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Leading Cybersecurity Brands in AI Search in Italy

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, CrowdStrike leads AI search visibility in Cybersecurity on AI Mode in Italy with a Goodie visibility score of 74.2, ahead of Huntress (73.3) and Accenture (72.6). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 72.0, and a score above 68.2 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 6.2% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 40.6%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Cybersecurity · AI Mode
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
72.0
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 72.2
Score to enter the top 10
68.2
Clearing 68.2 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.9 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
9.0
A typical answer names nine brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.7
Citation mix
  • UGC 8%
  • Video 5%
  • Reference 4%
  • Other 83%
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
40.6%
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
59/100
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
01CrowdStrike
74.2
10.4%AI Mode▲ 4.259youtube.com
02Huntress
73.3
10.2%AI Mode—53huntress.com
03Accenture
72.6
10.2%AI Mode▲ 3.067atlantsecurity.com
04Mandiant
72.4
10.1%AI Mode—79corpsoft.io
05SentinelOne
72.1
10.1%AI Mode—41sentinelone.com
06Palo Alto Networks
71.9
10.1%AI Mode▼ 7.058youtube.com
07ZTNA
70.8
9.9%AI Mode▲ 8.560fortinet.com
08Microsoft Security Copilot
70.8
9.9%AI Mode▲ 7.350youtube.com
09Deloitte
69.1
9.7%AI Mode▲ 4.364atlantsecurity.com
10PwC
68.2
9.5%AI Mode▼ 4.262atlantsecurity.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
01youtube.com
6.2%
—
02qualysec.com
6.0%
—
03fortinet.com
4.8%
—
04deepstrike.io
4.5%
—
05paloaltonetworks.com
4.5%
—
06linkedin.com
3.7%
—
07ciobulletin.com
3.6%
—
08builtin.com
3.2%
—
09checkpoint.com
3.0%
—
10cm-alliance.com
2.8%
—
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
01Business security tools beyond basic antivirus35153
02Cybersecurity consulting firms trusted by large enterprises39111
03Which cybersecurity solutions suit mid size companies?3898
04Network security platforms used in regulated industries3086
05Per un'azienda media, quale soluzione di cybersecurity ha senso?713
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
ZTNAscore 70.8
▲ 8.5
▲ 7.3
Deloittescore 69.1
▲ 4.3
Falling
▼ 7.0
PwCscore 68.2
▼ 4.2
7 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.5/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
702,003 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Cybersecurity, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States222K
02Saudi Arabia172K
03United Kingdom157K
04Germany34K
05Italy33K
06France18K
07Egypt15K
08Australia14K
09Japan14K
10United Arab Emirates10K
11Canada9K
12Singapore5K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

CrowdStrike leads Cybersecurity this edition with a visibility score of 74.2, ahead of Huntress at 73.3.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding cybersecurity answers, at roughly 6.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 40.6% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked cybersecurity brands is 72.0, and a score above 68.2 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?
We Have
the Answers.

CrowdStrike currently leads AI search visibility in cybersecurity with a Goodie visibility score of 74.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in cybersecurity AI answers, grounding roughly 6.2% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked cybersecurity brands is 72.0. A score above 68.2 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.