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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Defender for Cloud Apps

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, 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. Defender for Cloud Apps was named 2 times in AI security and 1 other category, where SentinelOne Singularity led with 11%. 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-market95 of 233

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In ai 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 Defender for Cloud Apps 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	Since September 2026
AI security platforms	Security operations	0%	95 of 233	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%
Microsoft 365 management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	86 of 149	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by CoreView at 20%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Defender for Cloud Apps across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“alongside Defender for Cloud Apps—not buy a separate “AI security platform” first” GPT-6 Luna · AI security · direct 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 Defender for Cloud Apps, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Defender for Cloud Apps was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Purview2 of 51Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender XDR2 of 50Not among the top eight

Bitdefender GravityZone Small Business Security1 of 51Not among the top eight

Cisco Umbrella1 of 51Not among the top eight

M365 Lighthouse1 of 51Not among the top eight

Augmentt1 of 50Not among the top eight

CIPP1 of 50Not among the top eight

Check Point AI Agent Security1 of 50Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Browser Isolation1 of 50Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Gateway1 of 50Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Defender for Cloud Apps. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 5 answers that named Defender for Cloud Apps and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.microsoft.com4

bitdefender.com1

blumira.com1

capterra.com1

cloudflare.com1

coreview.com1

docs.lakera.ai1

download.manageengine.com1

expertinsights.com1

facilitiesmanager.net1

No domain is on file for Defender for Cloud Apps, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

bitdefender.com/en-us/business/compare1

blumira.com/blog/protect-your-microsoft-365-ecosystem-from-third-party-app-risks1

capterra.com/p/227157/Microsoft-365/reviews1

cloudflare.com/products/browser-isolation1

coreview.com/blog/when-microsoft-365-admin-tools-become-the-attack-path1

coreview.com/blog/why-microsoft-365-security-demands-more-than-native-tools1

docs.lakera.ai/guard1

download.manageengine.com/active-directory-360/manage-and-protect-identities/iam-library/e1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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where Defender for Cloud Apps is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Defender for Cloud Apps, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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