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Index › Vendors › Symantec Email Security.cloud · September 2026 Edition

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Symantec Email Security.cloud

6Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

3 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Symantec Email Security.cloud was named 1 time 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 business45 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market60 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprise47 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 Symantec Email Security.cloud 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%	60 of 71	100%	1	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 Symantec Email Security.cloud 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 Symantec Email Security.cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	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

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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“Security teams are actively migrating away from Symantec\u2019s legacy cloud gateway to avoid these integration hurdles and rising costs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Symantec Email Security.cloud, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Symantec Email Security.cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cisco Secure Email5 of 60Not in the top three

Abnormal AI4 of 62Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration4 of 61Not in the top three

Google Workspace4 of 60Not in the top three

Barracuda Email Protection3 of 60Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Office 3653 of 60Not in the top three

Mimecast Email Security3 of 60Not in the top three

Proofpoint Email Protection3 of 60Not in the top three

IRONSCALES2 of 61Not in the top three

Microsoft 3652 of 60Not 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 Symantec Email Security.cloud. 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 3 of the 6 answers that named Symantec Email Security.cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

abnormal.ai2

forrester.com2

gartner.com2

ironscales.com2

proofpoint.com2

scribd.com2

sublime.security2

adaptivesecurity.com1

aimultiple.com1

appgate.com1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming Symantec Email Security.cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/en/documents/60193352

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security2

proofpoint.com/au/blog/email-and-cloud-threats/automotive-enterprise-strengthens-api-secur2

scribd.com/document/858879749/Gartner-MQ-Email-Security-Dec20242

sublime.security/articles/enterprise-email-security-solutions2

abnormal.ai/blog/email-risk-mergers-acquisitions1

abnormal.ai/resources/analyst-research/forrester-wave-email-security1

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/enterprise-email-security-the-complete-guide1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Symantec Email Security.cloud

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

Symantec Email Security.cloud (Broadcom) 1

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