Every category where a model named Cisco Secure Email 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	Since September 2026
Email security	Security operations	0%	14 of 76	21%	14	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Cisco Secure Email held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Email security · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 54 → 42 of 56

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 19 → 14 of 71

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 25 → 7 of 58

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Email security	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 19 → 14 of 76

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Cisco Secure Email across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.20	0	2	0	2
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	2

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 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.

“most highly regarded platforms in 2025/2026 include ... Cisco Secure Email” Mistral Small · Email security · negative prompt · alternative

“Supports cloud, virtual, on-premises, and hybrid deployment” Perplexity Sonar · Email security · comparative 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.

“This is arguably the biggest red flag right now.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Email security · negative prompt · hard negative

“Only consider if you already have a deep integration with Cisco hardware; otherwise, newer architecture-native competitors often offer easier management.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

“Traditional SEGs (like older deployments of Proofpoint, Mimecast, or Cisco Secure Email)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Secure Email, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Secure Email was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proofpoint Email Protection31 of 3310Not among the top eight

Mimecast Email Security29 of 335Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender for Office 36526 of 332Not among the top eight

Abnormal AI24 of 339Not among the top eight

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration17 of 334Not among the top eight

Barracuda Email Protection14 of 330Not among the top eight

IRONSCALES10 of 330Not among the top eight

Google Workspace6 of 330Not among the top eight

Trend Micro Email Security6 of 330Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Email Security5 of 330Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Email. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 33 answers that named Cisco Secure Email and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

huntress.com17

gartner.com15

proofpoint.com15

checkpoint.com14

kaseya.com14

sublime.security14

adaptivesecurity.com12

expertinsights.com12

g2.com12

comparitech.com11

136 of the 136 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Secure Email came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

huntress.com/business-email-compromise-guide/10-best-email-security-providers15

kaseya.com/blog/best-email-security-solutions14

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security12

proofpoint.com/us/industry-comparison/email-security12

comparitech.com/net-admin/email-security9

ironscales.com/blog/the-best-email-security-companies-rankings-and-reviews8

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/best-email-security-tools-businesses7

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/best-email-security-tools/1278013267

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cisco Secure Email stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 320 a month (“cisco secure email”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 61 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

Share of first choices

rank 14 of 76 in email security

Segment leader

32%

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 33 answers
Its own site cited: in 28 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 Secure Email

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

Cisco 2Cisco Secure Email Gateway (SEG) / AsyncOS 1

Follow Cisco Secure Email

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Cisco is the company behind Cisco Secure Email.

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On record

Company records

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Cisco Secure Email's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Cisco Secure Email, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cisco Secure Email by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cisco Secure Email 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 Email, 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.