Brand Leaders / 2027 / Security
2027 AI Cyber Risk Management Brand Leaders
Market and innovation leaders in 10 cyber risk management categories voted by the security pro community.
AI Cyber Risk Management Brand Leaderboard
Market Leader
Innovation LeaderSelect a category for its full vote breakdown and one-page report.
Survey highlights
Platforms hold the market, specialists push innovation
In seven of ten categories the same vendor won both pillars. In the other three, AI professionals gave innovation credit to a challenger: ProcessUnity in third-party risk, Diligent in GRC and CrowdStrike in exposure management. Voted by AI professionals, not algorithms.
Ratings and Supply Chain
Swept both pillars in Cybersecurity Risk Ratings and in Supply Chain Cyber Risk Monitoring and Response. Four titles, the most in the survey.
Third-Party Risk and GRC
Market Leader in both Third-Party Risk Management and GRC, on the strength of the workflow platform enterprises already run.
Third-Party Risk Innovation
Innovation Leader in TPRM, credited for automated assessments, continuous monitoring and AI-assisted review of vendor evidence.
Attack Surface Management
Won both pillars with Cortex Xpanse, the product that helped define external attack surface management.
Vulnerability and Exposure
Market Leader in Vulnerability Management and Exposure Management, plus Vulnerability Management Innovation Leader. Three titles in all.
Exposure Innovation
Innovation Leader in Exposure Management after placing fourth on market, for building exposure management into Falcon.
Threat Intelligence
Won both pillars in a near three-way race with Google and CrowdStrike, credited for AI-prioritized intelligence.
Risk Quantification
Won both pillars with the widest market margin in the survey, nearly 16 points, as boards ask for cyber risk in dollars.
GRC Innovation
Innovation Leader in GRC, credited for connecting board governance, risk, audit and compliance with AI.
Compliance Automation
Won both pillars with a 13-point market lead, and edged Drata on innovation by just over a point.
Get the Full 2027 Brand Leader Report
Product Category Definitions
| Category | Definition |
|---|---|
| Third-Party and Supply Chain Risk | |
| Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms | Platforms that continuously assess organizations and vendors using external security signals, translating findings into comparable ratings and prioritized risks. |
| Supply Chain Cyber Risk Monitoring and Response Platforms | Platforms that continuously monitor vendors and fourth parties for breaches and exposures across the supply chain, and coordinate detection, response, and remediation with suppliers. |
| Third-Party Risk Management Platforms (TPRM) | Platforms that manage vendor onboarding, due diligence, assessments, monitoring, and remediation across cyber, operational, financial, and compliance risks. |
| Exposure and Attack Surface | |
| External Attack Surface Management Platforms (EASM) | Platforms that discover and monitor internet-facing assets, exposed services, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities, including unknown or unmanaged systems. |
| Exposure Management Platforms | Platforms that consolidate security findings across assets, identities, cloud environments, and attack paths to prioritize and coordinate risk reduction. |
| Vulnerability Management Platforms | Platforms that discover, assess, prioritize, and track remediation of vulnerabilities across systems, applications, and infrastructure. |
| Threat Intelligence and Risk Quantification | |
| Cyber Threat Intelligence Platforms (CTI) | Platforms that provide intelligence about threat actors, attack campaigns, ransomware, exploited vulnerabilities, and compromised credentials to guide defense. |
| Cyber Risk Quantification Platforms (CRQ) | Platforms that estimate cyber incident likelihood and financial impact to support security investment, insurance, and risk acceptance decisions. |
| Governance and Compliance | |
| Governance, Risk, and Compliance Platforms (GRC) | Platforms that centralize risk registers, policies, controls, audit evidence, compliance obligations, and executive oversight, including cyber risk. |
| Security Compliance Automation and Trust Management Platforms | Platforms that automate control monitoring, evidence collection, audit preparation, security questionnaires, and sharing of security assurance documentation. |
AI Brand Leader Research
Since 2008, we’ve conducted the only IT brand leader research voted by IT Pros. Now, we’re the only IT analysts measuring customer perceptions of AI product brands.
Register to Vote
And you’ll receive a ballot for every future survey. Business email required.