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Index › Vendors › Barracuda SecureEdge · September 2026 Edition

Barracuda · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Barracuda SecureEdge

7Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Barracuda SecureEdge was named 4 times in SASE, where Cato SASE Cloud led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business19 of 50

under the label threshold

Mid-market33 of 43

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In sase · 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 Barracuda SecureEdge 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
SASE platforms	Network and edge	0%	33 of 43	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cato SASE Cloud at 28%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Barracuda SecureEdge across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“A SASE platform that cuts complexity and provides anytime/anywhere security and access to data and applications.” Llama 4 Maverick · SASE · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“A SASE platform designed for SMBs, offering a single cloud-delivered service model” Llama 4 Maverick · SASE · paraphrase 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.

“"platforms to avoid" includes legacy firewall vendors (historically Juniper, McAfee/Touchstone, Barracuda)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SASE · negative prompt · hard negative

“may be simpler fits, but the search results position them more toward SMBs or lighter mid-market needs” Perplexity Sonar · SASE · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Barracuda SecureEdge, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda SecureEdge was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Check Point Harmony SASE4 of 52Not in the top three

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange3 of 51Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiSASE3 of 50Not in the top three

Cloudflare One1 of 51Not in the top three

Cisco1 of 50Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Access1 of 50Not in the top three

Juniper1 of 50Not in the top three

Lumen Managed SASE1 of 50Not in the top three

McAfee/Touchstone1 of 50Not in the top three

OpenVPN CloudConnexa1 of 50Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Barracuda SecureEdge. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 5 of the 5 answers that named Barracuda SecureEdge and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

securedge.net3

zscaler.com3

barracuda.comYour site2

blog.openvpn.net2

cyberpress.org2

fortinet.com2

g2.com2

verizon.com2

amplifierone.com1

business.comcast.com1

Eighteen of the twenty domain citations in answers naming Barracuda SecureEdge came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

securedge.net/3

zscaler.com/products-and-solutions/security-service-edge-sse3

barracuda.com/products/network-protection/secureedge2

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution2

cyberpress.org/sdp-solutions-by-business-size2

fortinet.com/solutions/unified-sase2

verizon.com/business/en-en/resources/lp/secure-access-service-edge2

amplifierone.com/sase-ztna-platform-comparison-zscaler-cato-palo-alto-fortinet-netskope1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Barracuda SecureEdge

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

SecurEdge 2Barracuda 1

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