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Sophos · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Sophos Email

5Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sophos Email was named 1 time in Email security, where Microsoft Defender for Office 365 led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business51 of 66

under the label threshold

Mid-market51 of 76

under the label threshold

Enterprise50 of 61

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	Since September 2026
Email security	Security operations	0%	51 of 76	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 32%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Sophos Email held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Email security · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 15 → 41 of 56

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 14 → 46 of 71

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 15 → 50 of 58

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Email security	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 14 → 51 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 Sophos Email across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sophos Email, over the 5 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proofpoint Email Protection5 of 52Not among the top eight

Barracuda Email Protection5 of 50Not among the top eight

Mimecast Email Security4 of 51Not among the top eight

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration3 of 50Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender for Office 3653 of 50Not among the top eight

Abnormal AI2 of 50Not among the top eight

Appriver2 of 50Not among the top eight

IRONSCALES2 of 50Not among the top eight

SpamTitan2 of 50Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Email1 of 50Not 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 Sophos Email. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Sophos Email and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

barracuda.com4

ironscales.com4

checkpoint.com3

esecurityplanet.com3

expertinsights.com3

huntress.com3

adaptivesecurity.com2

baronmag.ca2

g2.com2

guardz.com2

Twenty-eight of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Sophos Email came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ironscales.com/blog/the-best-email-security-companies-rankings-and-reviews4

barracuda.com/support/glossary/best-email-security-companies3

checkpoint.com/cyber-hub/threat-prevention/what-is-email-security/email-security-software3

esecurityplanet.com/products/best-email-security-software3

baronmag.ca/2025/10/the-top-10-email-security-providers2

expertinsights.com/email-security/top-email-security-gateways2

g2.com/categories/cloud-email-security/small-business2

guardz.com/blog/best-email-security-for-msps2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Sophos Email 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: 70 a month (“sophos email”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 12 a month
Its own site: It sits on Sophos's site (sophos.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 51 of 76 in email security

Segment leader

32%

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 5 answers
Its own site cited: in 5 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 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 1

Follow Sophos Email

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

Sophos is the company behind Sophos Email.

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On record

Company records

Also from Sophos: Sophos Central, Sophos Endpoint, Sophos Endpoint / Intercept X, Sophos Firewall, Sophos Firewall XGS, Sophos ITDR, Sophos Intercept X, Sophos Intercept X + Sophos MDR and 15 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: This guide explains how to use the Email Clawback API. After reading this guide, you should be able to claw back messages in Sophos Email and get the message clawback status.
developer.sophos.com/email-clawback
For: Sophos partners
developer.sophos.com/email-clawback
Hosting: eu01eu02us01us03ca01au01jp01in01
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, customers

What Sophos Email's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: developer.sophos.com/email-clawback, developer.sophos.com/email-mailboxes, developer.sophos.com/email-quarantine, developer.sophos.com/email-post-delivery-quarantine, developer.sophos.com/reference/email-v1. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

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

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Sophos Email 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 Sophos Email, 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.