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Cisco Secure Connect

11Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

5 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 Secure Connect was named 3 times in SASE, where Cato SASE Cloud led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business37 of 50

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 43

under the label threshold

Enterprise13 of 41

under the label threshold

In sase · 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 Secure Connect 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%	15 of 43	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cato SASE Cloud at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco Secure Connect 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 Connect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	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	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 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.

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

“Existing Cisco environment: Cisco Secure Connect” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Secure Connect, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Secure Connect was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE8 of 114Not in the top three

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange8 of 111Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiSASE8 of 110Not in the top three

Netskope One8 of 110Not in the top three

Cloudflare One7 of 111Not in the top three

Cato SASE Cloud5 of 113Not in the top three

Cato Networks4 of 110Not in the top three

Check Point Harmony SASE4 of 110Not in the top three

Versa SASE4 of 110Not in the top three

Akamai Enterprise Application Access1 of 110Not 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 Connect. 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 9 of the 11 answers that named Cisco Secure Connect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techrepublic.com9

crn.com6

cyberhaven.com5

gartner.com5

gcom.pdo.aws.gartner.com5

blog.openvpn.net4

channelfutures.com4

forrester.com4

fortinet.com4

guptadeepak.com4

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming Cisco Secure Connect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techrepublic.com/article/secure-access-service-edge-platforms9

crn.com/news/security/2024/palo-alto-networks-cato-netskope-top-gartner-s-sase-magic-quadr6

cyberhaven.com/blog/top-sase-solutions5

gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase5

gcom.pdo.aws.gartner.com/reviews/market/single-vendor-sase5

blog.openvpn.net/best-sase-solution4

fortinet.com/resources/analyst-reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-sase4

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-sase-platforms-20264

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cisco Secure Connect

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

Cisco Secure Access / Cisco Secure Connect 1

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