Every category where a model named Tenable Cloud 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
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	11 of 53	5%	21	accepted challenger
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	23 of 57	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 46%
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	86 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	58 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Tenable Cloud Security yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Tenable Cloud Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	3	1	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	3	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	2	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	2	0	4

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

Direct9 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative21 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative53 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.

“Tenable (Cloud Security) - A multicloud CSPM tool that offers vulnerability management and CIEM lineage” Llama 4 Maverick · CSPM · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best for mid-market companies that need a balance between CSPM, vulnerability management, and CIEM” Mistral Small · CSPM · direct prompt · alternative

“Best For: Enterprises whose primary driver is vulnerability management and compliance auditing” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“CrowdStrike / Tenable — good if you already use those vendors (integration leverage)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CSPM · scale 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.

“another Reddit user advised against it due to integration concerns with Tenable vulnerability scanning; again, this is anecdotal and limited” Perplexity Sonar · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Tenable Cloud Security, over the 53 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tenable Cloud Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz52 of 5330Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud42 of 533Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud39 of 536Not in the top three

Orca Security31 of 534Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security27 of 530Not in the top three

Sysdig15 of 530Not in the top three

Prowler14 of 534Not in the top three

Aqua Security14 of 531Not in the top three

Uptycs13 of 530Not in the top three

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security12 of 530Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Tenable Cloud Security. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 50 of the 53 answers that named Tenable Cloud Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org42

cloudaware.com35

gbhackers.com33

expertinsights.com29

cybersecuritynews.com28

orca.security25

techrepublic.com21

gartner.com18

complyjet.com14

decryptiondigest.com13

258 of the 258 domain citations in answers naming Tenable Cloud Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors34

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-232

gbhackers.com/best-cspm-compared26

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cspm-tools22

orca.security/resources/blog/best-cspm-tools21

techrepublic.com/article/best-cspm-tools21

expertinsights.com/cloud-security/the-top-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm-solutions19

complyjet.com/blog/best-cspm-tools14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Tenable Cloud Security

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

Tenable 10Ermetic 3Tenable (Cloud Security) 1Tenable.io / Tenable Cloud Security 1

Is this your product?

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 Tenable Cloud Security'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 Tenable Cloud Security, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at tenable.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.