Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 49 of 53, unchanged
2 categories · Named, not rankedSymantec
11Judge labels
0First choices
7Negative labels
7 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, 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 was named 2 times in XDR and 1 other category, where Microsoft Defender XDR led with 40%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market53 of 58
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In xdr · 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extended detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 53 of 58 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 40% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Zero trust network access | Network and edge | 0% | 50 of 66 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Twingate at 39% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Symantec held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · XDR · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 53 of 58, unchanged |
| ZTNA | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 50 of 66, unchanged |
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 Symantec across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Symantec across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 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.
“Symantec is often criticized for having a very heavy footprint and a clunky user interface ("management overhead").” Qwen 3.7 Flash · XDR · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Symantec, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Symantec was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Symantec, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Symantec was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Symantec. 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 9 of the 11 answers that named Symantec and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
csoonline.com3
expertinsights.com3
g2.com3
guideflow.com3
huntress.com3
reddit.com3
softwareadvice.com3
checkthat.ai2
cpl.thalesgroup.com2
crowdstrike.com2
Twenty-seven of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Symantec came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
broadcom.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Symantec takes 0% of first choices and Microsoft Defender XDR takes 40%.ShowHide
Search and answers
broadcom.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Symantec takes 0% of first choices and Microsoft Defender XDR takes 40%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “xdr platform”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “xdr platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Organic visits to its site
- about 604,076 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 74,533 · 7,642 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 54,260
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 53 of 58 in XDR
Segment leader
40%
Microsoft Defender XDR
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 11 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 9 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on broadcom.com
10,306
subdomains included
Content
3,025
counted in the table below
Documentation
5,282
Product · Integration
24 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 1,649 | 0 | 2025-07-30 | SASE | |
| News or press | 635 | 1 | 2026-07-01 | ||
| Blog | 476 | 0 | 2026-02-24 | SASE | |
| Report or ebook | 55 | 2 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Case study | 50 | 1 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 45 | 0 | 2025-09-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 43 | 0 | 2026-03-16 | ||
| Comparison | 38 | 2 | 2026-07-28 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 33 | 2 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-18Banco inter automic automation case study case study
- 2026-09-14Beyond observability with automation intelligence ebook report or ebook
- 2026-09-14Whats new in broadcom aai v26 webinar webinar or virtual event
- 2026-07-28Valueops spm vs servicenow comparison
- 2026-07-28Valueops vsm vs planview comparison
- 2026-07-13Moving from sap lama to vcf ebook report or ebook
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page broadcom.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Symantec
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Symantec; a claim can dispute any of them.
Symantec (Broadcom) 1Symantec/Broadcom ZTNA 1
Follow Symantec
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.
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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 Symantec'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 Symantec, 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 Symantec by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Symantec 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 Symantec, 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.