Every category where a model named Guardz 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
Digital risk protection	Security operations	12%	3 of 86	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by UpGuard BreachSight at 22%
Identity threat detection and response	Identity and access	0%	34 of 105	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Huntress Managed ITDR at 51%
Security awareness training	Security operations	0%	49 of 64	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by KnowBe4 at 45%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	0	1

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

Direct13 labels8

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative14 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained20 labels13

Scale-constrained4 labels1

Negative5 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative59 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 30 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.

“Guardz tends to be the most SMB-focused all-in-one DRP when you need brand protection, phishing/takedown assistance and dark web monitoring” Muse Glimmer 30B · DRP · budget prompt · first choice

“Guardz stands out as one of the strongest digital risk protection (DRP) platforms tailored for small businesses and MSPs.” Grok 4.20 · DRP · budget prompt · first choice

“For the most budget-constrained organizations, Guardz and Bolster appear to be the best starting points” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DRP · budget prompt · first choice

“then upgrade to Guardz ($5/month) when you need more comprehensive endpoint and email protection” Kimi K2 · DRP · budget prompt · first choice

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 Guardz, over the 59 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Guardz was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Recorded Future17 of 590Not among the top eight

ZeroFox17 of 590Not among the top eight

UpGuard BreachSight16 of 592Not among the top eight

PhishEye11 of 593Not among the top eight

Huntress Managed ITDR9 of 598Not among the top eight

Bolster8 of 591Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender for Office 3657 of 593Not among the top eight

Silverfort ITDR7 of 590Not among the top eight

Abnormal AI6 of 590Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike Falcon6 of 590Not 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 Guardz. 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 59 of the 59 answers that named Guardz and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com39

us.fitgap.com38

g2.com34

guideflow.com32

cyberpress.org31

guardz.comYour site30

upguard.com26

sourceforge.net25

cybersecuritynews.com24

slashdot.org20

269 of the 299 domain citations in answers naming Guardz came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

us.fitgap.com/search/digital-risk-protection-drp-platforms/small-business35

guideflow.com/blog/digital-risk-protection-software31

expertinsights.com/security-operations/top-digital-risk-protection-solutions27

upguard.com/blog/best-digital-risk-protection-drp-software-platforms-and-solutions23

cyberpress.org/best-digital-risk-protection-drp-platforms21

cybersecuritynews.com/best-digital-risk-protection-drp-platforms19

getapp.com/all-software/a/guardz14

g2.com/categories/digital-risk-protection-drp-platforms12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

guardz.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Guardz takes 12% of first choices and UpGuard BreachSight takes 22%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “digital risk protection platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “digital risk protection platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,900 a month (“guardz”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 27 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 5,351 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,057 · 102 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,153
Paid Google search: 6 searches its ads show for, about 10 clicks and $744 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 59 text, 43 image, 18 video · 12 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2024, as guardz cyber ltd, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 82 in the year, 38 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 3 of 86 in DRP

Segment leader

22%

UpGuard BreachSight

First choices: 23 across its categories
Named in: 59 answers
Its own site cited: in 59 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on guardz.com

634

subdomains included

Content

324

counted in the table below

Documentation

251

Product · Integration

11 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	288	11	2026-09-23	EDR, MDR
Comparison	13	2	2026-08-13	Email security
Template or tool	9	4	2026-09-16
Glossary or explainer	8	0	2025-02-25	MDR
Conference or event	4	undated
Webinar or virtual event	1	undated
Podcast or video	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-23What to include in an msp security bundle blog
2026-09-22Msp cybersecurity tool pricing comparison matrix blog
2026-09-16Msp client security onboarding checklist template or tool
2026-09-15Best itdr tools for msps blog
2026-09-09Best mdr for msps blog
2026-09-08Incident response plan template for msps blog

Events in person

Upcoming

November 4, 2026 to November 6, 2026IT Nation Connect Global 2026Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, USA · attends
November 11, 2026 to November 13, 2026SpiceWorld 2026Austin, USA

Last twelve months

October 21, 2026 to October 22, 2026MSP GlobalTBC
October 21, 2026 to October 22, 2026ASCII Edge Conference Series 2026San Antonio, USA
September 28, 2026 to September 30, 2026MSP Summit 2026Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando, USA
September 23, 2026 to September 24, 2026ASCII Edge Conference Series 2026Chicago, USA
September 9, 2026 to September 11, 2026CanITCon 2026Telus Convention Centre, Calgary, Canada
August 26, 2026 to August 27, 2026ASCII Edge Conference Series 2026Toronto, Canada
August 3, 2026 to August 5, 2026Build IT LIVE 2026Hyatt Regency, Jersey City, USA
July 22, 2026 to July 23, 2026ASCII Edge Conference Series 2026Washington, USA
July 12, 2026 to July 14, 2026XChange Security 2026Frisco, USA
June 7, 2026 to June 9, 2026Pax8 Beyond 2026Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, USA
May 27, 2026 to May 28, 2026ASCII Edge Conference Series 2026Seattle, USA
May 17, 2026 to May 19, 2026MSPGeekCon 2026Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, USA
May 4, 2026 to May 6, 2026NerdioCon 2026Palm Springs, USA
May 3, 2026 to May 7, 2026HDI Service & Support WorldCaesars Palace, Las Vegas, USA
April 27, 2026 to April 30, 2026Kaseya ConnectMGM Grand Resort, Las Vegas, USA
April 22, 2026 to April 23, 2026ASCII Edge Conference Series 2026Newark, USA
April 13, 2026 to April 16, 20262026 Channel Partners Conference & ExpoThe Venetian, Las Vegas, USA
April 13, 2026 to April 15, 2026N‑able EmpowerOmni Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, USA

As the event pages on guardz.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page guardz.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow Guardz

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Guardz is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Unified cybersecurity platform built for MSPs
guardz.com
For: MSPs
guardz.com
Price stated: No-Gotcha, All-Inclusive Pricing; Flexible Terms, Per-seat Pricing; Flexible, all-inclusive pricing guardz.com
Free plan or trial: 14-Day Free Trial guardz.com
Certifications: SOC 2 Type II Certified
Hosting: US, EU, AU Data Residency
Customers named: Elmdale IT ServicesCyber DistributionJones ITArkCybrS5 IT SolutionsTrusted Computing
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations

What Guardz's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: guardz.com, guardz.com/pricing, guardz.com/platform. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Guardz'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 Guardz, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Guardz by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Guardz 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 Guardz, 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;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Guardz is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Guardz is among the products AI models recommend first in Digital risk protection this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/digital-risk-protection/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/guardz--digital-risk-protection-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Digital risk protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/digital-risk-protection/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/guardz--digital-risk-protection-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

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Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/digital-risk-protection/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/guardz--digital-risk-protection-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Digital risk protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.