Every category where a model named Imperva Client-Side Protection 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
Client-side protection	Security operations	2%	10 of 120	10%	20	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Imperva Client-Side Protection 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 Imperva Client-Side Protection 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	2	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct19 labels6

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative25 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative64 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 11 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.

“Imperva Client-Side Protection stands out as one of the top choices for a mid-market B2B company” Grok 4.1 Fast · Client-side protection · direct prompt · first choice

“Imperva Client-Side Protection monitors all third-party JavaScript running on sites, detecting and blocking malicious activity in real-time” Muse Glimmer 30B · Client-side protection · comparative prompt · alternative

“listed in the client-side protection category as a solution that monitors all third-party JavaScript running on sites” Muse Glimmer 30B · Client-side protection · direct prompt · alternative

“Imperva Client-Side Protection if you already lean toward Imperva/Thales for broader web app security” GPT-5.4 mini · Client-side protection · 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.

“Avoid: Enterprise solutions like Akamai, Imperva, or Feroot” Kimi K2 · Client-side protection · budget prompt · hard negative

“compared to enterprise solutions like Akamai or Imperva” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Client-side protection · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Imperva Client-Side Protection, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva Client-Side Protection was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Jscrambler Webpage Integrity40 of 643Compare →

cside32 of 6413Compare →

Source Defense30 of 645Compare →

Reflectiz30 of 642Compare →

Cloudflare Page Shield23 of 642Not among the top eight

Feroot PaymentGuard19 of 643Compare →

Feroot Security16 of 643Not among the top eight

HUMAN Security15 of 641Not among the top eight

Akamai13 of 640Not among the top eight

Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance9 of 642Not 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 Imperva Client-Side Protection. 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 64 of the 64 answers that named Imperva Client-Side Protection and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cside.com57

us.fitgap.com48

g2.com47

sourceforge.net34

geeksframework.com33

startupstash.com32

slashdot.org30

imperva.comYour site29

topbusinesssoftware.com29

f6s.com19

329 of the 358 domain citations in answers naming Imperva Client-Side Protection came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cside.com/blog/top-client-side-security-tools-full-guide54

g2.com/categories/client-side-protection41

geeksframework.com/software/client-side-protection-solutions33

startupstash.com/top-client-side-protection-tools32

imperva.com/products/client-side-protection-csp25

us.fitgap.com/search/client-side-protection-solutions/enterprise24

us.fitgap.com/search/client-side-protection-solutions18

cside.com/blog/best-digital-skimming-protection17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

imperva.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Imperva Client-Side Protection takes 2% of first choices and cside takes 13%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “client-side protection tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “client-side protection tools”

Searches for its name, Google: 30 a month (“imperva client-side protection”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2 a month
Its company's site: imperva.com shared with Imperva's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 417,309 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 20,176 · 3,001 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 21,050
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 10 of 120 in client-side protection

Segment leader

13%

cside

First choices: 6 across its categories
Named in: 64 answers
Its own site cited: in 64 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.

Names read as Imperva Client-Side Protection

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Imperva Client-Side Protection; a claim can dispute any of them.

Imperva 7Imperva (formerly Incapsula) 1Imperva Client-Side Protection (CSP) 1

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The company

Imperva is the company behind Imperva Client-Side Protection.

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On record

Company records

Also from Imperva: Imperva API Security, Imperva Advanced Bot Management, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, Imperva Application Security Platform, Imperva Bot Management, Imperva Bot Protection

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Protect against data theft and malicious JavaScript. Designed to meet the needs of businesses aiming to comply with PCI DSS 4.0 standards while defending against client-side attacks and ensuring the security of sensitive customer data.
imperva.com/products/client-side-protection-csp
For: businesses aiming to comply with PCI DSS 4.0 standards; security teams
imperva.com/products/client-side-protection-csp
Price stated: Pricing varies based on customer needs. Contact for a custom quote. imperva.com/products/client-side-protection-csp
Free plan or trial: Free trial imperva.com/products/client-side-protection-csp
Certifications: PCI compliantPCI DSS 4.0
Customers named: Top 3 US Retailer
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting

What Imperva Client-Side Protection's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: imperva.com/products/client-side-protection-csp, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/imperva-client-side-protection, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/infographics/the-client-side-threat-landscape, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/solution-briefs/client-side-protection-for-pci-dss-4-0-compliance, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/white-papers/the-role-of-client-side-protection-in-modern-application-security. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Imperva Client-Side Protection 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 Imperva Client-Side Protection, 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.