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Symantec · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Symantec Privileged Access Manager

8Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

6 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Symantec Privileged Access Manager was named 2 times in PAM, where ManageEngine PAM360 led with 21%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business52 of 55

under the label threshold

Mid-market72 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprise48 of 49

under the label threshold

In pam · 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 Privileged Access Manager 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
Privileged access management	Identity and access	0%	72 of 74	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Symantec Privileged Access Manager 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 Privileged Access Manager 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	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

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 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.

“Do not adopt Broadcom/Symantec or ManageEngine PAM360 without a patching SLA and network isolation.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Broadcom’s Symantec Privileged Access Management had a high-risk issue tracked as CVE-2025-24505... should trigger extra scrutiny of patching and hardening.” GPT-5.4 mini · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Symantec Privileged Access Manager, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Symantec Privileged Access Manager was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CyberArk6 of 82Not in the top three

BeyondTrust6 of 81Not in the top three

Delinea5 of 80Not in the top three

KeeperPAM4 of 82Not in the top three

ManageEngine PAM3604 of 80Not in the top three

HashiCorp Vault3 of 80Not in the top three

One Identity3 of 80Not in the top three

Securden Unified PAM3 of 80Not in the top three

WALLIX3 of 80Not in the top three

ARCON PAM2 of 80Not 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 Privileged Access Manager. 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 6 of the 8 answers that named Symantec Privileged Access Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com4

acsmi.org3

gartner.com3

heimdalsecurity.com3

nhimg.org3

adminbyrequest.com2

compliancestronghold.com2

delinea.com2

keepersecurity.com2

peerspot.com2

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming Symantec Privileged Access Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/the-top-privileged-access-management-pam4

acsmi.org/blogs/best-privileged-access-management-pam-solutions-ranked-amp-reviewed3

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/privileged-access-management-pam-software-solutions3

adminbyrequest.com/en/blogs/top-10-privileged-access-management-tools-for-20242

compliancestronghold.com/best-pam-solution2

gartner.com/reviews/market/privileged-access-management2

unvarnishedreviews.com/cyberark-vs-beyondtrust-vs-delinea2

veza.com/blog/pam-privileged-access-management-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Symantec Privileged Access Manager

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

Broadcom / Symantec Privileged Access Management 1Broadcom's Symantec Privileged Access Management 1

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