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Cisco Firepower

4Judge 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cisco Firepower was named 3 times in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market91 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise32 of 86

under the label threshold

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 Firepower 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
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	91 of 100	67%	3	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 Cisco Firepower 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 Cisco Firepower 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	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2
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

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-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

“Cisco shop already standardized on Cisco | Cisco Firepower / Meraki MX” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · 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.

“and Cisco Firepower (if you value your team's time and sanity)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative

“"Caution" in NSS Labs 2025 (57.34% effectiveness... Highest KEV vulnerabilities (143 entries)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Firepower, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Firepower was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet FortiGate3 of 42Not in the top three

Check Point3 of 41Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks2 of 40Not in the top three

SonicWall2 of 40Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks NGFW1 of 41Not in the top three

AWS/GCP/Azure1 of 40Not in the top three

Arista NG Firewall1 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN1 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Firewall1 of 40Not in the top three

Forcepoint1 of 40Not 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 Cisco Firepower. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Cisco Firepower and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com3

bishopfox.com2

cyberpress.org2

decryptiondigest.com2

gartner.com2

paloaltonetworks.com2

peerspot.com2

0doubt.ai1

advisories.checkpoint.com1

aibusinessinsider.org1

Eighteen of the eighteen domain citations in answers naming Cisco Firepower came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bishopfox.com/blog/its-2024-and-over-178-000-sonicwall-firewalls-are-publicly-exploitable2

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size2

gartner.com/reviews/market/network-firewalls2

gartner.com/reviews/market/network-firewalls/vendor/fortinet/product/fortigate-next-genera2

vulnerability-lookup.org/2024/12/31/vulnerability-report-20241

0doubt.ai/categories/ngfw1

advisories.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2025/cpai-2024-1351.html1

aibusinessinsider.org/best-firewall-appliances-for-it-directors-10-reviewed-and-ranked1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cisco Firepower

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

Cisco Firepower (e.g., 2130) 1Cisco Firepower / Meraki MX 1

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