- ESET’s upcoming AI security features, to be showcased at RSAC 2026, will protect the entire AI conversation flow by scanning both prompts and responses to reduce data exposure and compliance risks.
- Built as a browser security feature, it protects against malicious links, scripts and content generated by LLMs and prevents the uploading of sensitive and confidential data to public AI systems.
- ESET also presented its new endpoint security capabilities designed to protect AI personal assistants from attacks on the AI supply chain while providing a free, public ESET AI skill check to detect risky and malicious behavior of AI skills before they are deployed.
SAN DIEGO, April 2, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ESETa global leader in cybersecurity, today announced new AI protection capabilities designed to secure how employees interact with AI tools. The new feature, demonstrated at RSAC 2026 and launching later this year, will increase visibility into the ESET PROTECT platform to investigate emerging risks associated with everyday AI use and AI adoption across the enterprise.
“As businesses increasingly rely on AI for productivity and automation, they face increasing risks around exposure to sensitive data, regulatory violations and misleading results,” said Juraj Jánošík, director of artificial intelligence at ESET. “Agentic AI shifts the security battlefield back to the endpoint. ESET has spent more than 30 years building industry-leading endpoint protection powered by AI and machine learning, so we are uniquely positioned to help organizations secure this next wave of AI right where it begins.”
As AI tools become embedded in daily workflows, many employees are using open cloud chatbots without IT oversight, creating “shadow AI” risks and exposing sensitive data such as internal documents, API keys, secrets, and credentials. ESET tackles this through various technologies that get as close to the source as possible. One of these is a secure browser technology that intercepts AI interactions and analyzes both prompts and responses in real time, preventing data exposure and detecting malicious or misleading content before it impacts users.
During demonstrations at RSAC 2026, the new AI security feature flagged malicious URLs submitted through chatbot prompts, recording activity on the endpoint and bringing it to the ESET PROTECT platform for investigation. The same approach applies to quick injection attempts, scripts, and sensitive data input, allowing organizations to block or monitor activity based on policy. Security teams gain insight into how AI tools are used across the organization through logging on the ESET PROTECT Platform, allowing them to investigate risks and enforce policies more effectively.
As organizations expand their use of agentic AI tools, the attack surface is expanding beyond chatbot interactions to include emerging “AI supply chain” risks. These include compromised AI frameworks and tools, such as Trojan components in commonly used libraries such as LiteLLM, as well as autonomous agents such as OpenClaw that can perform actions on a system with limited supervision. ESET has already protected its customers from supply chain attacks via compromised libraries delivered through standard repositories, but is seeing an increase in these types of attacks and remains committed to further research and development related to AI tools.
As part of the wider AI security innovation, ESET has launched a free ESET AI Skills Checker at RSAC 2026. It is available to non-ESET customers and built on the same technology as ESET’s endpoint security products and ESET LiveGuard. The scanner analyzes AI skills for hidden instructions, malicious code and risky behavior using multi-layer inspection and cloud-based sandboxing. It is also currently available as a built-in feature for existing ESET Endpoint users.
For more than 30 years, ESET has pioneered lightweight, high-performance endpoint security powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. These new capabilities expand that foundation by helping organizations defend against today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, where cybercriminals are increasingly using AI to scale attacks, target employees and automate advanced social engineering.
As the only dedicated cybersecurity member of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), ESET is also working to secure emerging communication protocols for AI agents through collaboration with industry leaders such as OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft and Anthropic. Together, the group is working to establish reliable standards, secure protocol designs, and best practices for the interoperability of AI agents.
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