Subcategory · AI Citation Index
Endpoint Protection
The endpoint protection market demonstrates remarkable AI model agreement, with 42 consensus brands and top contenders achieving shortlist rates near 70% across maximally diverse model sets (diversity=4). Sophos edges ahead at 74%, followed closely by SentinelOne (72%) and CrowdStrike (69%), while Microsoft 365 appears multiple times at varying rates (68%, 60%, 49%), suggesting context-dependent positioning. The high model diversity scores indicate these recommendations hold across different AI architectures, not just model family consensus.
174 discovery queries · 338 head-to-heads · refreshed Sep 24, 2026
Discovery stage
The shortlist
Across 174 buyer-style "Endpoint Protection" queries
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Signal by intent
By topic
Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.
Evaluation stage
Head-to-head
How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 7/100
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Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.
Trends
Over the last 12 months
Brands to know
In this category
Sophos
Leads the category at 74% shortlist rate with maximum model diversity, indicating broad AI consensus on its endpoint protection capabilities.
Read brand profile →SentinelOne
Achieves 72% shortlist rate with maximum model diversity, positioning as a near-peer alternative to category leader Sophos.
Read brand profile →CrowdStrike
Holds 69% shortlist rate with maximum model diversity, completing the top-three consensus despite appearing twice in rankings.
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