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Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense

Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense is deception technology from Proofpoint that uses fake credentials and accounts to detect identity threats such as privilege escalation and impersonation · proofpoint.com ↗

–Too few to rank
10/14Models named it
0First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inIdentity threat detection and response #23 mid-marketDeception technology #47
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense has 8.

Why models recommend it

“Choose SentinelOne or Proofpoint (Illusive) if your priority is Identity Threat Detection (ITDR)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense, over the 18 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense's own site, not checked by Gane.

Customers named
Hendry Regional Medical Center
Visit proofpoint.com ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 18 of the 18 answers that named Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com11
cybersecuritynews.com6
assets.beyondtrust.com5
cynet.com5
kuppingercole.com5
wiz.io5
crowdstrike.com4
daylight.ai4
guardz.com4
portal.gigaom.com4

Fifty-three of the fifty-three domain citations in answers naming Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00202