Microsoft Defender for DNS

Listed in the vendor table for DNS filtering. Not named in any of the 84 answers those categories produced in the October 2026 Edition: fourteen models, six prompts per category and segment, every question asked three times, on behalf of a small B2B company, a mid-market B2B company and an enterprise B2B company, with every standing computed within one segment.

Standing

Not named in 84 answers

Absence in a measured set of answers is a finding, not a verdict: it says the models did not reach for Microsoft Defender for DNS when asked these questions this month. The products they named instead are listed by category below.

By buyer segment

The same categories asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each share and rank is computed within its segment; the columns sit side by side and are never added together.

Category	Small business	Mid-market	Enterprise
DNS filtering	not named	not named	0% · 37 of 73 1 label

Where it was not named

Each category Microsoft Defender for DNS belongs to, the answers collected there, and who the models named first instead.

Category	Function	Named in	Named instead, first-choice share
DNS filtering	Network and edge	0 of 84	DNSFilter 59% · Cloudflare Gateway 22% · Cisco Umbrella 6%

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

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Microsoft Defender for DNS 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 Microsoft Defender for DNS, 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.