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Proofpoint Insider Threat Management

66Judge labels
5First choices
14Negative labels
13 / 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
4% in Insider risk for mid-market buyers
Rank 6 of 84 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 27 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Proofpoint Insider Threat Management →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Proofpoint Insider Threat Management 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Insider risk managementSecurity operations4%6 of 8419%27accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Proofpoint Insider Threat Management 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 Proofpoint Insider Threat Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini12003
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast11125
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K202114
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna02002
Muse Glimmer 30B01113

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
Direct13 labels3
Paraphrase12 labels2
Comparative21 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative66 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.

“Balanced mid-market pick: Proofpoint or Code42 Incydr for proven detection without overkill” Grok 4.1 Fast · Insider risk · direct prompt · first choice
“my default recommendation would be Proofpoint Insider Threat Management” GPT-5.4 mini · Insider risk · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“A solution to detect and respond to insider risks by providing visibility into user behavior across endpoints, email, and cloud applications” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Insider risk · direct prompt · alternative
“is a solid enterprise alternative, but pricing is typically quote-based and often less budget-friendly upfront” GPT-5.4 mini · Insider risk · budget 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.

“Potential concerns: Ecosystem dependency (Proofpoint suite), may be less suited for non-Proofpoint environments; session recording can raise privacy concerns.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Insider risk · negative prompt · soft negative
“Invasive monitoring (e.g., keystroke logging, screen recording in DTEX or Proofpoint ObserveIT) raises legal/ethical concerns” Grok 4.1 Fast · Insider risk · negative prompt · soft negative
“screen recording in DTEX or Proofpoint ObserveIT) raises legal/ethical concerns under GDPR, HIPAA” Grok 4.1 Fast · Insider risk · negative prompt · soft negative
“~$75K+ starting | Strong session recording... | Higher cost, longer deployment” Kimi K2 · Insider risk · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Proofpoint Insider Threat Management, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proofpoint Insider Threat Management was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
DTEX InTERCEPT26 of 646Not among the top eight
Varonis Data Security Platform24 of 642Not among the top eight
DTEX Systems23 of 643Not among the top eight
Securonix UEBA18 of 640Not among the top eight
Forcepoint DLP14 of 640Not among the top eight
Gurucul13 of 640Not 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 Proofpoint Insider Threat Management. 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 61 of the 64 answers that named Proofpoint Insider Threat Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com37
insiderisk.io33
learn.microsoft.com33
nightfall.ai28
proofpoint.comYour site26
breachsense.com25
dtex.ai24
guptadeepak.com24
exabeam.com23
peerspot.com22

249 of the 275 domain citations in answers naming Proofpoint Insider Threat Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Proofpoint Insider Threat Management stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
140 a month (“proofpoint insider threat management”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
1 a month
Its own site
It sits on Proofpoint's site (proofpoint.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
4%
rank 6 of 84 in insider risk
Segment leader
22%
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
First choices
5 across its categories
Named in
64 answers
Its own site cited
in 61 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 Insider Threat Management

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Proofpoint Insider Threat Management; a claim can dispute any of them.
Proofpoint ObserveIT 5Proofpoint Insider Threat 1Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ITM / Formerly ObserveIT) 1Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ObserveIT) 1Proofpoint Insider Threat Management, formerly ObserveIT 1

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The company

Proofpoint is the company behind Proofpoint Insider Threat Management.
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In its own words

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Positioning
Detecte usuários de risco, investigue incidentes e previna a perda de dados com soluções de gerenciamento de ameaças internas em endpoints, nuvem, e-mail, Web e GenAI.
Free plan or trial
Solicite uma demonstração proofpoint.com/br/products/insider-threat-management
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Proofpoint Insider Threat Management's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: proofpoint.com/br/products/insider-threat-management, proofpoint.com/br/solutions/combat-data-loss-and-insider-risk, proofpoint.com/it/products/premium-security-services/insider-threat-management-services, proofpoint.com/jp/resources/solution-briefs/endpoint-data-loss-prevention-and-insider-threat-management. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Proofpoint Insider Threat Management 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 Insider Threat Management, 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;
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