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Kaspersky Endpoint Security

6Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

5 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Kaspersky Endpoint Security was named 2 times in Endpoint protection, where Microsoft Defender for Cloud led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business88 of 89

under the label threshold

Mid-market63 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In endpoint protection · 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 Kaspersky Endpoint Security 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
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	63 of 99	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Kaspersky Endpoint Security 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 Kaspersky Endpoint Security 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	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	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“Bitdefender and Kaspersky excel in detection accuracy per dollar.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Endpoint protection · comparative 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.

“Verdict: Do not use, especially for government or critical infrastructure” Kimi K2 · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Kaspersky Endpoint Security, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kaspersky Endpoint Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CrowdStrike Falcon5 of 61Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone5 of 60Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X4 of 60Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud3 of 63Not in the top three

SentinelOne3 of 61Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint3 of 60Not in the top three

Huntress2 of 60Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR2 of 60Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity2 of 60Not in the top three

Trellix (McAfee) Endpoint Security2 of 60Not 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 Kaspersky Endpoint Security. 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 5 of the 6 answers that named Kaspersky Endpoint Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com4

cnicsolutions.com3

g2.com3

peerspot.com3

selabs.uk3

capterra.com2

community.spiceworks.com2

cyberwise.almontsf.com2

gartner.com2

gbhackers.com2

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming Kaspersky Endpoint Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cnicsolutions.com/cybersecurity-threat-protection/detection-response/best-endpoint-protect3

cyberwise.almontsf.com/best-endpoint-protection-small-business2

gbhackers.com/best-business-antivirus-compared2

huntress.com/internal-it-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-for-small-businesses2

peerspot.com/categories/endpoint-protection-platform-epp2

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/13exdwa/endpoint_protection_screw_gartner_lets_get_hon2

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/18txj6h/done_with_mcafee_what_do_you_recommend_instead2

solutionsinsider.com/endpoint-security-solutions/top-endpoint-security-solutions-for-smbs2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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