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Index › Products › SCYTHE · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

SCYTHE

8Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative 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. SCYTHE was named 3 times in BAS, where Cymulate led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business56 of 58

under the label threshold

Mid-market23 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprise12 of 66

under the label threshold

In bas · 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 SCYTHE 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
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	0%	23 of 74	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SCYTHE 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 SCYTHE 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	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
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	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative6 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“Choose Scythe if you want to validate your Incident Response Plan and prove to leadership that your SOC is effective.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · BAS · comparative prompt · first choice

“Choose AttackIQ or Scythe if you have an active purple team” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SCYTHE, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SCYTHE was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SafeBreach8 of 83Not among the top eight

Cymulate7 of 84Not among the top eight

AttackIQ7 of 81Not among the top eight

Pentera6 of 80Not among the top eight

Picus Security Validation Platform5 of 82Not among the top eight

XM Cyber4 of 80Not among the top eight

NodeZero1 of 81Not among the top eight

Vonahi Security vPenTest1 of 81Not among the top eight

Adaptive Security1 of 80Not among the top eight

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation1 of 80Not 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 SCYTHE. 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 7 of the 8 answers that named SCYTHE and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

scythe.ioYour site6

startupstash.com6

adaptivesecurity.com4

attackiq.com4

gbhackers.com4

picussecurity.com4

cymulate.com3

gartner.com3

guideflow.com3

reddit.com3

Thirty-four of the forty domain citations in answers naming SCYTHE came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startupstash.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools6

scythe.io/library/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-aev-tools-20265

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/top-bas-platforms-to-strengthen-security-in-20254

gbhackers.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-vendors4

gbhackers.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-tools3

guideflow.com/blog/breach-and-attack-simulation-software3

attackiq.com/competitor/cymulate-vs-attackiq2

cybersectalk.com/2021/04/14/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-products-compared2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

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Addresses on scythe.io

235

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

72 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	11	undated
Conference or event	8	0	2020-02-26
Report or ebook	3	undated
Comparison	3	0	2026-04-17	BAS
Glossary or explainer	2	0	2025-05-18
Case study	1	1	2026-09-26
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2020-05-29

Most recent

2026-09-26Real world testing at electric substations a scythe case study case study
2026-04-17Cybersecurity simulation vs cybersecurity emulation scythe comparison
2025-05-18What is continuous security controls validation glossary or explainer
2020-05-29Measuring cyber risk webinar with bryson bort paul rosenzweig webinar or virtual event
2020-02-26Bryson bort chris krebs ics discussion at rsa conference 2020 conference or event
2018-10-03What is scythes origin story glossary or explainer

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page scythe.io 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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as SCYTHE

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

Scythe 2

Follow SCYTHE

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

SCYTHE is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Adversarial Exposure Validation platform for continuous security control testing across IT, cloud, and OT/ICS environments.
scythe.io
For: Security teams
scythe.io
Price stated: One price. Everything included. Scoped to your environment, not the number of users or agents you deploy. scythe.io
Free plan or trial: Start Free Trial scythe.io/platform
Integrations claimed: 11 scythe.io/platform
Certifications: SOC 2 Type II Certified
Customers named: OG&EBlack Hills Information SecurityDupaco Community Credit UnionGula Tech VenturesUS Electric UtilityGlobal Insurance EnterpriseLarge Municipal GovernmentUS Utilities Provider
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, hosting

What SCYTHE's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: scythe.io, scythe.io/pricing, scythe.io/platform. 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 SCYTHE'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 SCYTHE, 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 SCYTHE by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where SCYTHE 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 SCYTHE, 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.