# Insider risk management for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "insider risk management tool" and as "insider threat platform", 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/insider-risk-management/smb

**Standing:** Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management leads with 50% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 56 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-purview-insider-risk-management/index.md) | 50% | 9% | 58 |
| 2 | [Teramind](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/teramind/index.md) | 16% | 22% | 55 |
| 3 | [ActivTrak](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/activtrak/index.md) | 7% | 9% | 32 |
| 5 | [Coro](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/coro/index.md) | 5% | 14% | 22 |
| 6 | [Above Security](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/above-security/index.md) | 5% | 36% | 14 |
| 8 | [Apploye](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/apploye/index.md) | 2% | 8% | 25 |
| 11 | [Safetica](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/safetica/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 18 |
| 80 | [Proofpoint](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/proofpoint/index.md) | 0% | 60% | 10 |
| 83 | [DTEX InTERCEPT](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/dtex-intercept/index.md) | 0% | 67% | 18 |
| 84 | [Exabeam](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/exabeam/index.md) | 0% | 90% | 10 |
| 85 | [Forcepoint DLP](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/forcepoint-dlp/index.md) | 0% | 77% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 85 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: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives Coro, Safetica, Teramind
- GPT-5.4 mini: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives Incydr, Proofpoint, Teramind
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives Code42 Incydr, Metomic, Nightfall AI, Teramind
- Perplexity Sonar: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives Teramind
- Grok 4.20: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives ActivTrak, Code42, DoControl, Safetica
- Mistral Small: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives Apploye, Safetica
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Coro, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives Safetica
- Llama 4 Maverick: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives ActivTrak, Apploye, Teramind
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Teramind; alternatives ActivTrak, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, Safetica
- Kimi K2: Coro; alternatives ManageEngine Endpoint DLP Plus, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives Safetica
- MiniMax M2.5: ActivTrak, Teramind; alternatives Coro, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
- GPT-6 Luna: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Above Security, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management; alternatives ActivTrak, Apploye, Coro, Teramind

## Sources the answers cite

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

- insiderisk.io: 55 answers, 85 citations
- microsoft.com: 45 answers, 76 citations
- companionlink.com: 36 answers, 38 citations
- rankite.com: 32 answers, 35 citations
- gane.ai/index: 27 answers, 27 citations
- sourceforge.net: 24 answers, 29 citations
- jazz.security: 21 answers, 30 citations
- learn.microsoft.com: 17 answers, 24 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://insiderisk.io/research/best-insider-risk-management-tools-2026 (43 answers)
- https://companionlink.com/blog/2026/10/best-employee-monitoring-software-for-insider-threat-detection (35 answers)
- https://microsoft.com/en/security/small-medium-business/microsoft-purview-suite-business-premium (33 answers)
- https://rankite.com/blog/best-insider-threat-software (30 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/it/security/insider-risk-management/smb (27 answers)
- https://insiderisk.io/research/insider-risk-management-vendor-comparison-2025 (15 answers)
- https://topbusinesssoftware.com/categories/insider-threat-management/small-business-orgs (13 answers)
- https://comparitech.com/net-admin/insider-threat-detection-tools (12 answers)
- https://g2.com/categories/insider-threat-management-itm/small-business (12 answers)
- https://guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-insider-threat-management-tools-2026 (12 answers)

## Warned against

- Teramind: 12 of 55 labels negative. "Examples to avoid: Tools like DTEX Systems, Teramind, or certain features in Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) and Forcepoint Insider Threat." (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)
- DTEX InTERCEPT: 12 of 18 labels negative. "Tools to Avoid: Forcepoint, DTEX (Dtex Systems), Securonix, Veriato, Exabeam." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)
- Exabeam: 9 of 10 labels negative. "Tools to Avoid: Forcepoint, DTEX (Dtex Systems), Securonix, Veriato, Exabeam." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)
- Forcepoint DLP: 10 of 13 labels negative. "Tools to Avoid: Forcepoint, DTEX (Dtex Systems), Securonix, Veriato, Exabeam." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management at 50%.

- Coro: 18% to 5%, −13. Cleared the floor by 2 points · rank 2 → 5 of 85.
- Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: 42% to 50%, +8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 1 of 85, unchanged.
- ActivTrak: 0% to 7%, +7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 14 → 3 of 85.
- Teramind: 11% to 16%, +5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 3 → 2 of 85.
- Safetica: 5% to 0%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 5 → 11 of 85.
- Above Security: 7% to 5%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 6 of 85.
- Code42 Incydr: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 8 → 7 of 85.
- Apploye: 0% to 2%, +2. New · not ranked in October 2026 · rank 8 of 85.
- Metomic: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 13 → 36 of 85.
- Proofpoint: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 66 → 80 of 85.
- Veriato: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 69 → 82 of 85.
- DTEX InTERCEPT: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 61 → 83 of 85.

## 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.