Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 16 → 18 of 93
2 categories · RankedCyCognito
106Judge labels
8First choices
36Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in ASM for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 100 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 26% of its 39 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CyCognito →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 99
2%25 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 100
6%39 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise3 of 89
7%39 labels
accepted challenger
In asm · 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 CyCognito 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 6% | 4 of 100 | 26% | 39 | criticized challenger | ▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Breach and attack simulation | Security operations | 0% | 51 of 74 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24% |
Movement
Since September 2026, CyCognito held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · ASM · by segment
Mid-market▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 9 → 4 of 98
Enterprise▼−3Since September 2026: 9% → 7%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 9% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 81
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASM | 2% | 7% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 4 of 100 |
| BAS | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 51 of 74, 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 CyCognito across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated CyCognito across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 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
Direct24 labels5
Paraphrase12 labels2
Comparative28 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labelsNone
Scale-constrained13 labels1
Negative19 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative106 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 11 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.
“Validation separates the best. Platforms like CyCognito and Synack actively test whether exposures are truly exploitable” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting evaluations with CyCognito (if you want comprehensive discovery and have the budget)” MiniMax M2.5 · ASM · direct prompt · first choice
“Highly praised for autonomous discovery... Leaders like CyCognito stand out for validation beyond detection” Grok 4.20 · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best for mid-market organizations with a single-entity footprint and limited supply chain exposure” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ASM · direct 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.
“Also flagged as a criticized challenger (39% negative labels)” Mistral Small · ASM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Strong for automated discovery, but the search results point more toward complex environments than a typical mid-market default.” Perplexity Sonar · ASM · direct prompt · soft negative
“you do not need to pay for five-figure, enterprise-grade platforms like Palo Alto Cortex Xpanse or CyCognito” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ASM · budget prompt · soft negative
“Highly affordable compared to enterprise-grade tools like Palo Alto's Cortex Xpanse or CyCognito.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ASM · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CyCognito, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CyCognito was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CyCognito, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CyCognito was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 CyCognito. 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 105 of the 106 answers that named CyCognito and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
synack.com64
paloaltonetworks.com56
upguard.com54
cycognito.comYour site48
wiz.io47
guideflow.com43
heimdalsecurity.com36
attaxion.com35
g2.com32
gartner.com32
399 of the 447 domain citations in answers naming CyCognito came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cycognito.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CyCognito takes 6% of first choices and Intruder takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cycognito.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CyCognito takes 6% of first choices and Intruder takes 49%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “attack surface management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “attack surface management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“cycognito”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 9,935 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,953 · 181 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,471
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
6%
rank 4 of 100 in ASM
Segment leader
49%
Intruder
- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 106 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 105 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cycognito.com
742
subdomains included
Content
592
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
25 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 250 | 17 | 2026-09-23 | ASM, SD-WAN | |
| Glossary or explainer | 192 | 0 | 2026-03-16 | ASM, WAF | |
| News or press | 52 | 0 | 2019-11-19 | ASM, WAF | |
| Report or ebook | 44 | undated | ASM | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 22 | 1 | 2026-09-14 | ASM | |
| Case study | 14 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 7 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 7 | 0 | 2021-04-07 | SAST | |
| Template or tool | 4 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Emerging threat cve 2026 94545 next js remote code execution via imageresponse svg injection blog
- 2026-09-22Emerging threat cve 2026 69197 umbraco cms protected content disclosure via delivery api expansion blog
- 2026-09-16Emerging threat cve 2026 70756 oracle weblogic server takeover via t3 and iiop blog
- 2026-09-15Emerging threat cve 2026 76461 cisco secure email gateway root rce via email parsing blog
- 2026-09-14Emerging threat cve 2026 78006 the events calendar remote code execution via php object injection blog
- 2026-09-14Introducing the cycognito mcp server full exposure context on demand webinar or virtual event
Events in person
Last twelve months
- November 18, 2025 to November 20, 2025Meet CyCognito at mysecurityevent 2025 in StuttgartStuttgart, Germany · sponsored
As the event pages on cycognito.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cycognito.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 CyCognito
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CyCognito; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
CyCognito is its own company.ShowHide
The company
CyCognito is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Preemptive Exposure Management | ASM Leader
- For
- enterprise security teams
- Price stated
- Pricing varies based on customer needs. Contact for a custom quote. cycognito.com
- Starting price
- 0.00 cycognito.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free Risk Assessment cycognito.com
- Customers named
- BerlitzColgate PalmoliveStröerDeloitteScientific GamesHuman APIAsklepiosFinancial Services
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What CyCognito's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cycognito.com, cycognito.com/solutions/uvm.php, cycognito.com/customers, cycognito.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 CyCognito'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 CyCognito, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for CyCognito by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where CyCognito 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 CyCognito, 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.