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Sophos · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Sophos Email

17Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sophos Email was named 7 times in Email security, where Microsoft Defender for Office 365 led with 31%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business15 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprise15 of 47

under the label threshold

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 Sophos Email 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
Email security	Security operations	0%	15 of 71	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sophos Email 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 Sophos Email 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	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Sophos provides an excellent ecosystem for SMBs who want their firewall and email to communicate.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Email security · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Sophos Email Protection and SpamTitan offer the most competitive per‑user pricing” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Email security · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for Unified Security Stack Consolidation” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · direct prompt · alternative

“Best Bundle Value: Sophos Email Security” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Email security · 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.

“Sophos, AppRiver, others | Higher incident frequencies” Grok 4.1 Fast · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sophos Email, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos Email was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Office 36515 of 179Not in the top three

Proofpoint Email Protection15 of 172Not in the top three

Mimecast Email Security13 of 172Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Protection12 of 171Not in the top three

IRONSCALES8 of 172Not in the top three

Abnormal AI8 of 171Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration8 of 171Not in the top three

Google Workspace6 of 171Not in the top three

SpamTitan5 of 171Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Security Gateway3 of 170Not 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 Sophos Email. 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 15 of the 17 answers that named Sophos Email and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com11

ironscales.com8

ittoolsguide.com8

learn.g2.com8

trustcyberhub.com8

simplyit.biz7

esecurityplanet.com6

sublime.security6

barracuda.com5

consilien.com5

Seventy-two of the seventy-two domain citations in answers naming Sophos Email came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security11

ironscales.com/blog/the-best-email-security-companies-rankings-and-reviews8

ittoolsguide.com/email-security-software-for-small-business8

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-email-security-platforms8

trustcyberhub.com/best-email-security-solutions-for-smbs-in-2026-full-comparison8

simplyit.biz/resources/email-security-platforms-small-business-20267

esecurityplanet.com/products/best-email-security-software6

sublime.security/articles/top-email-security-companies6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Sophos Email

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

Sophos 4Sophos Email Protection 1Sophos Email Security 1

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