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1 category · Named, not ranked

Fortra DLP

15Judge labels

1First choices

8Negative labels

8 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. Fortra DLP 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 business62 of 68

under the label threshold

Mid-market81 of 84

under the label threshold

Enterprise7 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 Fortra DLP 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%	81 of 84	67%	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 Fortra DLP 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 Fortra DLP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“Fortra DLP is a strong budget-conscious alternative because it publishes tiered packages” GPT-5.4 mini · DLP · budget prompt · alternative

“Works when you want broad coverage, cross-platform endpoint support, and tiered packaging” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DLP · 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.

“Known as a "heavy" agent that can break compatibility with other software if not meticulously managed.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DLP · negative prompt · hard negative

“G2 reviews highlight slow dashboards/reporting, high costs, steep learning curves, difficult policy creation, and false positives.” Grok 4.1 Fast · DLP · negative prompt · soft negative

“Consider only if you have dedicated DLP administration resources and need deep endpoint file tracking for IP protection.” Kimi K2 · DLP · negative prompt · soft negative

“Heavy deployment / steep learning curve | ... Symantec DLP, Trellix DLP, Fortra DLP” Perplexity Sonar · DLP · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fortra DLP, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortra DLP was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Purview DLP13 of 154Not in the top three

Symantec Data Loss Prevention13 of 150Not in the top three

Forcepoint DLP11 of 150Not in the top three

Netskope DLP6 of 151Not in the top three

Safetica4 of 151Not in the top three

Nightfall AI4 of 150Not in the top three

Trellix DLP4 of 150Not in the top three

Cyberhaven3 of 150Not in the top three

Proofpoint Enterprise DLP3 of 150Not in the top three

Varonis3 of 150Not 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 Fortra DLP. 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 15 of the 15 answers that named Fortra DLP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com13

forcepoint.com8

g2.com8

currentware.com7

nightfall.ai6

reddit.com6

strac.io6

teramind.co6

decryptiondigest.com5

peerspot.com5

Seventy of the seventy domain citations in answers naming Fortra DLP came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/data-loss-prevention13

forcepoint.com/blog/insights/best-dlp-software8

currentware.com/blog/best-data-loss-prevention-software7

g2.com/products/fortra-dlp-formerly-digital-guardian/reviews7

decryptiondigest.com/blog/dlp-tools-comparison5

underdefense.com/blog/dlp-solutions5

g2.com/products/forcepoint-data-loss-prevention-dlp/reviews4

nightfall.ai/blog/forcepoint-dlp-comprehensive-review-and-top-alternatives4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Fortra DLP

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

Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) 2Fortra DLP (Formerly Digital Guardian) 1

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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 fortra.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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