Top 20 privileged access management software by AI search visibility (2026)
Privileged access management platforms used to secure admin credentials, broker privileged sessions, rotate secrets, and control elevated access across infrastructure and applications. Ranked by a composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
Refreshed Jun 06, 2026At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
CyberArk dominates AI visibility in the PAM category with a 50% visibility score — more than six times the 8.1% category average — giving it a commanding lead over the field. BeyondTrust and Delinea are tied at 37.5% visibility, making them credible challengers, but CyberArk's composite score of 38.8 versus their shared 30.0 reflects a meaningful gap. All three brands entered this audit period from zero previous visibility, suggesting a structural shift in how Google AI Mode is now surfacing PAM vendors.
A striking visibility-citation divergence defines this category. One Identity holds just 12.5% visibility yet carries a 75% citation rate — the highest of any brand — indicating that while the AI rarely names it unprompted, it is frequently used as a trusted source when cited. Securden presents a similar pattern: 0% visibility but 62.5% citation rate. In contrast, CyberArk is named often but cited only 12.5% of the time, suggesting it functions as a reference brand rather than an authoritative source in AI-generated responses.
Google AI Mode is the dominant engine across every brand in this dataset, with no brand registering a different top engine. The top cited external sources in this category are anchored by gartner.com first, followed by youtube.com and a mix of vendor and niche analyst domains including apono.io, netwrix.com, and cloudnuro.ai. Notably, securden.com and oneidentity.com appear directly in the cited sources list, which aligns with their anomalously high citation percentages and suggests the AI is actively pulling from their owned web content.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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CyberArk 0% → 50% · rank #0 → #1+50pp
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BeyondTrust 0% → 38% · rank #0 → #3+38pp
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Delinea 0% → 38% · rank #0 → #4+38pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
cyberark.com
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50% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
CyberArk leads the category with 50% visibility — 6x the 8.1% average — but its 12.5% citation rate matches the category mean, limiting its authority signal. |
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| 2 |
oneidentity.com
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12% | 75% | Google AI Mode |
One Identity has the highest citation rate in the dataset at 75% despite only 12.5% visibility, making it the most cited-but-undernamed brand in the category. |
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| 3 |
beyondtrust.com
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38% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
BeyondTrust ties Delinea at 37.5% visibility and 12.5% citation, sitting 4.6x above the category visibility average but generating no differentiated citation authority. |
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| 4 |
delinea.com
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38% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Delinea shares an identical composite score of 30.0 with BeyondTrust, with matching visibility and citation rates, offering no measurable AI differentiation between the two brands. |
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| 5 |
securden.com
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0% | 62% | Google AI Mode |
Securden achieves 0% visibility yet a 62.5% citation rate — five times the category average — and appears directly in the top cited sources list, reflecting strong content authority. |
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| 6 |
strongdm.com
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0% | 38% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
goteleport.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
arconnet.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
manageengine.com
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0% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
wallix.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
okta.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
keepersecurity.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
hashicorp.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
jumpcloud.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
saviynt.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
microsoft.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
senhasegura.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
imprivata.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
akeyless.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
ibm.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 privileged access management software, 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 privileged access management software AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in privileged access management software?
CyberArk leads with 50% visibility and a composite score of 38.8, more than six times the category average of 8.1% and well ahead of second-ranked One Identity at 12.5%.
Which PAM brand is most cited by Google AI Mode even though it rarely names them?
One Identity has a 75% citation rate despite only 12.5% visibility, and Securden follows with 62.5% citations at 0% visibility — both are trusted sources the AI draws from without prominently naming them.
What external sources does Google AI Mode anchor on when answering PAM queries?
Gartner.com is the top cited source, followed by youtube.com, apono.io, netwrix.com, and cloudnuro.ai, alongside vendor-owned domains securden.com and oneidentity.com.
Is there a meaningful difference between being named and being cited in this category?
Yes — CyberArk is named in 50% of responses but cited only 12.5% of the time, while Securden is never named yet cited in 62.5% of responses, showing visibility and citation authority are largely decoupled here.
Which PAM brands are new entrants to AI visibility this audit period?
CyberArk, BeyondTrust, and Delinea all moved from 0% to their current visibility scores this period, with CyberArk gaining the largest delta at 50 percentage points.
How concentrated is AI visibility across the 20 brands in this PAM category?
Visibility is heavily concentrated — the top three brands hold 50%, 37.5%, and 37.5% visibility respectively, while the category average is just 8.1% and several brands register 0% visibility.