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Palo Alto Industrial OT

2Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

2 / 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Palo Alto Industrial OT was named 2 times in OT/IoT security, where Microsoft Defender for IoT led with 21%. 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-market46 of 107

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In ot/iot security · 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 Palo Alto Industrial OT 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
OT and IoT security	Security operations	0%	46 of 107	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for IoT at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Palo Alto Industrial OT 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 Palo Alto Industrial OT across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Mention	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	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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 Palo Alto Industrial OT, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Industrial OT was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Claroty xDome2 of 20Not among the top eight

Dragos Platform2 of 20Not among the top eight

Forescout Vistaro Platform2 of 20Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender for IoT2 of 20Not among the top eight

Nozomi Networks Guardian2 of 20Not among the top eight

Tenable OT Security2 of 20Not among the top eight

Armis Centrix1 of 20Not among the top eight

Fortinet OT Security Platform1 of 20Not among the top eight

TXOne1 of 20Not 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 Palo Alto Industrial OT. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Palo Alto Industrial OT and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkpoint.com2

ciopages.com2

mind-core.com2

netwitness.com2

opsiocloud.com2

shieldworkz.com2

acronis.com1

armis.com1

arxiv.org1

claroty.com1

Sixteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Industrial OT came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/ot-ics-security2

mind-core.com/blogs/how-to-choose-ot-security-company2

opsiocloud.com/blogs/ot-security-vendor-selection-guide2

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/8-ot-security-best-practices-20261

armis.com/solution-briefs/operational-technology-security1

arxiv.org/html/2502.14017v31

checkpoint.com/cyber-hub/tools-vendors/the-top-industrial-control-systems-ics-security-com1

checkpoint.com/kr/cyber-hub/tools-vendors/the-top-industrial-control-systems-ics-security-1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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The company

Palo Alto is the company behind Palo Alto Industrial OT.

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On record

Company records

Also from Palo Alto: Palo Alto Cortex, Palo Alto DNS Security, Palo Alto Enterprise DLP, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto PA-140, Palo Alto PA-Series, Palo Alto PAN-OS and 8 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The Palo Alto Networks platform provides tremendous capabilities in securing ICS and SCADA networks from advanced threats like Havex.
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/havex-game-changing-threat-industrial-control-systems-part-2
For: control systems operators; operations managers; asset owners
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/havex-game-changing-threat-industrial-control-systems-part-2
Certifications: IEC 62443
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers

What Palo Alto Industrial OT's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/havex-game-changing-threat-industrial-control-systems-part-1, unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/havex-game-changing-threat-industrial-control-systems-part-2, paloaltonetworks.com/resources/industrial-control-systems, unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/product-category/industrial-operational-technology, paloaltonetworks.com/resources/videos/industrial-ot-security-explainer-video. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Palo Alto Industrial OT by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Palo Alto Industrial OT 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 Palo Alto Industrial OT, 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.