Every category where a model named CrowdStrike Falcon 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	6%	6 of 95	23%	22	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrowdStrike Falcon 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 CrowdStrike Falcon 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	2	5
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	0	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	1	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	2	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	1	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Direct20 labels6

Paraphrase12 labels3

Comparative13 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labels1

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative61 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 14 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.

“I'd generally recommend CrowdStrike Falcon Shield as the strongest default choice for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)” GPT-5.4 mini · SSPM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend shortlisting 2–3 vendors (e.g., CrowdStrike Falcon Shield, AppOmni, and Grip)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SSPM · scale prompt · first choice

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

“Start with Falcon Shield if you're invested in CrowdStrike” GPT-6 Luna · 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.

“What to Avoid ... require enterprise sales quotes and typically have high annual minimums” Kimi K2 · SSPM · budget prompt · hard negative

“More automated and cost-effective than CrowdStrike Falcon Shield (better for larger firms integrating with EDR, pricier at scale).” Grok 4.1 Fast · SSPM · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“often bundled with broader security suites, but a specialist SSPM license is recommended for full functionality” Mistral Small · SSPM · comparative prompt · soft negative

“no native remediation (just detection), or proxy-based rather than true API-native SSPM” Grok 4.1 Fast · SSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Shield, over the 61 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Shield was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AppOmni41 of 6113Compare →

Grip Security29 of 613Compare →

Obsidian Security27 of 612Compare →

Nudge Security26 of 616Compare →

Wing Security22 of 617Compare →

DoControl14 of 610Not among the top eight

Zscaler SSPM14 of 610Not among the top eight

Adaptive Shield11 of 613Compare →

Valence Security11 of 611Not among the top eight

Spin.AI11 of 610Compare →

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 CrowdStrike Falcon 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 61 of the 61 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Shield and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startupstash.com45

gbhackers.com31

cyberpress.org29

securityboulevard.com27

nudgesecurity.com26

itechguides.com23

scmgalaxy.com23

us.fitgap.com22

g2.com21

crowdstrike.comYour site20

247 of the 267 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Shield came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startupstash.com/best-sspm-platforms45

cyberpress.org/sspm-tools-by-business-size-229

gbhackers.com/best-sspm-compared29

securityboulevard.com/2024/09/9-popular-sspm-vendors-for-saas-application-security-grip26

scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/top-10-saas-security-posture-management-sspm-features-pros-cons-co23

itechguides.com/best/saas-security-posture-management-software21

us.fitgap.com/search/saas-security-posture-management-sspm-solutions/small-business20

guideflow.com/blog/sspm-software19

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

crowdstrike.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CrowdStrike Falcon Shield takes 6% of first choices and Wing Security takes 30%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “sspm platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “sspm platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 210 a month (“crowdstrike falcon shield”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 9 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 715,209 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 43,445 · 4,686 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 36,699
Paid Google search: 29 searches its ads show for, about 239 clicks and $13,967 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

119+ ads · 87 text, 20 image, 12 video · 119 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2024, as CROWDSTRIKE, INC., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 90 in the year, 29 before. 1 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 6 of 95 in SSPM

Segment leader

30%

Wing Security

First choices: 10 across its categories
Named in: 61 answers
Its own site cited: in 61 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 crowdstrike.com

14,523

subdomains included

Content

6,477

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

649 · 76

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	3,995	undated
Report or ebook	750	16	2026-09-21
News or press	713	28	2026-09-24
Case study	479	16	2026-09-24
Podcast or video	231	0	2026-03-24
Comparison	169	undated
Conference or event	103	0	2026-05-07
Webinar or virtual event	20	undated
Glossary or explainer	10	undated
Template or tool	7	0	2026-03-05

Most recent

2026-09-24Crowdstrike named leader proactive security platforms news or press
2026-09-24Solarig case study
2026-09-21Forrester wave proactive security platforms q3 2026 report or ebook
2026-09-17Forrester wave external threat intelligence q3 2026 report or ebook
2026-09-17Crowdstrike named leader external threat intelligence news or press
2026-09-16Efg holding case study

Events in person

Upcoming

October 27, 2026 to October 29, 2026it-sa Expo&CongressNürnberg · exhibits

Last twelve months

August 30, 2026 to September 1, 2026CrowdStrike Day Zero 2026 Threat Research SummitVirgin Hotel Las Vegas, Las Vegas · hosted
June 9, 2026CrowdTour FrankfurtFrankfurt · hosted
April 14, 2026CrowdTour WienWien · hosted

As the event pages on crowdstrike.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page crowdstrike.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 September 29, 2026.

Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Shield

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

Crowdstrike Falcon Shield 3CrowdStrike Falcon Shield (Adaptive Shield) 1

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The company

CrowdStrike Falcon Shield is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Blocca le compromissioni SaaS
crowdstrike.com/it-it/platform/falcon-shield
For: organizaciones
crowdstrike.com/es-latam/platform/falcon-shield
Price stated: Sin tarjetas de crédito. Sin compromiso. crowdstrike.com/es-latam/products/trials/try-falcon-shield
Free plan or trial: Prova la sicurezza SaaS gratuitamente per 15 giorni crowdstrike.com/it-it/platform/falcon-shield
Integrations claimed: 200 crowdstrike.com/it-it/platform/falcon-shield · 180 crowdstrike.com/es-latam/products/trials/try-falcon-shield pages disagree
Customers named: Ashton Woods HomesPeople First BankDoctolibSchrödingerSchrodinger
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, certifications, hosting

What CrowdStrike Falcon Shield's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: crowdstrike.com/it-it/platform/falcon-shield, crowdstrike.com/es-latam/platform/falcon-shield, crowdstrike.com/fr-fr/products/trials/try-falcon-shield, crowdstrike.com/es-es/platform/falcon-shield/integrations, crowdstrike.com/es-latam/products/trials/try-falcon-shield. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where CrowdStrike Falcon 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 CrowdStrike Falcon 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;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.