Every category where a model named Cisco Secure Access 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	0%	12 of 43	18%	11	accepted challenger
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	16 of 71	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco Secure Access 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 Secure Access 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	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	2	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	3	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase10 labels2

Comparative22 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative52 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.

“Leader (balanced) | Highest overall score in independent rankings; strong SD-WAN + SSE convergence, MSP-ready” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · comparative prompt · first choice

“If your organization is heavily invested in Cisco infrastructure, Cisco Secure Access is the logical choice” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Deep integration with Cisco's networking and security portfolio; strong for hybrid environments” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative

“also evaluate Zscaler or Cisco to compare feature depth and ecosystem fit” Kimi K2 · SASE · 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.

“Avoid single-vendor solutions that are essentially two separate platforms (like Cisco Secure Access and Catalyst SD-WAN)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SASE · negative prompt · hard negative

“these lean toward large-enterprise and many have immature SD-WAN, making them less ideal for mid-market consolidation” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SASE · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Secure Access, over the 52 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Secure Access was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare One30 of 528Not in the top three

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange30 of 525Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiSASE27 of 521Not in the top three

Cato Networks22 of 528Not in the top three

Netskope One22 of 523Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE20 of 523Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access20 of 521Not in the top three

Zscaler Private Access15 of 5210Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE12 of 520Not in the top three

Twingate11 of 524Not 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 Secure Access. 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 46 of the 52 answers that named Cisco Secure Access and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com19

blog.openvpn.net16

sase.cloud15

guptadeepak.com14

aimultiple.com13

fortinet.com13

cybervendorguide.com12

g2.com11

techrepublic.com11

cisco.comYour site10

124 of the 134 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Secure Access came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions13

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution11

techrepublic.com/article/secure-access-service-edge-platforms11

cybervendorguide.com/guides/sase-zero-trust10

gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase10

macronetservices.com/sase-leaders-vendors-comparison10

pickmysoft.com/blog/best-secure-access-service-edge-sase-platforms10

sase.cloud/guides/sase-vendor-comparison10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cisco Secure Access

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

Cisco SASE 1Cisco Secure Access / Cisco SASE portfolio 1Cisco Secure Access / Cisco Secure Connect 1Cisco Secure Access / Duo 1Cisco Secure Access and Catalyst SD-WAN 1

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