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Kaspersky

9Judge labels
1First choices
5Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Kaspersky was named 3 times in Client-side protection, where cside led with 13%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In client-side 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 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Client-side protectionSecurity operations0%119 of 12067%3under 10 labels · led by cside at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Kaspersky 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 Kaspersky across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct3 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“historically used by Avast, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, and others) that intercept and decrypt secure HTTPS web traffic” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client-side protection · negative prompt · hard negative
“Banned in the US due to alleged ties to the Russian government. Multiple privacy scandals” Kimi K2 · Client-side protection · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Kaspersky, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kaspersky was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint4 of 90Not among the top eight
Norton4 of 90Not among the top eight
1Password3 of 91Not among the top eight
Bitwarden3 of 91Not among the top eight
Bitdefender3 of 90Not among the top eight
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint3 of 90Not among the top eight
Zscaler3 of 90Not among the top eight
uBlock Origin2 of 91Not among the top eight
Avast Business2 of 90Not among the top eight
Cloudflare2 of 90Not 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 Kaspersky. 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 6 of the 9 answers that named Kaspersky and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

kaspersky.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Kaspersky takes 0% of first choices and cside takes 13%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “client-side protection tool”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “client-side protection tools”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
18,100 a month (“kaspersky”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
2,386 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 1,377,058 a month
Searches its site ranks for
90,952 · 6,760 in the top three
Sites linking to it
86,552
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
36 ads · 20 image, 16 video · 31 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2025, as Kaspersky Lab Switzerland GMBH, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 32 in the year, 4 before. 19 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 119 of 120 in client-side protection
Segment leader
13%
cside
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
9 answers
Its own site cited
in 6 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 kaspersky.com
9,209
subdomains included
Content
5,989
counted in the table below
Documentation
13
Product · Integration
60 · 31
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog4,545102026-09-28DDoS
Glossary or explainer72102024-07-17MDR, XDR
News or press401122026-09-23SIEM, MDR
Case study8602024-02-05
Report or ebook8402026-03-04DDoS, MDR
Comparison5302026-01-21
Conference or event5102026-04-09
Podcast or video3102025-06-17
Template or tool902026-01-29
Webinar or virtual event802022-12-26

Events in person

Last twelve months

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

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Every page kaspersky.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.

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The company

Kaspersky is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Cybersecurity solutions and services for individuals, small businesses and enterprises.
For
individuals, small businesses and enterprises
Hosting
on-premisesin the cloudKaspersky malware analysis infrastructure
Customers named
Faysal BankEnvision EnergyCleopatra Hospitals GroupTEKMCF/MCC EKI SarajevoAfCONPJSC NornickelNeohype
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications

What Kaspersky's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: kaspersky.com, kaspersky.com/enterprise-security/wiki-section/products/sandbox, kaspersky.com/enterprise-security/resources/case-studies, kaspersky.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Kaspersky 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 Kaspersky, 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;
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