Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 57 of 71, unchanged
1 category · Named, not rankedBarracuda Email Gateway Defense
2Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative labels
2 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
2 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense was named 2 times in Email security, where Microsoft Defender for Office 365 led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market54 of 76
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In email security · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Barracuda Email Gateway Defense for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email security | Security operations | 0% | 54 of 76 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 32% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Barracuda Email Gateway Defense held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Email security · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 54 of 76, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Barracuda Email Gateway Defense across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Barracuda Email Gateway Defense across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“migrate to Barracuda Email Gateway Defense cloud if you are a Barracuda customer” Muse Glimmer 30B · Email security · negative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid if privacy is paramount—e.g., Barracuda had incidents exposing customer data” Grok 4.1 Fast · Email security · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Barracuda Email Gateway Defense, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda Email Gateway Defense was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Barracuda Email Gateway Defense, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda Email Gateway Defense was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Barracuda Email Gateway Defense. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Barracuda Email Gateway Defense and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
gartner.com2
scribd.com2
security.org2
upguard.com2
abnormal.ai1
adaptivesecurity.com1
allaboutcookies.org1
assets.barracuda.comYour site1
av-comparatives.org1
av-test.org1
Thirteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Barracuda Email Gateway Defense came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
barracuda.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Barracuda Email Gateway Defense takes 0% of first choices and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
barracuda.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Barracuda Email Gateway Defense takes 0% of first choices and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “email security platform”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “email security platforms”
8
- Organic visits to its site
- about 64,778 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,391 · 659 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 12,916
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 54 of 76 in email security
Segment leader
32%
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 2 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 2 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on barracuda.com
10,000
subdomains included
Content
5,051
counted in the table below
Documentation
27
Product · Integration
376 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 4,766 | 244 | 2026-12-01 | Email security, XDR | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 115 | 0 | 2025-12-01 | SD-WAN, XDR | |
| Glossary or explainer | 70 | 2 | 2026-07-01 | SASE, RMM | |
| Comparison | 27 | 0 | 2026-06-01 | Email security | |
| Report or ebook | 22 | 0 | 2024-02-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 21 | 0 | 2023-08-01 | ||
| Case study | 14 | 4 | 2026-08-01 | Email security | |
| Template or tool | 8 | 0 | 2024-04-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 5 | 2 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| News or press | 3 | 0 | 2022-03-01 |
Most recent
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Every page barracuda.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Barracuda Email Gateway Defense is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Barracuda Email Gateway Defense is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- A complete email security solution that delivers AI-enhanced defenses, automated response and easy deployment.
- For
- businesses
- Free plan or trial
- free Barracuda Email Threat Scan de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Barracuda Email Gateway Defense's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection, de.blog.barracuda.com/category/email-protection, blog.barracuda.com/Series/series--email-security-excellence, de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection/msp, de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection/plans. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Barracuda Email Gateway Defense by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Barracuda Email Gateway Defense is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Barracuda Email Gateway Defense, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.