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Cisco Vulnerability Management

5Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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 Vulnerability Management was named 3 times in ASM and 1 other category, where Intruder led with 59%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market10 of 104

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In asm · 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 Vulnerability Management 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
Attack surface management	Security operations	2%	10 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	63 of 80	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	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 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“The Best All-Rounder (Risk-Based): Kenna Security ... gold standard for mid-market organizations” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ASM · direct prompt · first choice

“need the deepest possible “exploit‑prediction” analytics, you might look at Cisco Kenna” MiniMax M2.5 · Vuln management · direct 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.

“If you're evaluating this, avoid it — you'd be adopting a dead product.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Vuln management · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Vulnerability Management, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Vulnerability Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Qualys VMDR2 of 51Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightVM2 of 51Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management2 of 50Not in the top three

Orca Security2 of 50Not in the top three

Qualys2 of 50Not in the top three

Wiz2 of 50Not in the top three

Tenable One / Tenable Vulnerability Management1 of 51Not in the top three

BeyondTrust Retina1 of 50Not in the top three

Brinqa1 of 50Not in the top three

Censys ASM1 of 50Not 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 Vulnerability Management. 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 3 of the 5 answers that named Cisco Vulnerability Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

binarly.io2

g2.com2

learn.microsoft.com2

orca.security2

armorcode.com1

axis-intelligence.com1

betanews.com1

blog.qualys.com1

ciopages.com1

cisco.comYour site1

Thirteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Cisco Vulnerability Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

binarly.io/articles/vulnerability-management-tools2

g2.com/products/tenable-vulnerability-management/reviews2

orca.security/resources/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools2

armorcode.com/blog/kenna-end-of-life-how-to-preserve-independent-vulnerability-management1

armorcode.com/kenna-security-vulnerability-management-eol1

axis-intelligence.com/best-vulnerability-management-tools-tested1

betanews.com/2022/10/26/popular-vulnerability-scanners-are-only-73-percent-accurate1

blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2025/12/16/navigating-change-evolving-your-exposure-managemen1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cisco Vulnerability Management

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

Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna Security) 1Kenna Security 1Kenna Security (now Cisco Kenna) 1

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