Digital risk protection platforms: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank digital risk protection platforms by visibility and citations. 19 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Digital risk protection platforms used to monitor exposed assets, brand abuse, phishing, credential leaks, and external cyber risk across the internet. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
ZeroFox dominates this category with a visibility score of 37.5% and a citation rate of 50%, against a category average visibility of just 2.0% and average citation of 4.6%. No other brand comes close: the next ranked brand, Group-IB, records 0.0% visibility. This gap is operationally significant because buyers querying Google AI Mode for digital risk protection platforms are being served an answer landscape shaped almost entirely by a single vendor.
Group-IB and Fortra PhishLabs reveal a notable divergence between being cited and being visible. Group-IB holds a 25% citation rate despite 0.0% visibility, and Fortra PhishLabs holds 12.5% citation rate with the same zero visibility score. This means AI is pulling their content or domain authority as a reference source without surfacing them as named solutions in responses, a pattern suggesting partial trust without full narrative presence in this category.
Google AI Mode is the top engine for every brand in this dataset, indicating the audit captures a single-engine dynamic with no cross-engine distribution to analyse. The cited source list anchors heavily on third-party review and analyst content, with g2.com and gartner.com appearing alongside brand-owned domains. The presence of youtube.com and cybernx.com alongside tier-one analyst sources points to a mixed-authority sourcing pattern in how AI constructs answers here.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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ZeroFox 0% → 38% · rank #0 → #1+38pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
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| 1 |
zerofox.com
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38% | 50% | Google AI Mode |
ZeroFox leads with a composite score of 41.2 and visibility of 37.5%, sitting 35.5 percentage points above the category average visibility of 2.0%. |
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| 2 |
group-ib.com
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0% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
Group-IB earns a 25% citation rate despite 0.0% visibility, producing a composite score of 7.5 and making it the clearest example of citation without narrative presence. |
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| 3 |
fortra.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Fortra PhishLabs holds a 12.5% citation rate with zero visibility and a composite score of 3.8, the third-highest score in the category by citation alone. |
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| 4 |
recordedfuture.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Recorded Future scores 0.0 across all metrics, meaning it achieves no visibility, no citations, and no composite score despite being a recognised brand in adjacent threat intelligence. |
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| 5 |
flashpoint.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Flashpoint matches Recorded Future with a composite score of 0.0, zero visibility, and zero citations, placing it equal last alongside six other brands in the top-10 list. |
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| 6 |
cybelangel.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
constella.ai
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
memcyco.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
bolster.ai
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
brandshield.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
darkowl.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
searchlightcyber.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
kela.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
intel471.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
riskiq.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
flare.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
netcraft.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
cloudsek.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
digitalshadows.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on digital risk protection platforms, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer.
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence — different from being named.
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps.
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically.
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Frequently asked about digital risk protection platforms AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in digital risk protection platforms?
ZeroFox leads with 37.5% visibility and a 50% citation rate, producing a composite score of 41.2. The next ranked brand, Group-IB, records 0.0% visibility.
What is the average AI visibility score for brands in this category?
The category average visibility is 2.0% and the average citation rate is 4.6% across 19 tracked brands, indicating a heavily concentrated landscape.
What sources does Google AI Mode cite most for digital risk protection research?
The top cited sources are g2.com, zerofox.com, gartner.com, youtube.com, group-ib.com, rapid7.com, cybernx.com, and fortra.com, mixing review platforms, analyst sites, and brand-owned domains.
Can a brand be cited by AI without appearing as a named solution in responses?
Yes. Group-IB has a 25% citation rate and Fortra PhishLabs has a 12.5% citation rate, but both record 0.0% visibility, showing citation without narrative presence is possible.
Which AI engine is driving visibility in this category?
Google AI Mode is the top engine for every brand in this dataset, with no other engine appearing in the audit results.
How many brands in the top 10 have a composite score above zero?
Only three brands score above zero: ZeroFox at 41.2, Group-IB at 7.5, and Fortra PhishLabs at 3.8. The remaining seven brands in the top 10 all score 0.0.