Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 15 → 14 of 71
1 category · Named, not rankedSoftware Secured
7Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative 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
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Software Secured was named 4 times in PTaaS, where Cobalt led with 45%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business15 of 76
2%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market10 of 82
2%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise59 of 67
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In ptaas · 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 Software Secured 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penetration testing as a service | Security operations | 2% | 10 of 82 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 45% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Software Secured held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · PTaaS · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 10 of 74
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 29 → 56 of 63
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTaaS | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 10 of 82 |
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 Software Secured 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 Software Secured 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Paraphrase2 labels2
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained3 labels1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.
“I would recommend considering Cobalt or Software Secured” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PTaaS · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Focuses on developer-friendly, recurring tests that are easier to budget for” Mistral Small · PTaaS · budget prompt · alternative
“Software Secured — Best Mid-Budget Manual Testing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PTaaS · budget 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 Software Secured, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Software Secured was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Software Secured, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Software Secured 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 Software Secured. 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 7 answers that named Software Secured and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
softwaresecured.comYour site5
beaglesecurity.com4
deepstrike.io4
getastra.com3
synack.com3
underdefense.com3
brightdefense.com2
defendify.com2
g2.com2
netragard.com2
Twenty-five of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Software Secured came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
softwaresecured.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Software Secured takes 2% of first choices and Cobalt takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
softwaresecured.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Software Secured takes 2% of first choices and Cobalt takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “penetration testing service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “penetration testing services”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 480 a month (“software secured”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,088 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,266 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 760 · 54 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 727
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 10 of 82 in ptaas
Segment leader
45%
Cobalt
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 7 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 7 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 softwaresecured.com
360
subdomains included
Content
215
counted in the table below
Documentation
30
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 113 | 10 | 2026-09-23 | SAST, Patching | |
| Case study | 37 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 26 | 17 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Comparison | 17 | 4 | 2026-09-14 | SAST, SCA | |
| Conference or event | 11 | undated | SAST | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | 0 | 2026-05-30 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Cmmc penetration testing requirements template or tool
- 2026-09-24Hipaa penetration testing requirements template or tool
- 2026-09-24Hitrust csf penetration testing requirements guide template or tool
- 2026-09-24Iso 27001 penetration testing requirements template or tool
- 2026-09-24Mythos ready application security checklist template or tool
- 2026-09-24Nist 800 53 moderate pentesting requirements guide template or tool
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page softwaresecured.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.
Follow Software Secured
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The company
Software Secured is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Software Secured is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- B2B Manual Penetration Testing Provider USA
- For
- B2B SaaS companies
- Price stated
- Transparent Pricing for Scalable Application Security softwaresecured.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 5000 softwaresecured.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- null softwaresecured.com/subtopic/compliance
- Certifications
- OSCPOSWEGWAPTcloud certificationsSOC 2HIPAAISO 27001PCI DSS
- Hosting
- USCA
- Customers named
- Cordial SystemsCompanyCamCira
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Software Secured's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: softwaresecured.com, softwaresecured.com/pricing, softwaresecured.com/subtopic/compliance, softwaresecured.com/case-studies, softwaresecured.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Software Secured'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 Software Secured, 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 Software Secured by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Software Secured 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 Software Secured, 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.