Every category where a model named Proofpoint Enterprise DLP 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
Data loss prevention	Security operations	0%	11 of 84	11%	19	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	0	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	3	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	1	3

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

Direct7 labels1

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative22 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative12 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Strong cloud-native and SaaS-focused options (e.g., Netskope, Strac, Forcepoint, Proofpoint, Mimecast) may fit better.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DLP · scale prompt · alternative

“Industry-leading email DLP; pricing is quote-based, but often the most cost-effective choice for email-heavy shops.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DLP · budget prompt · alternative

“Proofpoint is superior when investigating "insider threats" and managing complex email workflows.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DLP · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best if email security and content controls are a top priority: Proofpoint Enterprise DLP” GPT-5.4 mini · DLP · direct 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.

“Many users report outdated user interface... High false positive rates initially” MiniMax M2.5 · DLP · negative prompt · soft negative

“Strengths: Strong in cloud DLP and user analytics. - Weaknesses: Expensive.” Mistral Small · DLP · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Proofpoint Enterprise DLP, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proofpoint Enterprise DLP was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Forcepoint DLP51 of 557Not in the top three

Microsoft Purview DLP47 of 5517Not in the top three

Symantec Data Loss Prevention42 of 552Not in the top three

Netskope DLP27 of 551Not in the top three

Cyberhaven23 of 551Not in the top three

Nightfall AI19 of 550Not in the top three

Safetica17 of 551Not in the top three

Zscaler17 of 550Not in the top three

Strac11 of 553Not in the top three

Trellix DLP11 of 550Not 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 Proofpoint Enterprise DLP. 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 50 of the 55 answers that named Proofpoint Enterprise DLP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com41

strac.io33

forcepoint.com31

underdefense.com27

learn.g2.com25

currentware.com24

miniorange.com23

proofpoint.comYour site23

cyberhaven.com21

safetica.com18

243 of the 266 domain citations in answers naming Proofpoint Enterprise DLP came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/data-loss-prevention40

forcepoint.com/blog/insights/best-dlp-software28

underdefense.com/blog/dlp-solutions26

learn.g2.com/best-data-loss-prevention-software25

currentware.com/blog/best-data-loss-prevention-software24

miniorange.com/blog/top-data-loss-prevention-tools21

safetica.com/resources/blogs/top-data-loss-prevention-software-in-202417

proofpoint.com/us/industry-comparison/dlp16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Proofpoint Enterprise DLP

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Proofpoint Enterprise DLP; a claim can dispute any of them.

Proofpoint 6Proofpoint DLP 2

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

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at proofpoint.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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