Every category where a model named Check Point Harmony SASE 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	5%	5 of 43	13%	15	accepted challenger
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	2%	7 of 71	27%	30	criticized challenger
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	39 of 100	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Check Point Harmony SASE 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 Check Point Harmony SASE across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	2	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	1	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	2	1	6
Mistral Small	0	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	2	3	6
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Kimi K2	0	2	1	2	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	1	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	1	1	5

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

Direct24 labels2

Paraphrase20 labels4

Comparative39 labelsNone

Budget-constrained14 labelsNone

Scale-constrained13 labelsNone

Negative27 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative137 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 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.

“Perimeter 81 - Best for small to mid-sized businesses seeking an easy-to-deploy, affordable ZTNA solution with VPN capabilities.” Llama 4 Maverick · ZTNA · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“1. Check Point Harmony SASE: A cloud-native zero-trust access solution that grows into full SASE without changing vendors.” Llama 4 Maverick · SASE · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I would recommend Check Point Harmony SASE as the default choice” Perplexity Sonar · SASE · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“popular with SMB and mid-market companies that want a more unified edge security stack without stitching together multiple vendors” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SASE · direct 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.

“(Perimeter 81/Harmony SASE) | Hard-coded encryption keys in diagnostic logs | Customer data exposure” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · negative prompt · hard negative

“Research exposed critical vulnerabilities across Check Point, Zscaler and Netskope that fell into three primary categories: authentication bypasses, credential storage failures and cross-tenant exploitation.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ZTNA · negative prompt · soft negative

“Check Point (Perimeter 81): Contained hard-coded SFTP credentials in diagnostic logs, exposing JWT tokens that could be reused to impersonate users.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · negative prompt · soft negative

“Incumbent Firewall/VPN Vendors (Fortinet, Cisco, Checkpoint) — may offer ZTNA modules, but verify they offer true app-level segmentation” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Check Point Harmony SASE, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Check Point Harmony SASE was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare One79 of 13239Not in the top three

Twingate60 of 13225Not in the top three

Cato Networks39 of 1329Not in the top three

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange37 of 1322Not in the top three

Tailscale36 of 1326Not in the top three

Zscaler Private Access33 of 13211Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiSASE33 of 1320Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access28 of 1323Not in the top three

NordLayer25 of 1322Not in the top three

Netskope One23 of 1321Not 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 Check Point Harmony SASE. 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 113 of the 132 answers that named Check Point Harmony SASE and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cybersecuritynews.com58

cyberpress.org49

gartner.com44

petronellatech.com39

g2.com32

blog.openvpn.net31

aimultiple.com29

expertinsights.com27

portnox.com27

reddit.com26

362 of the 362 domain citations in answers naming Check Point Harmony SASE came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions47

petronellatech.com/blog/zero-trust-vendors-compared-top-10-smbs-202639

cyberpress.org/ztna-solutions-by-business-size34

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions29

gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase27

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-zero-trust-network-access-solutions26

startwithidentity.com/articles/top-8-zero-trust-network-access-tools22

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Check Point Harmony SASE

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

Check Point 8Perimeter 81 6Check Point Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) 5Check Point Harmony SASE (ex-Perimeter 81) 3Check Point Harmony 2Check Point (Harmony SASE/Perimeter 81) 1Check Point (R8x / Harmony Endpoint) 1Check Point Harmony Connect 1Check Point Harmony SASE / Perimeter 81 1Check Point Perimeter 81 1Checkpoint 1Perimeter 81 / Check Point 1

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