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Check Point Harmony

4Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Check Point Harmony was named 4 times in Email security and 1 other category, where Microsoft Defender for Office 365 led with 31%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market11 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

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 Check Point Harmony 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	2%	11 of 71	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	35 of 99	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
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	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 label1

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

“Highly rated by mid-market users. Offers inline API protection ... and very strong pricing.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · scale prompt · first choice

“Check Point Harmony (100% MITRE)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Endpoint protection · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Check Point Harmony, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point Harmony was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Abnormal AI3 of 41Not in the top three

Mimecast Email Security3 of 41Not in the top three

Proofpoint Email Protection3 of 41Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Protection2 of 40Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration2 of 40Not in the top three

IRONSCALES2 of 40Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Office 3652 of 40Not in the top three

Bitdefender1 of 41Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Email1 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Endpoint1 of 40Not 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 Harmony. 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 3 of the 4 answers that named Check Point Harmony and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com3

barracuda.com2

costbench.com2

crn.com2

cybervendorguide.com2

learn.g2.com2

proofpoint.com2

scribd.com2

acsmi.org1

aimultiple.com1

Nineteen of the nineteen domain citations in answers naming Check Point Harmony came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

crn.com/news/security/2024/6-security-vendors-named-leaders-in-gartner-s-inaugural-email-s2

cybervendorguide.com/guides/email-security2

gartner.com/en/documents/60193352

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security2

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-email-security-platforms2

scribd.com/document/858879749/Gartner-MQ-Email-Security-Dec20242

acsmi.org/blogs/state-of-endpoint-security-2025-original-data-on-solutions-effectiveness1

aimultiple.com/email-security-solutions1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Check Point Harmony

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

Check Point Harmony/Avanan 1

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