Every category where a model named Adaptive Shield for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
SaaS security posture management	Security operations	4%	10 of 95	35%	20	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Adaptive Shield yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Adaptive Shield across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	0	2	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct6 labels2

Paraphrase7 labels2

Comparative17 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labelsNone

Scale-constrained8 labels1

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 9 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Adaptive Shield and Wing Security are the most commonly recommended mid-market combos” Muse Glimmer 30B · SSPM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“making it a strong choice for enterprises needing broad coverage and XDR integration” Mistral Small · SSPM · comparative prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: Adaptive Shield (now CrowdStrike Falcon Shield)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SSPM · direct prompt · first choice

“If you use CrowdStrike Falcon → Adaptive Shield is the obvious choice” Kimi K2 · SSPM · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid: Enterprise-focused platforms like ... Adaptive Shield” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SSPM · budget prompt · hard negative

“Adaptive Shield was acquired by CrowdStrike and is now marketed as Falcon Shield. That's not, by itself, a reason to avoid it; it is a reason to confirm the exact product, support, pricing, and roadmap” GPT-6 Luna · SSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Adaptive Shield was acquired by CrowdStrike in 2024... ties SSPM buying to Falcon. If you are not a Falcon shop, you are effectively buying into a bundled platform.” Muse Glimmer 30B · SSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Newer or niche players (e.g., some like Adaptive Shield pre-rebrand, or lesser-knowns in G2-style cons lists): Frequent complaints include limited app coverage” Grok 4.1 Fast · SSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Adaptive Shield, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Adaptive Shield was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AppOmni44 of 5711Compare →

Wing Security25 of 5713Compare →

Obsidian Security25 of 572Compare →

Nudge Security24 of 579Compare →

Grip Security23 of 573Compare →

Obsidian13 of 571Not among the top eight

Valence Security13 of 570Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike Falcon Shield11 of 572Compare →

DoControl11 of 570Not among the top eight

Zscaler SSPM11 of 570Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Adaptive Shield. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 54 of the 57 answers that named Adaptive Shield and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com33

cyberpress.org28

startupstash.com27

guideflow.com25

nudgesecurity.com24

vcso.ai23

scmgalaxy.com18

reco.ai17

itechguides.com16

work-management.org16

No domain is on file for Adaptive Shield, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-sspm-compared32

cyberpress.org/sspm-tools-by-business-size-228

startupstash.com/best-sspm-platforms27

guideflow.com/blog/sspm-software25

vcso.ai/learn/best-sspm-tools-202623

nudgesecurity.com/post/best-sspm-tools21

scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/top-10-saas-security-posture-management-sspm-features-pros-cons-co18

itechguides.com/best/saas-security-posture-management-software15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Adaptive Shield stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 320 a month (“adaptive shield”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 36 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 10 of 95 in SSPM

Segment leader

30%

Wing Security

First choices: 5 across its categories
Named in: 57 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Adaptive Shield

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Adaptive Shield; a claim can dispute any of them.

Adaptive Shield (CrowdStrike) 3Adaptive Shield (Falcon Shield) 1Adaptive Shield (now CrowdStrike Falcon Shield) 1Adaptive Shield (now part of CrowdStrike Falcon Shield) 1

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where Adaptive Shield is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Adaptive Shield, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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