Every category where a model named Google Security Operations 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
AI SOC agents	Security operations	2%	14 of 104	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Dropzone AI at 24%
SIEM platforms	Security operations	0%	13 of 61	0%	17	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
AI security platforms	Security operations	0%	103 of 233	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	49 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 28%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google Security Operations 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 Google Security Operations 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	2	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.20	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	4	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	3	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	2	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	1	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct20 labels2

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative30 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels6

Scale-constrained11 labelsNone

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative88 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 8 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 suggest starting with Microsoft Sentinel or Google Security Operations” MiniMax M2.5 · AI SOC agents · budget prompt · first choice

“worth considering if you are heavily Google Cloud–centric, but I'd only pick it over Sentinel if your stack is already anchored there” GPT-5.4 mini · SIEM · direct prompt · alternative

“Google Security Operations \u2013 Threat hunting and rapid investigation with integrated SOAR and Mandiant threat intelligence.” Muse Glimmer 30B · SIEM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best fit: organizations heavily invested in Google Cloud or looking for cloud-native security operations at scale.” GPT-5.4 mini · SIEM · comparative 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 Google Security Operations, over the 88 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Security Operations was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Sentinel56 of 8823Not among the top eight

Splunk Enterprise Security53 of 889Not among the top eight

IBM QRadar41 of 880Not among the top eight

Elastic Security33 of 880Not among the top eight

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM31 of 882Not among the top eight

Exabeam25 of 880Not among the top eight

Securonix Unified Defense SIEM23 of 880Not among the top eight

Rapid7 InsightIDR21 of 881Not among the top eight

Dropzone AI18 of 884Not among the top eight

Torq16 of 884Not 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 Google Security Operations. 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 85 of the 88 answers that named Google Security Operations and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

underdefense.com49

paloaltonetworks.com33

g2.com22

exabeam.com20

panther.com20

securityboulevard.com19

splunk.com19

cloud.google.com18

expertinsights.com18

learn.microsoft.com17

235 of the 235 domain citations in answers naming Google Security Operations came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

underdefense.com/blog/siem-solutions-comparison24

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/siem-tools-comparison19

manageengine.com/log-management/top-siem-tools.html15

intezer.com/guides/ai-soc/how-to-compare-agentic-soc-platforms14

panther.com/blog/best-siem-tools14

g2.com/categories/ai-soc-agents11

resources.rework.com/tools/ai-agents/best-ai-agents-for-cybersecurity-202611

exabeam.com/explainers/siem-tools/siem-buyers-guide10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

google.dev is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Google Security Operations takes 2% of first choices and Dropzone AI takes 24%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “ai soc agent”

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not in the top ten

Position for “ai soc agents”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 390 a month (“google security operations”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 5 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 881,346 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 22,650 · 2,977 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 29,239
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 120 text · 109 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2025, as Google LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 103 in the year, 17 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 14 of 104 in AI SOC agents

Segment leader

24%

Dropzone AI

First choices: 8 across its categories
Named in: 88 answers
Its own site cited: in 85 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 Google Security Operations

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

Google SecOps 4Chronicle (Google) 2Google SecOps (Chronicle) 2Google Security Operations (formerly Chronicle) 2Google Security Operations / Chronicle 2Chronicle 1Google 1Google Chronicle 1Google Chronicle (now Google SecOps) 1Google SecOps (Chronicle + Gemini) 1Google Security Operations (Chronicle) 1Google Security Operations (Gemini-native agents) 1Google Security Operations (Google SecOps) 1Google Security Operations (SecOps) 1Google Security Operations (w/ Gemini) 1

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The company

Google Security Operations is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The intelligence-driven and AI-powered security operations platform
cloud.google.com/security/products/security-operations
For: security teams
cloud.google.com/security/products/security-operations
Price stated: Google Security Operations is available in packages and based on ingestion. Includes one year of security telemetry retention at no additional cost. cloud.google.com/security/products/security-operations
Integrations claimed: 300 cloud.google.com/security/products/security-operations
Customers named: EtsyVertivPfizerApex FinTech Solutions
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, hosting

What Google Security Operations's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cloud.google.com/security/products/security-operations, google.dev. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Google Security Operations 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 Google Security Operations, 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.