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1 category · Named, not ranked

vCISO Lite

13Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

8 / 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

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. vCISO Lite was named 7 times in Cyber risk quant, where CyberSaint CyberStrong led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business16 of 145

under the label threshold

Mid-market23 of 116

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In cyber risk quant · 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 vCISO Lite 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
Cyber risk quantification	Security operations	0%	23 of 116	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by CyberSaint CyberStrong at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for vCISO Lite 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 vCISO Lite 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1
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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labels1

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“If your team is small or lacks dedicated risk expertise, consider a platform-augmented solution like vCISO Lite or Safe One.” Mistral Small · Cyber risk quant · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“If your needs are very modest, vCISO Lite offers a lighter-weight, budget-friendly entry point.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cyber risk quant · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Platform-augmented services like vCISO Lite (FAIR in a subscription, 10-30x cheaper)” Grok 4.20 · Cyber risk quant · direct prompt · alternative

“then upgrading to vCISO Lite if you need formal FAIR-based quantification” MiniMax M2.5 · Cyber risk quant · 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 vCISO Lite, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and vCISO Lite was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Kovrr9 of 132Not among the top eight

Axio6 of 130Not among the top eight

SAFE Security6 of 130Not among the top eight

RiskLens5 of 130Not among the top eight

CyberSaint CyberStrong4 of 132Not among the top eight

Resilience3 of 131Not among the top eight

FairCRQ2 of 131Not among the top eight

LogicGate Risk Cloud Quantify2 of 131Not among the top eight

Maxxsure2 of 131Not among the top eight

Balbix2 of 130Not 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 vCISO Lite. 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 13 answers that named vCISO Lite and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

vcisolite.comYour site13

f6s.com9

riskpublishing.com9

trycomp.ai9

itechguides.com8

g2.com7

cybersaint.io6

kovrr.com5

palomarr.com5

worldmetrics.org5

Sixty-three of the seventy-six domain citations in answers naming vCISO Lite came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

vcisolite.com/blog/crq-tools-and-platforms-202613

trycomp.ai/hub/top-risk-management-software9

riskpublishing.com/best-cyber-risk-quantification-platforms-compar8

f6s.com/software/category/cyber-risk-quantification7

itechguides.com/best/cyber-risk-quantification-tools6

cybersaint.io/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-cyber-risk-quantification-company-for-your-need5

f6s.com/software/category/cyber-risk-assessment5

g2.com/categories/cyber-risk-quantification-crq-tools5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

vcisolite.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, vCISO Lite takes 0% of first choices and CyberSaint CyberStrong takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “cyber risk quantification tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “cyber risk quantification tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: not counted (“vciso lite”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 12 · 0 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 409
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

3 ads · 3 text · 1 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2026, as vCISO Lite, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 3 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 23 of 116 in cyber risk quant

Segment leader

25%

CyberSaint CyberStrong

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 13 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 vcisolite.com

288

subdomains included

Content

160

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

11 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	115	undated	GRC, TPRM
Comparison	26	undated
News or press	11	undated
Template or tool	4	undated
Glossary or explainer	4	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page vcisolite.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. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow vCISO Lite

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.

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The company

vCISO Lite is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The AI-Powered Compliance and Cyber Risk Platform
vcisolite.com
For: SMB and mid-market companies
vcisolite.com
Price stated: Sold as one product from $299/month. vcisolite.com
Starting price: 299 vcisolite.com
Integrations claimed: 20 vcisolite.com/pricing
Certifications: SOC 2ISO 27001HIPAAPCI DSSGDPRNIST CSFCMMCFedRAMP
Hosting: United States
Not stated on the pages read: Free plan or trial, customers

What vCISO Lite's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: vcisolite.com, vcisolite.com/pricing, vcisolite.com/trust, vcisolite.com/features/compliance, vcisolite.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 vCISO Lite'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 vCISO Lite, 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 vCISO Lite by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where vCISO Lite 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 vCISO Lite, 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.