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1 category · Named, not ranked

Darktrace EMAIL

4Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

4 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Darktrace EMAIL was named 2 times in Email security, 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 business37 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market25 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprise35 of 47

under the label threshold

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 Darktrace EMAIL 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	0%	25 of 71	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Darktrace EMAIL 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 Darktrace EMAIL 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	0	0
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	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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 Darktrace EMAIL, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Darktrace EMAIL was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Office 3654 of 42Not in the top three

Mimecast Email Security4 of 41Not in the top three

Proofpoint Email Protection4 of 41Not in the top three

Abnormal AI4 of 40Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Protection4 of 40Not in the top three

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

Cisco Secure Email2 of 40Not in the top three

Google Workspace2 of 40Not in the top three

Sublime Security2 of 40Not in the top three

Cloudflare1 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 Darktrace EMAIL. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Darktrace EMAIL and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com3

abnormal.ai2

forrester.com2

g2.com2

ironscales.com2

kaseya.com2

proofpoint.com2

rfp.wiki2

scribd.com2

sublime.security2

Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Darktrace EMAIL came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security3

gartner.com/en/documents/60193352

kaseya.com/blog/best-email-security-solutions2

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

abnormal.ai/blog/email-risk-mergers-acquisitions1

abnormal.ai/newsroom/press-releases/abnormal-named-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-leader-emai1

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/enterprise-email-security-the-complete-guide1

aegisai.ai/blog/how-to-evaluate-email-security-vendors1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Darktrace EMAIL

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

Darktrace email 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Darktrace EMAIL's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Darktrace EMAIL, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at darktrace.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.