Who gets cited when CISOs ask AI.

The public monthly ranking of the top 30 cybersecurity SaaS brands by citation share across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Gemini — measured against 100 buyer-intent prompts CISOs actually use.

PROMPTS TESTED

100

AI ENGINES

AVG VISIBILITY SCORE

BRANDS BARELY VISIBLE

5/30

// LEADERBOARD

Top 30 — May 2026

#	Δ	Brand	Category	Visibility	GPT	PPLX	Claude	Google	Gemini
01		CrowdStrike	EDR / XDR	87	92	88	84	86	85
02	1	Wiz	CSPM / CNAPP	84	89	90	78	82	81
03	1	Palo Alto Networks	Network / SASE	82	88	79	80	85	78
04		SentinelOne	EDR / XDR	76	81	78	72	75	74
05	2	Snyk	AppSec / SCA	74	77	82	70	71	70
06	1	Okta	Identity / IAM	73	78	71	72	74	70
07	1	Cloudflare	Network / WAF	72	75	74	70	72	69
08	3	Cyera	DSPM	68	70	75	64	66	65
09	1	Tenable	Vuln Mgmt	66	69	65	64	68	64
10	1	Rapid7	Vuln Mgmt	64	66	63	62	65	64
11	1	Splunk	SIEM	63	64	60	65	67	59
12	3	Vanta	GRC / Compliance	62	65	68	58	60	59
13	1	1Password	Identity / PAM	61	64	60	60	62	59
14	1	Zscaler	Network / SASE	60	62	58	59	63	58
15	1	Datadog Security	SIEM / Observability	58	60	57	56	61	56
16	3	Drata	GRC / Compliance	56	58	62	52	54	54
17	1	Lacework	CSPM	54	55	53	52	56	54
18	1	Abnormal Security	Email Security	53	55	54	51	53	52
19	3	Island	Enterprise Browser	51	53	58	47	49	48
20	2	Arctic Wolf	MDR	50	51	49	49	52	49
21	1	Huntress	MDR	48	49	50	46	48	47
22	1	JumpCloud	Identity / IAM	46	47	45	46	48	44
23	2	Aikido	AppSec	44	45	50	40	43	42
24	1	Sysdig	CSPM / Runtime	43	44	42	42	45	42
25	1	BeyondTrust	PAM	41	42	39	41	44	39
26		Mimecast	Email Security	39	40	38	38	41	38
27	1	Sumo Logic	SIEM	37	38	36	37	39	35
28	1	Netskope	SASE / CASB	36	37	35	36	38	34
29	1	Orca Security	CNAPP	34	35	37	31	33	34
30	1	Trellix	XDR	32	33	30	32	34	31

Visibility = weighted citation share across 100 buyer-intent prompts on 5 engines. 100 = cited in every relevant answer.

MOVER OF THE MONTH

Cyera +3

DSPM category exploded in Perplexity citations after a wave of Reddit and G2 mentions tied to the May data-exposure incidents.

BIGGEST DROP

Palo Alto −1

Lost ground in Claude and Gemini as comparison content from challengers (Wiz, Zscaler) overtook older PAN-authored thought leadership.

DEAD ZONE

13 brands invisible

13 vendors in the top 30 score below 40. Their buyers are getting AI answers that don't include them — most don't know yet.

// METHODOLOGY

How we score visibility

100 buyer-intent prompts

Built from real CISO research patterns: shortlist queries (“best EDR for mid-market”), comparison queries (“CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne”), and category education queries (“what is CNAPP”).

5 AI engines, fresh sessions

ChatGPT (GPT-5), Perplexity, Claude 4, Google AI Mode, Gemini. Each prompt runs in a clean session, no memory, US locale, on the 1st of each month.

Citation weighting

A direct citation with link = 1.0. Brand mention without link = 0.5. Mentioned in comparison table = 0.7. Positioned as primary recommendation = 1.5x multiplier.

Score normalization

Per-engine scores rolled up to 0–100. Final visibility score is the weighted average across engines (weights reflect 2026 B2B research traffic share).