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CyberArk Identity Security Platform

107Judge labels
11First choices
34Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
20% in NHI management for enterprise buyers
Rank 59 of 128 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 45% of its 29 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CyberArk Identity Security Platform →
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In nhi management · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named CyberArk Identity Security Platform 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Non-human identity managementIdentity and access0%59 of 12845%29criticized challenger
Identity threat detection and responseIdentity and access0%19 of 1050%7under 10 labels · led by Huntress Managed ITDR at 51%
Identity governanceIdentity and access0%25 of 760%2under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID Governance at 25%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CyberArk Identity Security Platform 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 CyberArk Identity Security Platform across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar03003
Grok 4.2000134
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash11035
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash03126
Kimi K210023
GLM 4.7 FlashX12014
MiniMax M2.511002
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B12216

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
Direct18 labels4
Paraphrase23 labels6
Comparative34 labels8not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labels1
Scale-constrained12 labelsNone
Negative10 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative107 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 20 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.

“End-to-end identity security platform covering human, privileged, and machine identities ... Best For: Large enterprises needing comprehensive identity security across all identity types” Kimi K2 · NHI management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best for unified machine identity security and Zero Trust: CyberArk, especially post-Venafi for certificate and machine identity governance at enterprise scale.” Muse Glimmer 30B · NHI management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Consider larger, established platforms (e.g., CyberArk, now owned by Palo Alto Networks at $21-25B) that have deeper resources and more stable roadmaps” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NHI management · negative prompt · first choice
“CyberArk (including its Venafi acquisition) is the enterprise benchmark for managing large certificate estates and privileged access.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NHI management · 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 (for Mid-Market) - CyberArk, SailPoint, Saviynt (enterprise IGA suites)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NHI management · direct prompt · hard negative
“Avoid CyberArk/Venafi at this stage—they're overkill in both cost and complexity” Kimi K2 · NHI management · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“CyberArk/Traditional PAM: Overkill and overpriced for mid-market needs” Kimi K2 · NHI management · direct prompt · hard negative
“CyberArk | Enterprise pricing, way beyond SMB budgets” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NHI management · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CyberArk Identity Security Platform, over the 107 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CyberArk Identity Security Platform was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
HashiCorp Vault55 of 1073Not among the top eight
Akeyless37 of 1077Not among the top eight
Astrix Security32 of 1072Not among the top eight
Entro Security30 of 1072Not among the top eight
Venafi29 of 1071Not among the top eight
SailPoint25 of 1070Not among the top eight
Microsoft Entra ID24 of 1075Not among the top eight
Delinea24 of 1074Not among the top eight
Oasis Security23 of 1075Not among the top eight
Okta23 of 1072Not 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 CyberArk Identity Security Platform. 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 100 of the 107 answers that named CyberArk Identity Security Platform and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com55
startupstash.com38
cybersecuritynews.com36
oneidentity.com35
startwithidentity.com35
wwt.com31
securityboulevard.com30
guideflow.com29
cyberpress.org28
majorkeytech.com28

345 of the 345 domain citations in answers naming CyberArk Identity Security Platform came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cyberark.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, CyberArk Identity Security Platform takes 0% of first choices and JumpCloud takes 14%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “non-human identity management platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best non-human identity management platform”
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not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
140 a month (“cyberark identity security platform”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
2 a month
Its company's site
cyberark.com shared with CyberArk's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 147,793 a month
Searches its site ranks for
8,049 · 538 in the top three
Sites linking to it
13,201
Paid Google search
1 searches its ads show for, about 4 clicks and $62 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 115 text, 5 video · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2023, as CYBERARK SOFTWARE LTD., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 68 in the year, 52 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 59 of 128 in NHI management
Segment leader
14%
JumpCloud
First choices
11 across its categories
Named in
107 answers
Its own site cited
in 100 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.

Names read as CyberArk Identity Security Platform

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CyberArk Identity Security Platform; a claim can dispute any of them.
CyberArk 32CyberArk Identity Security 2CyberArk (now Idira by Palo Alto Networks) 1CyberArk (via Venafi acquisition) 1CyberArk (with Venafi) 1CyberArk Identity Security Platform (Idira) 1

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The company

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In its own words

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Positioning
Identity security platform to secure every identity: human, machine and agentic
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What CyberArk Identity Security Platform's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/identity-security, paloaltonetworks.com/idira/identity-security-guide, paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/what-is-identity-security, paloaltonetworks.com/idira/idira-identity-security-landscape, paloaltonetworks.com/idira/identity-security-landscape-report. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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