Every category where a model named Trend Micro 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%	14 of 54	8%	13	accepted challenger
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	29 of 99	20%	10	accepted challenger
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	43 of 78	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	24 of 57	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%
Email security	Security operations	0%	20 of 71	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	88 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	50 of 53	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%
Data loss prevention	Security operations	0%	78 of 84	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 39%
Managed detection and response	Security operations	0%	43 of 45	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 39%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Trend Micro 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 Trend Micro across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	1	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	7	1	10
Mistral Small	0	3	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	4	2	6
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1

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

Direct11 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative25 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained17 labelsNone

Negative16 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative76 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.

“Sophos Intercept X / Trend Micro: Often heavily focused on the mid-market with bundle pricing (endpoint + email + firewall)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EDR · scale prompt · alternative

“Sophos Intercept X / Trend Micro: Historically strong in the mid-market with great bundled offerings” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Endpoint protection · scale prompt · alternative

“Trend Micro is a good option for companies that want broad hybrid protection with virtual patching” Llama 4 Maverick · Container security · direct prompt · alternative

“consistently earn Gartner Customers' Choice with 96\u201399% willingness-to-recommend” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CNAPP · negative prompt · alternative

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.

“Server directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-34926)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · hard negative

“some Reddit users avoid due to underwhelming detection/response in real-world tests. Lower in Forrester/Gartner vs. top tier.” Grok 4.1 Fast · EDR · negative prompt · soft negative

“it consistently sits in the "average" or below-average category in modern detection tests” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Endpoint protection · negative prompt · soft negative

“their cloud suite is often described as heavy and difficult to configure correctly” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Trend Micro, over the 76 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Trend Micro was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint36 of 768Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon35 of 7621Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity34 of 767Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR30 of 760Not in the top three

Sophos Intercept X22 of 761Not in the top three

Bitdefender GravityZone21 of 763Not in the top three

CrowdStrike19 of 764Not in the top three

SentinelOne13 of 762Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR13 of 761Not in the top three

Wiz11 of 764Not 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 Trend Micro. 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 60 of the 76 answers that named Trend Micro and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com30

gartner.com29

cybersecuritynews.com22

decryptiondigest.com22

cyberpress.org18

expertinsights.com15

huntress.com15

microsoft.com15

scribd.com15

tech-insider.org15

196 of the 196 domain citations in answers naming Trend Micro came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-edr-solutions-compared22

cybersecuritynews.com/best-edr-solutions16

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-edr-endpoint-detection-and-response-solutions-in-202612

gartner.com/reviews/market/endpoint-protection-platforms12

microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/09/25/microsoft-is-named-a-leader-in-the-2024-gartn12

start.paloaltonetworks.com/gartner-epp-mq11

techrepublic.com/article/best-edr-software11

trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/a/endpoint-gartner-magic-quadrant-2024.html11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Trend Micro

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

Trend Micro Vision One 7Trend Micro (Apex One / Deep Security) 1Trend Micro (WazaH/Hybrid Cloud) 1Twistlock/Trend Micro 1

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