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Leading Cybersecurity Brands in AI Search in Australia

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only ChatGPT answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Forescout leads AI search visibility in Cybersecurity on ChatGPT in Australia with a Goodie visibility score of 74.1, ahead of Cisco (73.4) and Sophos (72.6). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 69.4, and a score above 63.6 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is gartner.com at 7.3% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 45.2%.

35k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 11.9m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Cybersecurity · ChatGPT
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
69.4
Half of the 10 ranked cybersecurity brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 70.1
Score to enter the top 10
63.6
Clearing 63.6 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 5.8 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
11.6
A typical answer names twelve brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.3
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 8%
  • Reference 11%
  • Other 78%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding cybersecurity answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
45.2%
Owned content is unusually strong here, brand domains are a citation source in their own right rather than just the subject of third-party coverage.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
31/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.6m
319k in October · ▲ 11.9% vs September
Citations parsed
11.9m
956k in October · ▲ 0.2% vs September
Brands observed
748
10 ranked here · 738 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Cybersecurity, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Forescout
74.1
10.6%ChatGPT—20apra.gov.au
02Cisco
73.4
10.5%ChatGPT—27gartner.com
03Sophos
72.6
10.4%ChatGPT▲ 1.826microsoft.com
04Proofpoint
72.6
10.4%ChatGPT▼ 2.08cyber.gov.au
05SentinelOne
69.8
10.0%ChatGPT—48gartner.com
06Mimecast
69.1
9.9%ChatGPT—0cipherssecurity.com
07Microsoft Security Copilot
68.4
9.8%ChatGPT—34gartner.com
08CrowdStrike
68.1
9.8%ChatGPT—59gartner.com
09Bitdefender
64.8
9.3%ChatGPT—504it.com.au
10Tufin
63.6
9.1%ChatGPT—39sentrixa.net
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Cybersecurity
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01gartner.com
7.3%
▼ 12.4
02nist.gov
7.0%
▲ 3.2
03wikipedia.org
4.1%
—
04microsoft.com
3.7%
▼ 2.5
05deloitte.com
3.0%
▼ 1.6
064it.com.au
2.7%
—
07reddit.com
2.5%
—
08itpro.com
2.4%
—
09zscaler.com
2.3%
▲ 1.1
10cyber.gov.au
2.3%
▼ 0.8
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Cybersecurity, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Network security platforms used in regulated industries8353
02Business security tools beyond basic antivirus2051
03Enterprise security platforms with strong market reputation5442
04Which cybersecurity solutions suit mid size companies?4841
05Cybersecurity consulting firms trusted by large enterprises3734
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Sophosscore 72.6
▲ 1.8
Falling
Proofpointscore 72.6
▼ 2.0
2 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.9/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
1,469,619 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Cybersecurity, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United Kingdom400K
02United States394K
03Saudi Arabia342K
04Germany68K
05France63K
06Italy62K
07Canada34K
08Egypt28K
09Australia27K
10Japan24K
11United Arab Emirates19K
12Singapore10K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Forescout leads Cybersecurity this edition with a visibility score of 74.1, ahead of Cisco at 73.4.

gartner.com is the most-cited source grounding cybersecurity answers, at roughly 7.3% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 45.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked cybersecurity brands is 69.4, and a score above 63.6 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Cybersecurity

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Forescout currently leads AI search visibility in cybersecurity with a Goodie visibility score of 74.1, measured across the tracked AI models.

gartner.com is the most-cited source in cybersecurity AI answers, grounding roughly 7.3% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked cybersecurity brands is 69.4. A score above 63.6 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.