We ask three versions of the same question and count how often each product comes back. A name that appears in all three is the one a buyer meets whichever way they phrase it.
Week 2026-W43, 3 answers.
1Crowdstrike Falconnamed 3 of 3
2Splunk Enterprise Securitynamed 3 of 3
3Microsoft Defender For Endpointnamed 2 of 3
4Fortigatenamed 2 of 3
5Microsoft Sentinelnamed 2 of 3
6Qualys Vmdrnamed 2 of 3
7Wiznamed 2 of 3
8Sentinelone Singularitynamed 1 of 3
9Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xdrnamed 1 of 3
10Cisco Secure Firewallnamed 1 of 3
11Ibm Qradarnamed 1 of 3
12Nessusnamed 1 of 3
13Metasploitnamed 1 of 3
14Nmapnamed 1 of 3
15Palo Alto Networks Next-Gen Firewallnamed 1 of 3
Asked of Gemini, three phrasings per category, once a week, and written down as it answered. A model does not answer the same way twice, which is why the count is out of three rather than a yes or a no, and why a week that was recorded is never asked again.