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Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response

26Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

11 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.

Best standing

0% in MDR for enterprise buyers

Rank 13 of 45 in the mid-market standing

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 5 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business39 of 46

under the label threshold

Mid-market13 of 45

under the label threshold

Enterprise14 of 45

accepted challenger

In mdr · 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 Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response 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
Managed detection and response	Security operations	0%	13 of 45	0%	5	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 Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response 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 Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative13 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 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.

“best for companies already invested in Cortex/XDR and wanting tight platform-native integration” GPT-5.4 mini · MDR · comparative prompt · alternative

“The Best for Network Visibility: Palo Alto Networks (Prisma Access / Unit 42)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MDR · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response22 of 263Not in the top three

Sophos MDR20 of 262Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete18 of 2612Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity MDR12 of 261Not in the top three

Rapid7 MDR11 of 261Not in the top three

Expel10 of 260Not in the top three

Red Canary10 of 260Not in the top three

CrowdStrike8 of 264Not in the top three

Huntress Managed EDR7 of 262Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity Wayfinder6 of 260Not 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 Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response. 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 22 of the 26 answers that named Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

paloaltonetworks.com16

corporatevision-news.com15

learn.g2.com14

rapid7.com14

gbhackers.com11

acquisition-international.com9

defendify.com9

checkthat.ai8

gartner.com8

cybersecuritynews.com7

111 of the 111 domain citations in answers naming Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

corporatevision-news.com/best-managed-detection-and-response-services-for-enterprises-in-215

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/mdr-solutions15

learn.g2.com/top-mdr-providers14

gbhackers.com/best-mdr-services-compared11

rapid7.com/fundamentals/top-mdr-providers11

acquisition-international.com/the-best-mdr-services-for-enterprise-security-teams-in-20269

defendify.com/blog/managed-detection-and-response-providers9

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-managed-detection-and-response-solutions8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response; a claim can dispute any of them.

Palo Alto Cortex MDR 1Palo Alto Networks (Cortex MDR / Unit 42) 1Palo Alto Networks (Cortex MDR) 1Palo Alto Networks (Prisma Access / Unit 42) 1Palo Alto Networks Cortex MDR 1

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