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Index › Vendors › Symantec Endpoint Protection · September 2026 Edition

Symantec · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Symantec Endpoint Protection

2Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

2 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 Endpoint Protection was named 1 time in EDR, where Bitdefender GravityZone led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market51 of 54

under the label threshold

Enterprise35 of 50

under the label threshold

In edr · 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 Endpoint Protection 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
Endpoint detection and response	Security operations	0%	51 of 54	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Symantec Endpoint Protection 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 Endpoint Protection 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	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
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-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

“Broadcom-owned tools (Carbon Black, Symantec, VMware Carbon Black) — recurring bugs plus high risk of price hikes” DeepSeek V4 Flash · EDR · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Symantec Endpoint Protection, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Symantec Endpoint Protection was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Avast / AVG1 of 20Not in the top three

CCleaner Business1 of 20Not in the top three

CrowdStrike1 of 20Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon1 of 20Not in the top three

Datto EDR1 of 20Not in the top three

Defender1 of 20Not in the top three

F-Secure1 of 20Not in the top three

Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Expert1 of 20Not in the top three

McAfee1 of 20Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint1 of 20Not 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 Endpoint Protection. 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 1 of the 2 answers that named Symantec Endpoint Protection and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aricoma.com1

assets.kpmg.com1

capterra.co.il1

capterra.com1

cnbc.com1

community.spiceworks.com1

cyberpress.org1

decryptiondigest.com1

deepinstinct.com1

deepwatch.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Symantec Endpoint Protection came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aricoma.com/press-releases/updates-crowdstrike-blue-screen-of-death-ms-windows1

assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/in/pdf/2024/07/kpmg-ctip-crowdstrike-global-issue-201

capterra.co.il/reviews/1054986/datto-edr1

capterra.com/p/10013021/Datto-EDR1

capterra.com/p/10013021/Datto-EDR/reviews1

cnbc.com/2024/07/19/what-is-crowdstrike-crwd-and-how-did-it-cause-global-it-outages.html1

community.spiceworks.com/t/symantec-endpoint-protection/7875011

cyberpress.org/edr-solutions-by-business-size1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 symantec.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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