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Netwrix · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Netwrix Auditor

7Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative labels

4 / 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Netwrix Auditor was named 4 times in Insider risk, where Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market14 of 84

under the label threshold

Enterprise12 of 85

under the label threshold

In insider risk · 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 Netwrix Auditor 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
Insider risk management	Security operations	2%	14 of 84	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management at 22%

Movement

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

Direct1 label1

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“I would recommend starting with Netwrix Auditor” MiniMax M2.5 · Insider risk · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Excellent for auditing Active Directory, files, and databases with anomaly detection. Budget-friendly for SMBs” Grok 4.1 Fast · Insider risk · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Strong for IT audit and compliance, especially if your focus is on change and access auditing” Mistral Small · Insider risk · paraphrase 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.

“Netwrix Auditor and others are called out for noise without governance.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Insider risk · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Netwrix Auditor, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Netwrix Auditor was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management4 of 71Not among the top eight

Exabeam4 of 70Not among the top eight

Code42 Incydr3 of 70Not among the top eight

Varonis Data Security Platform3 of 70Not among the top eight

SolarWinds Security Event Manager2 of 72Not among the top eight

DTEX Systems2 of 70Not among the top eight

Forcepoint DLP2 of 70Not among the top eight

Gurucul2 of 70Not among the top eight

Nightfall AI2 of 70Not among the top eight

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management2 of 70Not 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 Netwrix Auditor. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Netwrix Auditor and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gaugius.com7

nightfall.ai6

exabeam.com5

gartner.com4

insiderisk.io4

comparitech.com3

dtex.ai3

expertinsights.com3

gitnux.org3

livingsecurity.com3

Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming Netwrix Auditor came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gaugius.com/best/insider-threat-monitoring-software7

nightfall.ai/blog/top-10-insider-risk-management-products-of-20246

exabeam.com/explainers/insider-threats/best-insider-threat-solutions-top-5-options-how-to-5

gartner.com/reviews/market/insider-risk-management-solutions4

comparitech.com/net-admin/insider-threat-detection-tools3

expertinsights.com/data-security-and-privacy/the-top-insider-threat-detection-solutions3

insiderisk.io/research/insider-threat-detection-solutions-technologies-20253

livingsecurity.com/blog/top-insider-risk-management3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

netwrix.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Netwrix Auditor takes 2% of first choices and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management takes 22%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “insider risk management tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “insider risk management tools”

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not in the top ten

Its company's site: netwrix.com shared with Netwrix's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 104,208 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 17,554 · 1,072 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 7,338
Paid Google search: 4 searches its ads show for, about 67 clicks and $3,789 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 102 text, 11 image, 7 video · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2022, as Netwrix Corporation, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 70 in the year, 50 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 14 of 84 in insider risk

Segment leader

22%

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 7 answers
Its own site cited: in 7 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.

Follow Netwrix Auditor

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Netwrix is the company behind Netwrix Auditor.

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On record

Company records

Also from Netwrix: Netwrix ITDR, Netwrix PingCastle, Netwrix Threat Manager

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: a very useful and efficient auditing tool
community.netwrix.com/t/netwrix-auditor-9-5/115182
For: Organizations that are currently using Netwrix Auditor
community.netwrix.com/t/migration-of-audit-trail-from-netwrix-auditor/12243
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Netwrix Auditor's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: community.netwrix.com/t/netwrix-auditor-9-5/115182, community.netwrix.com/t/netwrix-auditor-integration/14994, community.netwrix.com/t/migration-of-audit-trail-from-netwrix-auditor/12243, community.netwrix.com/t/auditing-dell-powerstore-with-netwrix-auditor/109359, community.netwrix.com/t/last-logon-report-in-netwrix-enterprise-auditor/114789. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Netwrix Auditor'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 Netwrix Auditor, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where Netwrix Auditor 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 Netwrix Auditor, 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.