Microsoft Secure Score
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS security posture management | Security operations | 2% | 15 of 95 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Wing Security at 30% | |
| Microsoft 365 management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 64 of 149 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by CoreView at 20% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Microsoft Secure Score across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you have a very tight budget, begin with free tools like Microsoft Secure Score or Google Workspace Security Checklist.” Mistral Small · SSPM · budget prompt · first choice
“Start free: Use Microsoft Secure Score or Google Security Checklist immediately.” Kimi K2 · SSPM · budget prompt · alternative
“Security posture | Microsoft Secure Score + proper Defender deployment” DeepSeek V4 Flash · M365 management · negative 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Secure Score, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Secure Score was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 21 of the 21 answers that named Microsoft Secure Score and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
119 of the 119 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Secure Score came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Microsoft Secure Score stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“microsoft secure score”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 76 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Microsoft's site (microsoft.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 21 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 21 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.
Follow Microsoft Secure Score
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.
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The company
Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Secure Score.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Microsoft
- Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Administration, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 DSC and 164 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- tracking progress along the way with the Microsoft Secure Score in Defender
- Customers named
- International Center for Journalists
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Microsoft Secure Score's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1795897567810551344-icfj-microsoft-secure-score-nonprofit-en-united-states. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Microsoft Secure Score'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 Microsoft Secure Score, 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 Microsoft Secure Score by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Microsoft Secure Score 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 Microsoft Secure Score, 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.