Every category where a model named BrandShield 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
Digital risk protection	Security operations	4%	6 of 86	0%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BrandShield 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 BrandShield 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	2	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	0	1

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

Direct4 labels1

Paraphrase10 labels3

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“Best overall coverage: BrandShield, for breadth across websites, marketplaces, social, ads, apps, and dark web.” Muse Glimmer 30B · DRP · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: BrandShield” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DRP · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“AI-powered (ClusterX for threat linking); monitors domains, social, ads, dark web, phishing. Strong for coordinated abuse” Grok 4.1 Fast · DRP · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“with BrandShield as a strong alternative depending on your specific priorities” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DRP · paraphrase prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BrandShield, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BrandShield was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ZeroFox18 of 272Compare →

Recorded Future11 of 271Compare →

Netcraft9 of 271Not among the top eight

UpGuard BreachSight7 of 274Compare →

Group-IB Digital Risk Protection6 of 270Not among the top eight

Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection6 of 270Compare →

Bolster5 of 272Not among the top eight

PhishLabs5 of 270Not among the top eight

CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence4 of 270Not among the top eight

Fortra Brand Protection4 of 270Not 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 BrandShield. 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 23 of the 27 answers that named BrandShield and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

upguard.com18

expertinsights.com14

guideflow.com14

netcraft.com14

g2.com12

breachsense.com11

zerofox.com8

cyble.com7

bitsight.com6

cyberpress.org6

110 of the 110 domain citations in answers naming BrandShield came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/digital-risk-protection-software11

upguard.com/blog/best-digital-risk-protection-drp-software-platforms-and-solutions11

expertinsights.com/security-operations/top-digital-risk-protection-solutions9

netcraft.com/blog/best-digital-risk-protection-providers9

g2.com/categories/digital-risk-protection-drp-platforms7

upguard.com/blog/best-dark-web-monitoring-tools7

upguard.com/blog/dark-web-monitoring-vendors-compared7

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-brand-protection-solutions6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

brandshield.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, BrandShield takes 4% of first choices and UpGuard BreachSight takes 22%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “digital risk protection platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “digital risk protection platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 720 a month (“brandshield”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 48 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,117 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 242 · 18 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,449
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

64 ads · 32 text, 17 video, 15 image · 24 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as BrandShield LTD, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 37 in the year, 27 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 6 of 86 in DRP

Segment leader

22%

UpGuard BreachSight

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 27 answers
Its own site cited: in 23 of the answers that named it

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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on brandshield.com

561

subdomains included

Content

486

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

24 · 1

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	343	18	2026-09-29
News or press	99	2	2026-09-30
Case study	12	5	2026-08-27
Report or ebook	11	1	2026-09-15
Conference or event	9	3	2026-07-17
Comparison	9	5	2026-08-30
Glossary or explainer	3	0	2025-09-16

Most recent

2026-09-30Cybersecuritydive ai scams news or press
2026-09-29Gaming scams blog
2026-09-23Brand phishing blog
2026-09-17Elevate your brand protection strategy in 2026 blog
2026-09-15Ai scams consumer fraud report report or ebook
2026-09-10Executive impersonation blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page brandshield.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow BrandShield

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The company

BrandShield is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI-powered digital risk and brand protection platform that detects and eliminates online threats targeting your brand, executives, and customers, across every digital channel.
brandshield.com
For: IT Security Teams
brandshield.com/who-we-serve/roles/security
Price stated: exclusive pricing brandshield.com/company/partners
Free plan or trial: free demo brandshield.com
Customers named: La Vie en RoseBang & OlufsenFerraraPlaytikaLiontrust
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What BrandShield's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: brandshield.com, brandshield.com/who-we-serve/roles/security, brandshield.com/products, brandshield.com/company/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for BrandShield by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where BrandShield 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 BrandShield, 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;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.