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Leading Cybersecurity Brands in AI Search in Germany

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Deloitte leads AI search visibility in Cybersecurity on Perplexity in Germany with a Goodie visibility score of 76.3, ahead of Microsoft Security Copilot (75.7) and Cisco (75.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 74.4, and a score above 73.3 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is cambridge.org at 4.3% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 40.3%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Cybersecurity · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
74.4
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 76.3
Score to enter the top 10
73.3
Clearing 73.3 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 1.0 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.3
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.6
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 12%
  • Other 82%
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
40.3%
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
51/100
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
01Deloitte
76.3
10.2%Perplexity—62lorikeetsecurity.com
02Microsoft Security Copilot
75.7
10.2%Perplexity▲ 0.548sentinelone.com
03Cisco
75.1
10.1%Perplexity▲ 8.641sentinelone.com
04CrowdStrike
74.6
10.0%Perplexity—47sentinelone.com
05IBM
74.4
10.0%Perplexity▲ 7.849lorikeetsecurity.com
06EY
74.4
10.0%Perplexity—55lorikeetsecurity.com
07Palo Alto Networks
74.1
9.9%Perplexity—49sentinelone.com
08PwC
74.0
9.9%Perplexity—60lorikeetsecurity.com
09KPMG
73.5
9.9%Perplexity—50lorikeetsecurity.com
10Accenture
73.3
9.8%Perplexity—53lorikeetsecurity.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
01cambridge.org
4.3%
—
02atlantsecurity.com
4.1%
—
03sentinelone.com
3.7%
▼ 3.3
04wifitalents.com
3.7%
—
05techdogs.com
3.5%
▼ 1.6
06oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
3.4%
—
07shazam.com
3.4%
—
08fortinet.com
2.9%
▼ 1.5
09cloudflare.com
2.8%
—
10kpmg.com
2.7%
—
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 industries3355
02Which cybersecurity solutions suit mid size companies?1748
03Enterprise security platforms with strong market reputation2944
04Cybersecurity consulting firms trusted by large enterprises3441
05Welchen Cybersecurity-Berater holen sich große Unternehmen?1814
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Ciscoscore 75.1
▲ 8.6
IBMscore 74.4
▲ 7.8
▲ 0.5
Falling

No falling brands this month.

3 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.6/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
35,910 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Cybersecurity, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States15K
02United Kingdom12K
03Saudi Arabia5K
04Germany1K
05Italy989
06France541
07Japan445
08Egypt423
09Australia394
10Canada295
11United Arab Emirates272
12Singapore140
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Deloitte leads Cybersecurity this edition with a visibility score of 76.3, ahead of Microsoft Security Copilot at 75.7.

cambridge.org is the most-cited source grounding cybersecurity answers, at roughly 4.3% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 40.3% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked cybersecurity brands is 74.4, and a score above 73.3 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.

Deloitte currently leads AI search visibility in cybersecurity with a Goodie visibility score of 76.3, measured across the tracked AI models.

cambridge.org is the most-cited source in cybersecurity AI answers, grounding roughly 4.3% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked cybersecurity brands is 74.4. A score above 73.3 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.