Gen Digital
gendigital.com · Technology · GEN, NLOK, SYMC
Ranked 1,719 of 2,047 companies in the study
- Visibility0
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness21
AI assistants do not name Gen Digital in any of their 60 answers, while they often mention companies like Bitdefender, McAfee, and Trend Micro. Its overall score is 26 out of 100, ranking 1,719th of 2,047 companies, which is below the typical company in the technology sector. The company's website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Gen Digital. AI assistants named it in none of 60 answers. The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Gen Digital ranks 236 of 273 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
The company is not named in this answer
“Identity theft protection vs. credit monitoring services—what’s the difference?”
While both identity theft protection and credit monitoring services aim to safeguard your financial well-being, they differ in their scope and the types of threats they address. Credit monitoring focuses specifically on your credit reports, whereas identity theft protection offers a broader shield against various cyber threats and provides assistance if your identity is stolen.
Here's a breakdown of the differences:
Credit Monitoring Services
Focus: Credit monitoring primarily tracks activity on your credit reports from the three major credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and Tran …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.gendigital.com · 2,047 companies scanned
3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.
- GPTBotallowed
- ClaudeBotallowed
- Anthropic-AIallowed
- Google-Extendedallowed
- Applebot-Extendedallowed
- Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
- FacebookBotallowed
- Bytespiderallowed
- CCBotallowed
- Diffbotallowed
- Omgilibotallowed
- OAI-SearchBotallowed
- Claude-SearchBotallowed
- PerplexityBotallowed
- Applebotallowed
- Amazonbotallowed
- YouBotallowed
- ChatGPT-Userallowed
- Claude-Userallowed
- Perplexity-Userallowed
- DuckAssistBotallowed
- MistralAI-Userallowed
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- Identity theft protection vs. credit monitoring services—what’s the difference?
- How can I fix issues with a personal device that keeps flagging phishing attempts?
- Top-rated cybersecurity solutions for protecting personal devices at home
- How can identity protection services help after a data breach notification?
- Are digital financial wellness platforms worth subscribing to for budgeting and monitoring?
- What should I do if my financial wellness dashboard shows incorrect credit alerts?
- Are there free financial management apps that also include digital privacy features?
- What is the average monthly cost for consumer-focused digital security suites in the US?
- Best online tools for managing both digital safety and personal finances
- How do digital privacy tools compare to traditional antivirus software?
- Which types of cybersecurity software are best for remote workers managing sensitive information?
- What are some effective alternatives to traditional identity theft protection services?
- Alternatives to bundled cybersecurity and financial wellness app subscriptions
- What are the best identity protection services for families in the US?
- Is it necessary to combine online privacy tools with device security apps?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.