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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Forcepoint

12Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

3Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Forcepoint was named 5 times in Firewalls and 2 other categories, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 61%. 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-market71 of 100

under the label threshold

Enterprise47 of 86

under the label threshold

In firewalls · 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 Forcepoint 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%	71 of 100	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 61%
SASE platforms	Network and edge	0%	28 of 43	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cato SASE Cloud at 28%
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	52 of 71	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%

Movement

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

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative9 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“historically mixed reviews on Gartner; their NGFW has a smaller installed base” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Forcepoint, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Forcepoint was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Check Point5 of 120Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Firewall5 of 120Not in the top three

Fortinet4 of 121Not in the top three

Fortinet FortiGate4 of 121Not in the top three

Cato Networks4 of 120Not in the top three

Cisco4 of 120Not in the top three

Cloudflare One4 of 120Not in the top three

Huawei4 of 120Not in the top three

Juniper Networks4 of 120Not in the top three

Sophos XGS4 of 120Not 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 Forcepoint. 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 12 of the 12 answers that named Forcepoint and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com8

esecurityplanet.com7

decryptiondigest.com6

checkpoint.com5

cybersecuritynews.com5

fortinet.com5

gartner.com5

wifihotshots.com5

networkworld.com4

paloaltonetworks.com4

Fifty-four of the fifty-four domain citations in answers naming Forcepoint came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls7

esecurityplanet.com/products/top-ngfw7

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared5

cybersecuritynews.com/best-next-generation-firewall4

softwarereviews.com/awards/data-quadrant-awards-2024-next-generation-firewall4

wwt.com/article/comparing-next-generation-firewalls4

crn.com/news/security/2024/palo-alto-networks-cato-netskope-top-gartner-s-sase-magic-quadr3

decryptiondigest.com/blog/enterprise-ngfw-comparison-20263

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 Forcepoint'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 Forcepoint, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at forcepoint.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.