Penetration testing as a service · RankedNCC Group
NCC Group is a cyber security and managed services provider whose offerings include penetration testing as a service · nccgroup.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Stingrai is first at 22%.
Cobalt is first at 46%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
NetSPI is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“shortlist NetSPI or NCC Group for broad enterprise coverage”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · first choice
“For deep compliance-driven assessments, traditional consultancies like NCC Group or Bishop Fox provide the most thorough manual testing.”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Hands-on, in-depth testing across networks, apps, and cloud; broad attack surface coverage”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“If your product is code-centric ... this is a strong choice.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“avoid traditional enterprise security firms (like Mandiant or NCC Group, which often charge $20,000–$50,000+ per test)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as NCC Group, over the 36 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 4 | View → | |
| 29 | 5 | View → | |
| 27 | 6 | View → | |
| 24 | 3 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on NCC Group's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- the world's leading companies and governments
- Customers named
- TikTok, Vodafone, Microlise, MPCH, Barclaycard, Transport for London, Tulane University, Siemens
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 32 of the 36 answers that named NCC Group and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
115 of the 115 domain citations in answers naming NCC Group came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 1,358 | undated | MFA, IaC | ||
| News or press | 637 | undated | MDR, TPRM | ||
| Blog | 322 | undated | MDR, ASM | ||
| Case study | 61 | undated | MDR | ||
| Conference or event | 43 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 22 | undated | TPRM | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 5 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 2 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Events in person
- October 6, 2026ONE Conference 2026The Hague · exhibits
- October 7, 2026ONE Conference 2026The Hague · exhibits
As the event pages on nccgroup.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page nccgroup.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name MDR (16); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.