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Index Vendors › Varonis · September 2026 Edition
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Varonis

20Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
9 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.
Best standing
0% in DLP for mid-market buyers
Rank 15 of 84 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In dlp · 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 Varonis 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Data loss preventionSecurity operations0%15 of 840%10accepted challenger
SIEM platformsSecurity operations0%46 of 49100%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Sentinel at 41%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Varonis 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 Varonis across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01102
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash02002
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00011
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative5 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 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.

“For smaller/mid-size businesses: Look at Microsoft Purview (if heavily invested in M365) or Varonis (strong at-rest analytics)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DLP · negative prompt · alternative
“Prefer modern alternatives: Look at contextual/ML-driven options (e.g., Netskope, Zscaler, Varonis) rated higher” Grok 4.1 Fast · DLP · negative prompt · alternative
“The Best for Data Discovery (Unstructured Data): Varonis” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DLP · 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.

“On‑prem Data Security Platform – EOL 31 December 2026” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SIEM · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Varonis, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Varonis was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Forcepoint DLP17 of 203Not in the top three
Microsoft Purview DLP16 of 205Not in the top three
Netskope DLP14 of 200Not in the top three
Symantec Data Loss Prevention12 of 200Not in the top three
Proofpoint Enterprise DLP11 of 201Not in the top three
Zscaler10 of 200Not in the top three
Cyberhaven5 of 201Not in the top three
Nightfall AI4 of 200Not in the top three
Safetica4 of 200Not in the top three
Strac3 of 201Not 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 Varonis. 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 14 of the 20 answers that named Varonis and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com13
strac.io8
currentware.com7
g2.com6
learn.g2.com6
decryptiondigest.com5
miniorange.com5
netwrix.com5
proofpoint.com5
reddit.com5

Sixty-five of the sixty-five domain citations in answers naming Varonis came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Varonis

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Varonis; a claim can dispute any of them.
Varonis (On‑Prem) 1
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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 Varonis'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 Varonis, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at varonis.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.