Every category where a model named Check Point CloudGuard 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
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	20 of 57	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	15 of 53	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%
SASE platforms	Network and edge	0%	18 of 43	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cato SASE Cloud at 28%
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0%	76 of 87	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 55%

Movement

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

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative17 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“ThreatCloud AI risk scoring + unified network & cloud security | Check Point CloudGuard” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Dome9 (now part of Check Point) - Has free tier options” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CSPM · budget prompt · alternative

“Legacy Check Point shops | Check Point CloudGuard” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · comparative 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.

“solid tools but are sometimes viewed as slower to innovate compared to modern, cloud-native upstarts” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Complex/expensive setup, steep learning curve, overwhelming UI.” Grok 4.1 Fast · WAF · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Check Point CloudGuard, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point CloudGuard was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz35 of 3818Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud32 of 381Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud30 of 386Not in the top three

Orca Security26 of 381Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security21 of 380Not in the top three

Aqua Security17 of 381Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security13 of 380Not in the top three

Sysdig11 of 381Not in the top three

Tenable Cloud Security8 of 380Not in the top three

AWS Security Hub7 of 382Not 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 Check Point CloudGuard. 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 32 of the 38 answers that named Check Point CloudGuard and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org19

expertinsights.com19

gbhackers.com17

cybersecuritynews.com16

peerspot.com10

uptycs.com10

cloudaware.com9

decryptiondigest.com9

gartner.com8

guptadeepak.com8

125 of the 125 domain citations in answers naming Check Point CloudGuard came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-cloud-native-application-protection-platfo14

cyberpress.org/cnapp-platforms-by-business-size-213

gbhackers.com/best-cnapp-compared13

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cnapp-platforms11

uptycs.com/hubfs/80848LeadershipCompassCNAPP.pdf9

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-10-cnapp-solutions-20268

peerspot.com/categories/cloud-native-application-protection-platforms-cnapp8

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Check Point CloudGuard

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

Check Point 1Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP 1Dome9 1

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