# Digital risk protection for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "digital risk protection platform" and as "dark web and brand impersonation monitoring service", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/security/digital-risk-protection/smb

**Standing:** SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence leads with 27% of first choices; verdict contested. 45 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/socradar-extended-threat-intelligence/index.md) | 27% | 5% | 40 |
| 2 | [Flare](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/flare/index.md) | 11% | 0% | 22 |
| 3 | [Guardz](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/guardz/index.md) | 9% | 0% | 14 |
| 4 | [UpGuard BreachSight](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/upguard-breachsight/index.md) | 4% | 4% | 25 |
| 7 | [ZeroFox](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/zerofox/index.md) | 4% | 50% | 52 |
| 8 | [Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/proofpoint-digital-risk-protection/index.md) | 4% | 65% | 17 |
| 23 | [Netcraft Digital Risk Protection Platform](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/netcraft-digital-risk-protection-platform/index.md) | 0% | 20% | 20 |
| 24 | [BrandShield](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/brandshield/index.md) | 0% | 8% | 13 |
| 25 | [Cyble Vision](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cyble-vision/index.md) | 0% | 10% | 10 |
| 104 | [Recorded Future Digital Risk Protection](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/recorded-future-digital-risk-protection/index.md) | 0% | 74% | 38 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 104 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: ThreatMon; alternatives Cyberint, SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence
- GPT-5.4 mini: Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection; alternatives ChainPatrol, CrowdStrike
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Flare; alternatives SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence, UpGuard BreachSight, ZeroFox
- Perplexity Sonar: nebty; alternatives Netcraft Digital Risk Protection Platform, UpGuard BreachSight
- Grok 4.20: SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence; alternatives Cyble Vision, Netcraft Digital Risk Protection Platform, ZeroFox
- Mistral Small: SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence; alternatives Recorded Future Digital Risk Protection, ZeroFox
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Guardz; alternatives Flare, SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence, UpGuard BreachSight
- Llama 4 Maverick: CloudSEK XVigil; alternatives Rapid7 Threat Command, Recorded Future Digital Risk Protection, SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence, ZeroFox
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: CyberWatchdog; alternatives CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, SecurityScorecard
- Kimi K2: SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence; alternatives BrandCat, PhishEye
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence; alternatives BrandShield, Netcraft Digital Risk Protection Platform, ZeroFox
- MiniMax M2.5: Guardz; alternatives PhishEye, UpGuard BreachSight
- GPT-6 Luna: Styx; alternatives UpGuard BreachSight
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 01Guard; alternatives SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence, UpGuard BreachSight, nebty

## Sources the answers cite

77 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- netcraft.com: 32 answers, 44 citations
- sourceforge.net: 28 answers, 40 citations
- expertinsights.com: 27 answers, 28 citations
- cloudsek.com: 27 answers, 27 citations
- g2.com: 24 answers, 50 citations
- comparitech.com: 24 answers, 24 citations
- cybersectools.com: 24 answers, 24 citations
- gane.ai/index: 23 answers, 27 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://cloudsek.com/knowledge-base/best-digital-risk-protection-platforms (24 answers)
- https://netcraft.com/blog/best-digital-risk-protection-providers (22 answers)
- https://expertinsights.com/security-operations/top-digital-risk-protection-solutions (22 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/it/security/digital-risk-protection/smb (22 answers)
- https://comparitech.com/net-admin/best-digital-risk-protection-platforms (21 answers)
- https://cybersectools.com/resources/shortlists/best-drp-tools (21 answers)
- https://slashdot.org/software/digital-risk-protection-drp/f-small-business (20 answers)
- https://peerspot.com/categories/digital-risk-protection (19 answers)
- https://microsoft.com/en-us/security/small-medium-business (16 answers)
- https://socradar.io/pricing (16 answers)

## Warned against

- Recorded Future Digital Risk Protection: 28 of 38 labels negative. "Enterprise-only platforms: Group-IB, Recorded Future, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence are designed for large enterprises" (Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt)
- ZeroFox: 26 of 52 labels negative. "carries a 45% negative rate and is tagged "criticized challenger"... tends to make them a poor fit compared with the lower-negative-rate challengers" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection: 11 of 17 labels negative. "57% negative rate and is tagged "criticized challenger"... "Premium pricing for small businesses. Complex deployment requires skilled staff"" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Group-IB Digital Risk Protection: 7 of 8 labels negative. "Enterprise-only platforms: Group-IB, Recorded Future, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence are designed for large enterprises" (Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Guardz (28%) to SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence (27%). Margin 18 points, beyond the floor.

- SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence: 8% to 27%, +19. Cleared the floor by 8 points · rank 4 → 1 of 104.
- Guardz: 28% to 9%, −19. Cleared the floor by 8 points · rank 1 → 3 of 104.
- UpGuard BreachSight: 11% to 4%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 2 → 4 of 104.
- Netcraft Digital Risk Protection Platform: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 6 → 23 of 104.
- Flare: 8% to 11%, +3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 3 → 2 of 104.
- Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 23 → 8 of 104.
- ZeroFox: 4% to 4%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 of 104, unchanged.
- BrandShield: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 24 of 104, unchanged.
- Cyble Vision: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 27 → 25 of 104.
- Rapid7 Threat Command: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 35 → 29 of 104.
- Group-IB Digital Risk Protection: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 113 → 103 of 104.
- Recorded Future Digital Risk Protection: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 114 → 104 of 104.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.