Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 52 of 65, unchanged
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR
5Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
5 / 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. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR was named 1 time in MDR, where Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response led with 37%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market55 of 67
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise20 of 67
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
In mdr · 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 Networks Cortex XDR MDR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 55 of 67 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · MDR · by segment
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 21 of 60, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 55 of 67, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
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 labelNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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 Networks Cortex XDR MDR, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Networks Cortex XDR MDR. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
crowdstrike.com4
cynet.com3
huntress.com3
intezer.com3
mdrproviders.io3
paloaltonetworks.comYour site3
rapid7.com3
accenture.com2
decryptiondigest.com2
forrester.com2
Twenty-five of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
paloaltonetworks.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR takes 0% of first choices and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
paloaltonetworks.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR takes 0% of first choices and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response takes 37%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “mdr service”
2
Position for “mdr services”
–
not in the top ten
- Organic visits to its site
- about 951,391 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 58,184 · 9,191 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 44,945
- Paid Google search
- 6 searches its ads show for, about 15 clicks and $383 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 55 of 67 in MDR
Segment leader
37%
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 5 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 5 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on paloaltonetworks.com
13,055
subdomains included
Content
7,351
counted in the table below
Documentation
16
Product · Integration
15 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,467 | 39 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1,861 | 0 | 2011-10-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 535 | 0 | 2015-08-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 430 | 0 | 2022-07-04 | ||
| News or press | 408 | 0 | 2018-12-01 | ||
| Case study | 351 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 104 | 0 | 2019-08-08 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 87 | 0 | 2018-07-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 87 | 0 | 2018-04-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated |
Most recent
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- 2026-09-253 consulting myths debunked by unit 42 experts blog
- 2026-09-25Securing the ai coding frontier prisma airs agentic endpoint security blog
- 2026-09-22Palo alto networks named a visionary leader in the frost radar healthcare infrastructure cybersecurity united states 202 blog
- 2026-09-16Cortex xdr is the only endpoint security market leader to be certified by av comparatives 7 years in a row blog
- 2026-09-15Cortex data security ga dlp ddr blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page paloaltonetworks.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR is its own company.
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Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Get 24/7 Expert-Managed Endpoint Defense
- For
- your SOC
- Certifications
- Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection PlatformsOnly Endpoint Security Market Leader Certified in AVC’s 2026 EDR Detection Test100% Detection in MITRE ATT&CK: Enterprise Evaluations Round 6Approved: AV-Comparatives Anti-TamperingCertified: AV-Comparatives EDR Detection ValidationAAA-Rated with 100% Prevention in the July 2025 SE Labs Ransomware TestThe Only Market Leader with 99% Prevention in the 2025 AVC EPR Test
- Customers named
- Asante HealthNorth Dakota ITKavakWits UniversityGlacier Bancorp
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xdr, paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/xdr-vs-mdr, paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/mdr-solutions, paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/detection-and-response, paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/endpoint-detection-and-response. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR MDR 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 Networks Cortex XDR MDR, 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.