Stellar Cyber And ESET Bring Premium Threat Intelligence To AI-Driven Secops

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stellar Cyber, the leader in open AI-native security operations, today announced a strategic technology partnership with ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, to integrate ESET Threat Intelligence into the Stellar Cyber Open Threat Intelligence Platform. This major integration streamlines threat detection, investigation, and response for joint customers without the added burden of managing a separate threat intelligence platform. By operationalizing ESET’s premium threat intelligence directly within the Stellar Cyber Open AI-driven SecOps Platform, customers will unlock premium threat intelligence without traditionally associated costs.

As cyber threats continue to evolve in speed and sophistication, security operations teams need more than threat intelligence—they need intelligence that immediately improves detection outcomes. Through this partnership, organizations can leverage ESET's globally recognized threat research and high-confidence Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) to strengthen AI-driven security operations across network, endpoint, cloud, identity, SaaS, and security infrastructure.

Each day, ESET threat hunters analyze over 750,000 suspicious samples and 2.5 billion URLs – delivering real-world intelligence that enables organizations and service providers to anticipate and defend against global cyberattacks. Unlike traditional security platforms that use threat intelligence primarily to enrich alerts after they are generated, Stellar Cyber operationalizes threat intelligence during data ingestion. As telemetry enters the platform, it is immediately evaluated against ESET's continuously updated indicators—including malicious IP addresses, domains, URLs, file hashes, and other threat artifacts—creating context before AI analytics, correlation, investigations, and automated response begin. By applying intelligence at the earliest stage of the detection pipeline, organizations gain faster and higher-fidelity detections, richer context, improved alert prioritization, and faster investigations while reducing analyst workload.

"ESET has earned a global reputation for its highly actionable, curated threat intelligence, which cuts through the noise and provides real-world attack visibility from the cyber front lines," said Andrew Homer, Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Stellar Cyber. "By integrating ESET Threat Intelligence directly into our Open Threat Intelligence Platform, we're helping customers operationalize that intelligence where it delivers the greatest value—during data ingestion. Rather than simply enriching alerts after the fact, we enable intelligence to become part of the detection process itself, allowing organizations to detect threats earlier, investigate faster, and respond with greater confidence."

“AI is changing the scale of cyber risk, and organizations need threat intelligence that is both actionable and operational,” said Ryan Grant, Country Manager, U.S. and Canada, at ESET North America. “We are thrilled to expand on our existing partnership with Stellar Cyber - enabling customers to seamlessly incorporate ESET Threat Intelligence into their day-to-day security operations through an open, AI-driven SecOps platform. Together, we're helping security teams reduce operational complexity while improving the speed, accuracy, and confidence of threat detection and response."

The integration provides MSSPs and channel partners with an opportunity to incorporate curated threat intelligence into customer offerings, helping them enhance security services, demonstrate additional value, and support stronger customer outcomes. For MSSPs, it creates a foundation for richer, more differentiated managed security services - including premium threat-intelligence tiers, higher-fidelity detection, and faster investigation - helping providers deliver stronger customer outcomes without adding another standalone platform to operate.

Customers who license ESET Threat Intelligence can configure their credentials directly within Stellar Cyber's Open Threat Intelligence Platform, allowing premium intelligence to flow continuously into the platform without requiring additional infrastructure or standalone threat intelligence tools.

The partnership reflects both companies' shared commitment to openness, interoperability, and enabling organizations to maximize the value of their cybersecurity investments. For partners, that openness translates into the ability to assemble best-of-breed solutions around customer requirements; for MSSPs, it supports differentiated, intelligence-led services that can be operationalized efficiently across customers.

About Stellar Cyber
Stellar Cyber is a full-cycle AI-native SecOps platform purpose-built for MSSPs and lean enterprise security teams. Since 2015, Stellar Cyber has helped organizations illuminate the darkest corners of cybersecurity to see every threat, know what matters most, and act with speed and confidence — always with the human in the loop.

By applying the right tool to the right problem, Stellar Cyber combines machine learning to uncover hidden anomalies, agentic AI to guide responses in real time, and human-augmented decision-making where expertise is essential. The result is real-world impact: analyst productivity improved by more than 80%, false positives reduced by over 90%, and security teams free to focus on what matters. 

Stellar Cyber’s open SecOps platform unifies SIEM, NDR/OT, ITDR/UEBA, detection, investigation, triage, response, and Multi-Layer AI™ under one license. Stellar Cyber is trusted by one-third of the world’s top 250 MSSPs and over 15,000 organizations worldwide.

Learn more at stellarcyber.ai.

About ESET
ESET protects organizations, critical infrastructure, and individuals, helping them build digital resilience and confidence in an increasingly AI-driven world. With more than 35 years of cybersecurity expertise, over 25 years of AI innovation, and 11 global R&D centers, ESET develops proprietary technologies designed to protect against evolving cyber threats and secure the broader AI ecosystem. Grounded in scientific rigor and taking a preemptive approach to security, ESET delivers effortless protection that remains under expert human oversight. Headquartered in the European Union and privately owned, ESET protects millions of users and more than 500,000 organizations across 178 countries. Committed to responsible AI and customer trust, ESET protects the progress that technology enables. For more information, visit www.eset.com or follow ESET’s social media, podcasts, and blogs.

CONTACT: ESETMedia contact:
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Stellar Cyber Media Inquiries:
****Michelle Barry
Chameleon Collective for Stellar Cyber
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