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Azure Network Security Groups

10Judge labels

3First choices

0Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Azure Network Security Groups was named 2 times in Microsegmentation, where ColorTokens Xshield led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business10 of 101

under the label threshold

Mid-market14 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In microsegmentation · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Azure Network Security Groups for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Microsegmentation	Network and edge	2%	14 of 94	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Azure Network Security Groups yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Azure Network Security Groups across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels2

Scale-constrained1 label1

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If you are cloud-only: Stick to AWS/Azure/GCP native firewalls” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · first choice

“Azure NSGs filter traffic by source, destination, port, and protocol.” GPT-6 Luna · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Azure Network Security Groups, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure Network Security Groups was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AWS Security Groups10 of 100Not among the top eight

Illumio Segmentation7 of 100Not among the top eight

Faddom5 of 102Not among the top eight

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation5 of 100Not among the top eight

VMware NSX5 of 100Not among the top eight

ColorTokens Xshield4 of 102Not among the top eight

Cilium4 of 100Not among the top eight

Zero Networks Segment4 of 100Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Workload3 of 100Not among the top eight

Guardicore3 of 100Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Azure Network Security Groups. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 10 answers that named Azure Network Security Groups and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org7

aimultiple.com6

g2.com6

elisity.com5

sesamedisk.com5

sourceforge.net5

tigera.io5

forrester.com4

peerspot.com4

akamai.com3

No domain is on file for Azure Network Security Groups, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/microsegmentation-tools-by-business-size7

aimultiple.com/microsegmentation-tools5

sesamedisk.com/microsegmentation-best-practices-small-teams5

sourceforge.net/software/microsegmentation/for-small-business5

elisity.com/blog/top-microsegmentation-solutions4

peerspot.com/categories/microsegmentation-software4

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-microsegmentation-solutions-q3-2024/RES1813023

itechguides.com/best/microsegmentation-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Azure Network Security Groups

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Azure Network Security Groups; a claim can dispute any of them.

Azure NSGs 1

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The company

Azure is the company behind Azure Network Security Groups.

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On record

Company records

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Azure Network Security Groups's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Azure Network Security Groups, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Azure Network Security Groups by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Azure Network Security Groups is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Azure Network Security Groups, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.