Every category where a model named BreachLock 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	19%	2 of 82	0%	35	accepted challenger	▲+11Since September 2026: 9% → 20%, +11 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	0%	35 of 74	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%
Digital risk protection	Security operations	0%	63 of 86	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by UpGuard BreachSight at 22%

Movement

Since September 2026, BreachLock held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · PTaaS · by segment

Small business▼−15Since September 2026: 28% → 12%, −15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.

12%from 28% in September 2026

Cleared the floor by 4 pointsRank 1 → 3 of 71

Mid-market▲+11Since September 2026: 9% → 20%, +11 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

20%from 9% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 0 pointsRank 3 → 2 of 74

Enterprise▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 8%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

8%from 4% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 5 → 4 of 63

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
PTaaS	9%	20%	▲+11Since September 2026: 9% → 20%, +11 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 3 → 2 of 82
BAS	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 35 of 74, unchanged
DRP	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 63 of 86, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated BreachLock 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	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	2	1	0	3
Grok 4.20	1	2	1	4
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	1	3
Kimi K2	0	4	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	1	2

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

Direct21 labels8

Paraphrase22 labels8

Comparative27 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labels3

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative2 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative93 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 24 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.

“For compliance-driven mid-market: Cobalt, Packetlabs, or BreachLock are the most frequently recommended choices.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PTaaS · direct prompt · first choice

“with a slight edge to BreachLock if you want transparent, subscription-style pricing and compliance-ready reporting” Muse Glimmer 30B · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Cobalt.io and BreachLock are especially popular due to their PTaaS models and focus on mid-market needs” Mistral Small · PTaaS · direct prompt · first choice

“If your budget is very tight, Breachlock is the best value on price alone based on the results.” Perplexity Sonar · PTaaS · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BreachLock, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BreachLock was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cobalt64 of 9316Compare →

NetSPI43 of 9316Not among the top eight

Synack43 of 9310Compare →

Astra Security33 of 939Compare →

Bugcrowd21 of 931Compare →

UnderDefense18 of 931Compare →

HackerOne18 of 930Compare →

Bishop Fox15 of 932Not among the top eight

Rapid715 of 930Not among the top eight

Mandiant14 of 930Not 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 BreachLock. 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 92 of the 93 answers that named BreachLock and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

underdefense.com58

techrepublic.com54

synack.com50

deepstrike.io49

getastra.com45

stingrai.io42

brightdefense.com38

beaglesecurity.com32

softwaresecured.com25

terra.security25

418 of the 418 domain citations in answers naming BreachLock came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies54

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services49

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies43

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/top-penetration-testing-companies.html30

deepstrike.io/blog/top-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas28

brightdefense.com/resources/best-penetration-testing-companies-for-soc-2-compliance26

terra.security/blog/top-10-penetration-testing-as-a-service-ptaas-providers25

getastra.com/blog/penetration-testing/top-providers24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

breachlock.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, BreachLock takes 19% of first choices and Cobalt takes 45%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “penetration testing service”

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not in the top ten

Position for “penetration testing services”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 590 a month (“breachlock”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 6 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,479 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,164 · 20 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,224
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

34 ads · 34 text · 22 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as BreachLock, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 3 in the year, 31 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

19%

rank 2 of 82 in ptaas

Segment leader

45%

Cobalt

First choices: 19 across its categories
Named in: 93 answers
Its own site cited: in 92 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 breachlock.com

327

subdomains included

Content

275

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

17 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	194	undated	PTaaS, ASM
News or press	49	undated	PTaaS, ASM
Glossary or explainer	20	undated	ASM, TPRM
Podcast or video	7	undated
Template or tool	3	undated
Case study	1	undated
Comparison	1	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page breachlock.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. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as BreachLock

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

Breachlock 5

Follow BreachLock

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

BreachLock is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Attack Surface Discovery & Penetration Testing; Breachlock delivers the most comprehensive Penetration Testing as a Service; The only offensive security provider combining continuous ASM, autonomous pentesting, CREST-certified penetration testing, and closed-loop remediation in a single workflow.
breachlock.com
For: Security teams; organizations
breachlock.com
Integrations claimed: 7 breachlock.com/products/ptaas
Certifications: CREST-certified penetration testingthird party security certificateCRESTOSCPOSCECISSPCEHGSNA
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, hosting, customers

What BreachLock's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: breachlock.com, breachlock.com/compliance/vendor-assessment, breachlock.com/products/ptaas. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when BreachLock's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as BreachLock, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where BreachLock 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 BreachLock, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where BreachLock is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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BreachLock is among the products AI models recommend first in Penetration testing as a service this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Penetration testing as a service standing, where the claim can be checked.

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/penetration-testing-as-a-service/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/breachlock--penetration-testing-as-a-service-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Penetration testing as a service, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Penetration testing as a service standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.