Subcategory · AI Citation Index
Cloud Security
The cloud security category reveals robust vendor agreement across 92 consensus brands, yet evaluation remains concentrated on just 12 providers. Orca Security and Azure's Secure and Well-Managed Cloud offering lead shortlist rates (51-64%), while established players like Okta, CrowdStrike, and Cloudflare maintain strong positioning. The absence of prompt coverage suggests models rely entirely on training data rather than explicit category definitions, raising questions about recency and emerging vendor representation.
134 discovery queries · 233 head-to-heads · refreshed Sep 24, 2026
Discovery stage
The shortlist
Across 134 buyer-style "Cloud Security" queries
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Signal by intent
By topic
Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.
AkamaiEvaluation stage
Head-to-head
How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 6/100
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Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.
Trends
Over the last 12 months
Brands to know
In this category
Orca Security
Leads shortlist rate at 64% with perfect model diversity, reflecting strong market recognition for agentless cloud security posture management.
Read brand profile →Azure Secure and Well-Managed Cloud
Appears three times at varying rates (51-64%), indicating Microsoft's multi-faceted cloud security positioning across different use cases.
Read brand profile →Crowdstrike
Dual presence at 54% and 57% suggests models recognize both endpoint and cloud workload protection capabilities with consistent cross-model agreement.
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Where AI pulls citations from
473 citations captured across Cloud Security prompt runs.
Vendor pages
203Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors
Independent sources
89Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned
Buyer questions
What AI cites for top Cloud Security questions
Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.
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