Every category where a model named Cisco Secure Firewall 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
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	15 of 100	11%	18	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	1	0	3
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	0	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	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

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative19 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 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.

“Cisco ecosystem users | Scalable, strong integration ... Complex setup, higher mid-range pricing” Grok 4.1 Fast · Firewalls · direct prompt · alternative

“Often chosen by organisations that value tight integration with existing Cisco infrastructure” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Firewalls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Ideal if you're already invested in Cisco's ecosystem (SD‑WAN, NAC, Duo, etc.)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Firewalls · direct prompt · alternative

“Strong policy consistency, hybrid integration. Good for existing Cisco shops.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Firewalls · scale 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.

“Be cautious with Cisco or legacy SonicWall/Sophos; ensure your team is trained to handle their complex configurations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

“Verdict: Caution (Performance and Usability)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Secure Firewall, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Secure Firewall was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet FortiGate36 of 4619Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks25 of 4618Not in the top three

Check Point16 of 461Not in the top three

Check Point Quantum13 of 460Not in the top three

Sophos Firewall12 of 461Not in the top three

Sophos XGS11 of 461Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series9 of 467Not in the top three

Fortinet9 of 463Not in the top three

WatchGuard Firebox9 of 462Not in the top three

Barracuda CloudGen7 of 460Not 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 Firewall. 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 41 of the 46 answers that named Cisco Secure Firewall and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com31

fortinet.com21

checkpoint.com20

cyberpress.org19

cybersecuritynews.com19

decryptiondigest.com18

esecurityplanet.com18

softwarereviews.com17

paloaltonetworks.com16

techtarget.com13

192 of the 192 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Secure Firewall came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls28

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall19

cyberpress.org/best-next-generation-firewall-ngfw-solutions-for-every-business-size18

esecurityplanet.com/products/top-ngfw18

decryptiondigest.com/blog/enterprise-ngfw-comparison-202617

softwarereviews.com/awards/data-quadrant-awards-2024-next-generation-firewall17

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared14

fortinet.com/products/next-generation-firewall10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cisco Secure Firewall

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

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly FTD) 1Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower) 1

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