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Symantec · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Symantec Endpoint Security

9Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Symantec Endpoint Security was named 2 times in EDR and 1 other category, 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-market47 of 54

under the label threshold

Enterprise48 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 Security 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%	47 of 54	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	74 of 99	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Symantec Endpoint Security 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 Security 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	1	1
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

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

“Platforms to be cautious about: Symantec Endpoint Security (Broadcom)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative

“often reflect older enterprise architectures and can be heavier to manage” GPT-5.4 mini · EDR · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Symantec Endpoint Security, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Symantec Endpoint Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint7 of 92Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon6 of 92Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR4 of 90Not in the top three

SentinelOne4 of 90Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity4 of 90Not in the top three

Trellix4 of 90Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender3 of 90Not in the top three

Norton3 of 90Not in the top three

Trellix EDR3 of 90Not in the top three

VMware Carbon Black3 of 90Not 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 Security. 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 5 of the 9 answers that named Symantec Endpoint Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org3

crowdstrike.com2

deel.com2

forrester.com2

gartner.com2

learn.microsoft.com2

paloaltonetworks.com2

peerspot.com2

reddit.com2

rfp.wiki2

Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Symantec Endpoint Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

deel.com/blog/best-endpoint-protection-for-business2

forrester.com/blogs/endpoint-security-is-dead-long-live-endpoint-security2

gartner.com/reviews/market/endpoint-protection-platforms2

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint2

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/13exdwa/endpoint_protection_screw_gartner_lets_get_hon2

arcticwolf.com/resources/blog-uk/why-endpoint-detection-and-response-is-not-enough1

bitlyft.com/resources/cybersecurity-showdown-comparing-the-top-edr-security-solutions1

checkthat.ai/brands/threatlocker/reviews1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Symantec Endpoint Security

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

Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Security 1Symantec Endpoint Security (Broadcom) 1

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