Small business▲+5Since September 2026: 6% → 11%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
11%from 6% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 56
Proofpoint · 1 category · RankedProofpoint Email Protection
179Judge labels
35First choices
29Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
48% in Email security for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 76 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 24% of its 59 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Proofpoint Email Protection →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business2 of 66
11%49 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 76
8%59 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise1 of 61
48%71 labels
endorsed leader
In email 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 Proofpoint Email Protection 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email security | Security operations | 8% | 5 of 76 | 24% | 59 | accepted challenger | ▼−5Since September 2026: 12% → 7%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Proofpoint Email Protection held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Email security · by segment
Mid-market▼−5Since September 2026: 12% → 7%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 3 → 6 of 71
Enterprise▲+7Since September 2026: 40% → 48%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
48%from 40% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 1 of 58, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email security | 12% | 7% | ▼−5Since September 2026: 12% → 7%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 5 of 76 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Proofpoint Email Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Proofpoint Email Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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
Direct38 labels15
Paraphrase30 labels15
Comparative37 labels16not counted in share
Budget-constrained29 labels3
Scale-constrained17 labels2
Negative28 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative179 labels in all, every segment counted; 35 of the 54 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.
“Proofpoint and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration are top choices due to their strong performance, scalability, and mid-market suitability.” Mistral Small · Email security · direct prompt · first choice
“Proofpoint Essentials is the most frequently cited "sized and priced for smaller environments" solution in 2026 vendor round-ups.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Email security · direct prompt · first choice
“Prioritize Gartner Leaders: Proofpoint, Abnormal Security, Mimecast... They score highest (4.4-4.8/5 on G2/Peer Insights)” Grok 4.20 · Email security · negative prompt · first choice
“Often positioned as a top choice for phishing, malware, spam, and data-loss protection in enterprise environments.” Perplexity Sonar · Email security · comparative prompt · first choice
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.
“the email security landscape has shifted heavily away from traditional, complex Secure Email Gateways (SEGs like traditional configurations of Proofpoint or Mimecast)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“The industry has largely moved away from legacy, complex Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) that require changing MX records (such as Proofpoint or Mimecast).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · direct prompt · soft negative
“some email providers, such as Proofpoint, rely on static rules and predefined regex expressions to identify sensitive data, which may not be effective” Llama 4 Maverick · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative
“Traditional gateways (like classic Mimecast or Proofpoint setups) ... don't scan internal-to-internal email (lateral movement)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Proofpoint Email Protection, over the 178 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proofpoint Email Protection was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Proofpoint Email Protection, over the 178 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proofpoint Email Protection was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Proofpoint Email Protection. 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 168 of the 178 answers that named Proofpoint Email Protection and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
expertinsights.com84
comparitech.com67
proofpoint.comYour site67
huntress.com65
kaseya.com65
g2.com64
ironscales.com64
gartner.com53
sublime.security47
checkpoint.com46
555 of the 622 domain citations in answers naming Proofpoint Email Protection came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
proofpoint.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Proofpoint Email Protection takes 8% of first choices and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
proofpoint.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Proofpoint Email Protection takes 8% of first choices and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “email security platform”
7
Position for “email security platforms”
4
- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“proofpoint email protection”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6 a month
- Its company's site
- proofpoint.com shared with Proofpoint's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 593,092 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 33,822 · 2,910 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 127,934
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 91 clicks and $9,336 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 5 of 76 in email security
Segment leader
32%
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- First choices
- 35 across its categories
- Named in
- 178 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 168 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.
Names read as Proofpoint Email Protection
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Proofpoint Email Protection; a claim can dispute any of them.
Proofpoint 37Proofpoint Essentials 10Proofpoint Core Email Protection 3Proofpoint (Trend Micro) 1
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The company
Proofpoint is the company behind Proofpoint Email Protection.ShowHide
The company
Proofpoint is the company behind Proofpoint Email Protection.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Core Email Protection; Get industry-leading threat protection via API or gateway
- For
- organizations
- Free plan or trial
- 데모 요청 proofpoint.com/kr/products/email-protection
- Customers named
- Fortune 100 ManufacturerGoosehead InsurancePerrigo
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Proofpoint Email Protection's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-wins-best-email-security-solution-2014-sc-awards, proofpoint.com/de/Proofpoint-erwirbt-dengeschaftsbereich-email-fraud-protection-von-Return-Path, proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-releases-enterprise-protection-suite-80-advances-email-security-leadership, proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-adds-next-generation-predictive-defense-targeted-attack-protection-solution, proofpoint.com/kr/products/email-protection. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Proofpoint Email Protection by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Proofpoint Email Protection 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 Proofpoint Email Protection, 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.