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1 category · Named, not ranked

SANS

15Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

9 / 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SANS was named 4 times in Secure code training, where SecureFlag led with 26%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business87 of 87

under the label threshold

Mid-market97 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprise40 of 65

under the label threshold

In secure code training · 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 SANS 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
Secure code training	Developer platform	0%	97 of 97	75%	4	under 10 labels · led by SecureFlag at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SANS 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 SANS 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 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.

“Best "premium training curriculum" option: SANS” GPT-5.4 mini · Secure code training · 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.

“Premier traditional option; ideal for teams wanting structured classroom-style courses (more expensive)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Secure code training · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“SANS courses: Highly regarded for depth but often called out as "very expensive" on Reddit” Grok 4.1 Fast · Secure code training · negative prompt · soft negative

“SANS/GIAC - Comprehensive but intensive and expensive” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Secure code training · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SANS, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SANS was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Secure Code Warrior14 of 154Not among the top eight

SecureFlag11 of 156Not among the top eight

Security Journey9 of 150Not among the top eight

Snyk Learn7 of 150Not among the top eight

SafeStack Academy6 of 154Not among the top eight

Veracode Security Labs6 of 150Not among the top eight

Checkmarx Codebashing5 of 150Not among the top eight

Avatao3 of 150Not among the top eight

Codebashing3 of 150Not among the top eight

Kontra3 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 SANS. 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 13 of the 15 answers that named SANS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ransomleak.com10

sourceforge.net10

g2.com9

securityjourney.com8

us.fitgap.com8

gartner.com7

decryptiondigest.com5

securecodewarrior.com5

top10devtraining.com5

blog.secureflag.com4

Seventy-one of the seventy-one domain citations in answers naming SANS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ransomleak.com/blog/best-secure-coding-training-202610

gartner.com/reviews/market/secure-code-training-tools7

sourceforge.net/software/secure-code-training7

us.fitgap.com/search/secure-code-training-software/enterprise6

decryptiondigest.com/blog/developer-security-training-platform-comparison-safestack-secure5

g2.com/categories/secure-code-training5

top10devtraining.com/guides/owasp-top-10-training-cost-comparison5

blog.secureflag.com/2026/09/25/best-secure-coding-training-platforms4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

sans.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SANS takes 0% of first choices and SecureFlag takes 26%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “secure code training platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “secure code training platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 201,000 a month (“sans”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2,165,150 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 703,543 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 20,088 · 1,637 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 28,475
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

119+ ads · 94 text, 18 image, 7 video · 81 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as THE ESCAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 37 in the year, 82 before. 1 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 97 of 97 in secure code training

Segment leader

26%

SecureFlag

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 15 answers
Its own site cited: in 13 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on sans.org

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	50	31	2026-09-29
News or press	11	undated
Conference or event	6	4	2027-01-15
Report or ebook	2	undated
Podcast or video	1	undated

Most recent

2027-01-15Cyber threat intelligence summit 2027 conference or event
2026-10-14Ai summit fall 2026 conference or event
2026-09-29Behavior change is not the finish line blog
2026-09-28Digital forensics summit 2026 conference or event
2026-09-28Questions critical infrastructure leaders should be asking blog
2026-09-21Cybersecurity claims we must pace frontier blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page sans.org 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 SANS

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SANS; a claim can dispute any of them.

SANS/GIAC 1

Follow SANS

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

SANS is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Cybersecurity Training, Degrees and Resources; "The Highest Standard in Cybersecurity Education Since 1989"
sans.org
For: cybersecurity professionals
sans.org
Free plan or trial: Join - It's Free sans.org
Certifications: GIAC certifications
Customers named: Microsoft CorpXeroxNetJets Inc.
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What SANS's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: sans.org. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when SANS's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as SANS, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where SANS 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 SANS, 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.