In Appreciation: ESET Founder Rudolf Hruby Passes Away (darkreading.com)
Rudolf Hruby, a founder and co-owner of Slovakian endpoint security vendor ESET, has died at the age of 69 of unknown causes. ESET was founded as a private enterprise in 1992 by Hruby, along with Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško, though its roots go back to 1987, when Czechoslovakia was still under communist rule; the team at that point created the first version of its antivirus product, NOD. In a [color=var(--color-brand-secondary-1)]message on X, formerly Twitter, ESET said: "For more than 30 years, we have been [color=var(--color-brand-secondary-1)]creating a safer digital world together with Rudolf. ESET will continue this mission." Hruby was also the majority shareholder of the HC Slovan Bratislava soccer team, which [color=var(--color-brand-secondary-1)]noted in a memoriam posting that Hrubý "was one of the most successful Slovak entrepreneurs in the era of independence."
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