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Microsoft Defender · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Microsoft Defender for Containers

12Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

7 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Defender for Containers was named 4 times in Container security, where Aqua Security led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business18 of 62

under the label threshold

Mid-market17 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise8 of 63

under the label threshold

In container security · 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 Microsoft Defender for Containers 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
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	17 of 78	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
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	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

“Predominantly run on Azure and want native integration | Microsoft Defender for Containers” MiniMax M2.5 · Container security · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best if you're already in the Microsoft/Azure ecosystem.” GPT-5.4 mini · Container security · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Defender for Containers, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Defender for Containers was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Aqua Security9 of 124Not in the top three

Snyk9 of 121Not in the top three

Trivy8 of 123Not in the top three

SUSE NeuVector7 of 120Not in the top three

Falco6 of 122Not in the top three

Sysdig Secure6 of 122Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud6 of 120Not in the top three

Kubescape5 of 121Not in the top three

Sysdig4 of 121Not in the top three

Aikido Security3 of 121Not 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 Microsoft Defender for Containers. 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 11 of the 12 answers that named Microsoft Defender for Containers and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com10

cyberpress.org8

cybersecuritynews.com8

decryptiondigest.com5

expertinsights.com4

ox.security4

getmonetizely.com3

vcso.ai3

aikido.dev2

azure.microsoft.comYour site2

Forty-seven of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Defender for Containers came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-container-security-compared10

cyberpress.org/container-security-by-business-size-28

cybersecuritynews.com/best-container-security-tools8

decryptiondigest.com/blog/guide-finding-best-container-security-tools5

expertinsights.com/application-security/the-top-container-security-tools4

ox.security/blog/container-security-solutions-in-20264

cyberpress.org/cwpp-solutions-by-business-size-23

gbhackers.com/best-kubernetes-security-compared3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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