Every category where a model named Barracuda Email Protection 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
Email security	Security operations	7%	7 of 71	6%	34	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Barracuda Email Protection yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Barracuda Email Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	2	0	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	2	1	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	1	1	1	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	1	0	3
Kimi K2	1	1	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	2	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct14 labels3

Paraphrase10 labels1

Comparative16 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained16 labels3

Scale-constrained9 labels1

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative75 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 9 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.

“Barracuda Email Protection has solidified its position as the top choice for mid-sized enterprises” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Email security · comparative prompt · first choice

“The best email security platform for a mid-market B2B company is Barracuda Email Protection” Llama 4 Maverick · Email security · direct prompt · first choice

“Proofpoint Essentials and Barracuda Email Protection are top recommendations” Mistral Small · Email security · direct prompt · first choice

“has solidified its position as the top choice for mid-sized enterprises” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Email security · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“Barracuda faced a major security incident involving a zero-day vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway appliances... raised concerns about the platform's security and reliability” Mistral Small · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

“a Reddit discussion specifically flags Barracuda as having security issues, but that is anecdotal and not a formal audit” Perplexity Sonar · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Barracuda Email Protection, over the 75 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda Email Protection was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proofpoint Email Protection64 of 7510Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Office 36562 of 7526Not in the top three

Mimecast Email Security54 of 754Not in the top three

Abnormal AI46 of 755Not in the top three

IRONSCALES37 of 7511Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration29 of 754Not in the top three

SpamTitan18 of 753Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Email18 of 750Not in the top three

Sophos Email12 of 750Not in the top three

Sublime Security10 of 750Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Protection. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 68 of the 75 answers that named Barracuda Email Protection and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com52

expertinsights.com35

ironscales.com30

sublime.security28

kaseya.com27

cybervendorguide.com25

simplyit.biz25

barracuda.comYour site24

learn.g2.com23

huntress.com18

263 of the 287 domain citations in answers naming Barracuda Email Protection came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security51

kaseya.com/blog/best-email-security-solutions27

ironscales.com/blog/the-best-email-security-companies-rankings-and-reviews26

expertinsights.com/email-security/top-email-security-gateways25

simplyit.biz/resources/email-security-platforms-small-business-202625

cybervendorguide.com/guides/email-security24

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-email-security-platforms23

consilien.com/news/best-email-security-solutions-small-business-202617

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Barracuda Email Protection

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Barracuda Email Protection; a claim can dispute any of them.

Barracuda 17Barracuda Email Security 3Barracuda Email 1

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