Every category where a model named NCC Group 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
Penetration testing as a service	Security operations	0%	33 of 76	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for NCC Group yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated NCC Group across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	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

Direct8 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 NCC Group, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NCC Group was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bishop Fox20 of 224Not in the top three

Synack19 of 223Not in the top three

NetSPI18 of 227Not in the top three

Cobalt15 of 222Not in the top three

Mandiant11 of 220Not in the top three

HackerOne9 of 221Not in the top three

Rapid79 of 220Not in the top three

BreachLock8 of 221Not in the top three

Bugcrowd7 of 220Not in the top three

Astra Security6 of 222Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 NCC Group. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 19 of the 22 answers that named NCC Group and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

deepstrike.io14

synack.com14

cybri.com12

redbotsecurity.com9

stingrai.io9

techrepublic.com9

underdefense.com9

getastra.com8

soc2auditors.org8

softwaresecured.com8

100 of the 100 domain citations in answers naming NCC Group came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

synack.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-companies13

cybri.com/blog/best-penetration-testing-vendors10

redbotsecurity.com/penetration-testing-companies9

techrepublic.com/article/best-penetration-testing-companies9

underdefense.com/blog/penetration-testing-services9

softwaresecured.com/post/top-10-penetration-testing-vendors8

getastra.com/blog/penetration-testing/companies7

soc2auditors.org/penetration-testing-firms7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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