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Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security

15Judge labels

0First choices

8Negative labels

6 / 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security was named 3 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 business96 of 96

under the label threshold

Mid-market73 of 107

under the label threshold

Enterprise46 of 68

under the label threshold

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 Networks IoT/OT Security 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%	73 of 107	33%	3	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 Networks IoT/OT Security 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 Networks IoT/OT Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 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.

“a comprehensive solution delivering ML-powered visibility, prevention, and zero-trust enforcement in a single platform” Llama 4 Maverick · OT/IoT security · paraphrase 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.

“expensive pricing, a difficult learning curve, and complex setup compared to OT-native rivals” DeepSeek V4 Flash · OT/IoT security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender for IoT14 of 155Not among the top eight

Claroty xDome10 of 152Not among the top eight

Armis Centrix10 of 151Not among the top eight

Dragos Platform8 of 152Not among the top eight

Nozomi Networks Guardian8 of 151Not among the top eight

Forescout Vistaro Platform6 of 152Not among the top eight

AWS IoT Device Defender5 of 150Not among the top eight

Fortinet OT Security Platform3 of 152Not among the top eight

Forcepoint2 of 150Not among the top eight

Google Cloud IoT Core2 of 150Not 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 Networks IoT/OT Security. 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 15 of the 15 answers that named Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com14

holidaylandmark.com7

networkintelligence.ai7

us.fitgap.com7

security.toolsinfo.com6

sourceforge.net6

paloaltonetworks.comYour site5

devopsschool.com4

gartner.com4

opsiocloud.com4

Fifty-nine of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

g2.com/categories/ot-security-tools7

holidaylandmark.com/blog/top-10-iot-security-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison7

networkintelligence.ai/blogs/best-ot-security-services7

g2.com/categories/iot-security-solutions5

paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/assets/pdf/Omdia__Market%20Radar%20OT%20Cyberse5

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-iot-security-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison4

g2.com/categories/iot-security-solutions/enterprise4

g2.com/products/palo-alto-networks-iot-ot-security/reviews4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: not counted (“palo alto networks iot/ot security”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: It sits on Palo Alto Networks's site (paloaltonetworks.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 73 of 107 in ot/iot security

Segment leader

21%

Microsoft Defender for IoT

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 15 answers
Its own site cited: in 15 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.

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The company

Palo Alto Networks is the company behind Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security.

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On record

Company records

Also from Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Palo Alto Networks DLP, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Palo Alto Networks Enterprise DLP, Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect and 21 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: OT security has often been framed as a problem of isolation — keeping industrial systems separate from external threats. The reality is more complex. As connectivity increases, isolation alone is no longer sufficient, nor is it realistic.
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/ot-edge-security
For: Industrial organizations
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/ot-edge-security
Free plan or trial: Free Trial paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/ot-device-security
Certifications: IEC 62443IEC-62443
Customers named: BorgWarnerGrupo BimboBrisaavrasyaGlobeflexSchlumbergerTurkcell Global Bilgi
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/ot-edge-security, paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/ot-device-security, paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/ot-security-solution, paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/iot-security-vs-ot-security, paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/ot-vs-ics-vs-scada-security. 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 Networks IoT/OT Security by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security 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 IoT/OT Security, 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.