IT AI Index

Index › Vendors › Digital Guardian · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Digital Guardian

19Judge labels

0First choices

6Negative labels

10 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

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Digital Guardian was named 6 times in DLP, where Microsoft Purview DLP led with 39%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business64 of 68

under the label threshold

Mid-market17 of 84

under the label threshold

Enterprise12 of 51

under the label threshold

In dlp · 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 Digital Guardian 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
Data loss prevention	Security operations	0%	17 of 84	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 39%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Digital Guardian 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 Digital Guardian 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	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	2
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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 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.

“Digital Guardian is the industry standard for Endpoint DLP” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DLP · direct prompt · alternative

“The Best for Endpoint & File Protection: Digital Guardian” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DLP · paraphrase 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.

“while the technology is capable, it is often criticized for its complexity” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DLP · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Digital Guardian, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Digital Guardian was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Purview DLP15 of 198Not in the top three

Symantec Data Loss Prevention15 of 191Not in the top three

Forcepoint DLP15 of 190Not in the top three

Proofpoint Enterprise DLP9 of 190Not in the top three

Netskope DLP8 of 190Not in the top three

Zscaler8 of 190Not in the top three

Nightfall AI7 of 190Not in the top three

Cyberhaven5 of 190Not in the top three

Trellix DLP5 of 190Not in the top three

Safetica4 of 190Not 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 Digital Guardian. 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 12 of the 19 answers that named Digital Guardian and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

strac.io9

underdefense.com9

forcepoint.com8

gartner.com8

currentware.com6

miniorange.com6

proofpoint.com6

cyberhaven.com4

fortra.com4

g2.com4

Sixty-four of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming Digital Guardian came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

underdefense.com/blog/dlp-solutions9

gartner.com/reviews/market/data-loss-prevention8

forcepoint.com/blog/insights/best-dlp-software7

currentware.com/blog/best-data-loss-prevention-software6

miniorange.com/blog/top-data-loss-prevention-tools5

proofpoint.com/us/industry-comparison/dlp4

strac.io/blog/top-data-loss-prevention-dlp-tools4

decryptiondigest.com/blog/dlp-tools-comparison3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Digital Guardian

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

Digital Guardian (Now Fortra) 1

Is this your product?

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 Digital Guardian'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 Digital Guardian, 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 digitalguardian.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.