Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 65 → 63 of 87
2 categories · Named, not rankedCisco ASA
6Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
3 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, 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. Cisco ASA was named 4 times in Firewalls and 1 other category, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 73%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business71 of 99
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market81 of 83
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In firewalls · 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 Cisco ASA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next-generation firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 81 of 83 | 100% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 73% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Remote support and remote access | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 63 of 77 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Splashtop Remote Support at 23% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cisco ASA held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Firewalls · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 72 → 70 of 73
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firewalls | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 72 → 81 of 83 |
| Remote support | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 63 of 77, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Cisco ASA across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Cisco ASA across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“Avoid or treat as a poor new purchase - Cisco ASA 5500-X units—especially ASA 5508-X and 5516-X. ... as of October 1, 2026, they’re past support.” GPT-6 Luna · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative
“Recent vulnerabilities in legacy VPN systems such as Ivanti Pulse Secure and Cisco ASA have prompted urgent advisories” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Remote support · negative prompt · hard negative
“If you are buying new hardware, do not buy the ASA.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative
“Cisco ASA and Firepower devices had high-severity vulnerabilities that could allow memory leaks, information disclosure, authentication bypass, or denial of service” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco ASA, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco ASA was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco ASA, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco ASA was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Cisco ASA. 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 4 of the 6 answers that named Cisco ASA and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
en.wikipedia.org3
cisa.gov2
deepstrike.io2
logmein.com2
microsoft.com2
realvnc.com2
teamviewer.com2
techtarget.com2
xage.com2
beyondtrust.com1
Twenty of the twenty domain citations in answers naming Cisco ASA came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cisco.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cisco ASA takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet FortiGate takes 73%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cisco.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cisco ASA takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet FortiGate takes 73%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “next-generation firewall”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “next-generation firewalls”
1
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,114,808 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 153,465 · 35,558 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 199,308
- Paid Google search
- 8 searches its ads show for, about 107 clicks and $683 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 81 of 83 in firewalls
Segment leader
73%
Fortinet FortiGate
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 6 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 4 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cisco.com
551
subdomains included
Content
34
counted in the table below
Documentation
20
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 25 | 22 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-08 |
Most recent
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- 2026-07-15Cisco talent bridge candidate demo blog
- 2026-07-15Cisco talent bridge recruiter demo blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cisco.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. 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.
Names read as Cisco ASA
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cisco ASA; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cisco ASA 5500-X units—especially ASA 5508-X and 5516-X 1Cisco ASA Series 1Cisco ASA and Firepower 1
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- where Cisco ASA 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 Cisco ASA, 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;
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