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Barracuda Security Awareness Training

2Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Barracuda Security Awareness Training was named 1 time in Awareness training, where KnowBe4 led with 42%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business44 of 50

under the label threshold

Mid-market38 of 65

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In awareness training · 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 Security Awareness Training 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
Security awareness training	Security operations	0%	38 of 65	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by KnowBe4 at 42%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Barracuda Security Awareness Training 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 Security Awareness Training across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Barracuda Security Awareness Training, 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 Security Awareness Training was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

KnowBe42 of 21Not in the top three

Cofense1 of 20Not in the top three

CybeReady1 of 20Not in the top three

Hoxhunt1 of 20Not in the top three

Infosec IQ1 of 20Not in the top three

MetaCompliance1 of 20Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender ecosystem-based training1 of 20Not in the top three

Mimecast Engage1 of 20Not in the top three

NINJIO1 of 20Not in the top three

Nimblr1 of 20Not 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 Security Awareness Training. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Barracuda Security Awareness Training and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

knowbe4.com2

adaptivesecurity.com1

cotocus.com1

expertinsights.com1

g2.com1

gartner.com1

guardey.com1

hooksecurity.co1

kindssecurity.com1

learn.microsoft.com1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Barracuda Security Awareness Training came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/best-security-awareness-training-small-businesses1

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/security-awareness-training-small-business1

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-security-awareness-training-platforms-features-pros-cons-compariso1

expertinsights.com/security-awareness-training/the-top-alternatives-to-knowbe41

g2.com/products/cybeready-security-awareness-training-platform/reviews1

g2.com/products/knowbe4-security-awareness-training/reviews1

g2.com/products/nimblr-security-awareness/reviews1

gartner.com/reviews/market/security-awareness-computer-based-training1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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