Cisco · 1 category · Named, not rankedCisco Secure Access – DNS Defense
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNS filtering | Network and edge | 2% | 8 of 94 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“my default recommendation would be Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense” GPT-5.4 mini · DNS filtering · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Cisco Secure Access — DNS Defense if you operate in a regulated industry” Kimi K2 · DNS filtering · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Already standardized on Cisco? Evaluate Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense” GPT-6 Luna · DNS filtering · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Best if you want a broader security platform and path to SSE/SWG/DLP” GPT-5.4 mini · DNS filtering · 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-four of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense
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The company
Cisco is the company behind Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense.ShowHide
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On record
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- where Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense 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 Secure Access – DNS Defense, 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.