Every category where a model named Cisco Secure Workload 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
Microsegmentation	Network and edge	0%	24 of 94	25%	28	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco Secure Workload yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cisco Secure Workload 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	1	1	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	3
Mistral Small	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	2	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	3	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	3	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	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

Direct20 labels2

Paraphrase16 labelsNone

Comparative26 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels2

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative95 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 5 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 Secure Workload lets you consolidate segmentation with vulnerability management and network access control in one console.” MiniMax M2.5 · Microsegmentation · comparative prompt · alternative

“Often selected for organizations that want segmentation tied to a larger enterprise security/network stack” Perplexity Sonar · Microsegmentation · comparative prompt · alternative

“Cisco Secure Workload enables application-aware microsegmentation with behavior-based policy recommendations” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Microsegmentation · direct prompt · alternative

“Cisco Secure Workload as suitable for enterprises wanting segmentation inside an existing networking stack” Muse Glimmer 30B · Microsegmentation · negative 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.

“Frequently called out as problematic... "the worst product"... Avoid if you lack deep expertise or time for constant tweaks.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · hard negative

“agents that can't run on OT/IoT devices or legacy systems, and deployment complexity is a frequent concern” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cons: Complex, expensive, may be overkill for basic segmentation needs” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Complexity overload... this tool can easily become "shelfware."” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Secure Workload, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Secure Workload was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Illumio Segmentation77 of 9442Not among the top eight

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation72 of 9414Not among the top eight

VMware NSX48 of 940Not among the top eight

Zero Networks Segment44 of 9410Not among the top eight

Elisity36 of 942Not among the top eight

ColorTokens Xshield35 of 9411Not among the top eight

Zscaler Private Access16 of 944Not among the top eight

Illumio Core10 of 945Not among the top eight

Nutanix Flow Network Security9 of 940Not among the top eight

Palo Alto Networks8 of 940Not 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 Workload. 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 90 of the 94 answers that named Cisco Secure Workload and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

elisity.com65

peerspot.com45

tigera.io41

cybersecuritynews.com37

forrester.com37

gartner.com35

illumio.com33

zeronetworks.com33

cyberpress.org32

aimultiple.com31

389 of the 389 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Secure Workload came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

elisity.com/blog/top-microsegmentation-solutions58

peerspot.com/categories/microsegmentation-software42

cybersecuritynews.com/best-microsegmentation-tools37

cyberpress.org/microsegmentation-tools-by-business-size32

elisity.com/microsegmentation/best-zero-trust-microsegmentation-solutions29

tigera.io/learn/guides/microsegmentation/microsegmentation-software28

gartner.com/reviews/market/microsegmentation27

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-microsegmentation-solutions-q3-2024/RES18130226

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cisco Secure Workload 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: 390 a month (“cisco secure workload”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 11 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 24 of 94 in microsegmentation

Segment leader

25%

ColorTokens Xshield

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 94 answers
Its own site cited: in 90 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 Workload

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

Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) 3

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The company

Cisco is the company behind Cisco Secure Workload.

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On record

Company records

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

where Cisco Secure Workload 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 Workload, 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.