Cisco · 1 category · RankedCisco ISE
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network access control | Network and edge | 2% | 20 of 111 | 51% | 35 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cisco ISE across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cisco ISE is the enterprise standard for organizations that want policy depth, identity‑based segmentation, and tight Cisco ecosystem integration.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NAC · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best low-budget enterprise option: Cisco ISE Essentials if you already use Cisco gear or want a mainstream enterprise NAC.” GPT-5.4 mini · NAC · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose Cisco ISE if you're deeply invested in Cisco and need the most feature-rich enterprise solution” Kimi K2 · NAC · comparative prompt · first choice
“A natural first choice for Cisco-heavy environments.” GPT-6 Luna · NAC · comparative prompt · first choice
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 Cisco ISE unless you're already deeply committed to Cisco and have the operational maturity to manage its complexity.” Kimi K2 · NAC · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid - Cisco ISE and Aruba ClearPass – While excellent solutions, they are typically expensive and complex” Kimi K2 · NAC · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Cisco/Aruba/Forescout – these are enterprise-priced” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · budget prompt · hard negative
“Cisco ISE is not automatically one to avoid, but Cisco published an ISE/ISE-PIC security advisory on September 16, 2026 covering multiple vulnerabilities” GPT-6 Luna · NAC · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco ISE, over the 104 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco ISE was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 96 of the 104 answers that named Cisco ISE and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
391 of the 391 domain citations in answers naming Cisco ISE came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Cisco ISE stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“cisco ise”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 633 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Cisco's site (cisco.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 11 across its categories
- Named in
- 104 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 96 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.
Names read as Cisco ISE
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The company
Cisco is the company behind Cisco ISE.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Cisco
- Cisco ACE, Cisco ACI, Cisco ACI / Tetration, Cisco AI Defense, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco AppDynamics, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and 68 more
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cisco ISE by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cisco ISE 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 ISE, 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.