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1 category · Named, not ranked

Okta Identity Defense

1Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

1 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Okta Identity Defense was named 1 time in ITDR, where Huntress Managed ITDR led with 51%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market15 of 105

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In itdr · 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 Okta Identity Defense 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
Identity threat detection and response	Identity and access	2%	15 of 105	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Huntress Managed ITDR at 51%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Okta Identity Defense 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 Okta Identity Defense 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 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.

“Start with Okta Identity Defense if you want the most robust detection specifically tuned for identity protocols” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ITDR · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Okta Identity Defense, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Okta Identity Defense was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Security1 of 10Not among the top eight

Exabeam1 of 10Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender for Identity + Entra ID1 of 10Not among the top eight

Splunk1 of 10Not 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.

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

where Okta Identity Defense 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 Okta Identity Defense, 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.