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Leading Cybersecurity Brands in AI Search in Germany

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, PwC leads AI search visibility in Cybersecurity on ChatGPT in Germany with a Goodie visibility score of 71.3, ahead of KPMG (69.9) and Palo Alto Networks (69.8). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 68.4, and a score above 65.7 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is bund.de at 6.6% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 40.0%.

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
68.4
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 70.7
Score to enter the top 10
65.7
Clearing 65.7 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.7 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
10.4
A typical answer names ten brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.2
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 4%
  • Reference 9%
  • Other 85%
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
40.0%
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
50/100
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
01PwC
71.3
10.4%ChatGPT—59deloitte.com
02KPMG
69.9
10.2%ChatGPT▼ 15.255deloitte.com
03Palo Alto Networks
69.8
10.2%ChatGPT—57gartner.com
04Check Point
68.9
10.1%ChatGPT▼ 7.154gartner.com
05ZTNA
68.4
10.0%ChatGPT—45gartner.com
06Cisco
68.4
10.0%ChatGPT—41fortinet.com
07Microsoft Security Copilot
67.8
9.9%ChatGPT▼ 8.944gartner.com
08Cloudflare
67.7
9.9%ChatGPT▼ 6.148nist.gov
09CrowdStrike
66.9
9.8%ChatGPT—64gartner.com
10Sophos
65.7
9.6%ChatGPT—30gartner.com
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
01bund.de
6.6%
▼ 4.1
02gartner.com
6.4%
▼ 6.5
03wikipedia.org
5.2%
—
04nist.gov
4.4%
▼ 4.9
05cisa.gov
3.2%
▼ 5.1
06gammateksolutions.com
2.7%
—
07insidecyber.ai
2.7%
—
08zscaler.com
2.7%
—
09paloaltonetworks.com
2.6%
—
10crowdstrike.com
2.6%
—
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
01Business security tools beyond basic antivirus4449
02Cybersecurity consulting firms trusted by large enterprises2637
03Which cybersecurity solutions suit mid size companies?5336
04Enterprise security platforms with strong market reputation3334
05Welchen Cybersecurity-Berater holen sich große Unternehmen?1615
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
KPMGscore 69.9
▼ 15.2
▼ 8.9
Check Pointscore 68.9
▼ 7.1
4 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±9.3/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

PwC leads Cybersecurity this edition with a visibility score of 71.3, ahead of KPMG at 69.9.

bund.de is the most-cited source grounding cybersecurity answers, at roughly 6.6% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 40.0% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked cybersecurity brands is 68.4, and a score above 65.7 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

Questions?
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the Answers.

PwC currently leads AI search visibility in cybersecurity with a Goodie visibility score of 71.3, measured across the tracked AI models.

bund.de is the most-cited source in cybersecurity AI answers, grounding roughly 6.6% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked cybersecurity brands is 68.4. A score above 65.7 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.