Every category where a model named Fortinet FortiNAC 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
Network access control	Network and edge	0%	21 of 111	15%	27	accepted challenger
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	47 of 66	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Twingate at 39%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fortinet FortiNAC 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 Fortinet FortiNAC 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	2	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.20	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	3	2	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	0	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	1
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

Direct13 labels1

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative30 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“excellent alternatives if you require deep integration with existing Cisco or Fortinet infrastructure, but they may involve more complexity and cost” Mistral Small · NAC · direct prompt · alternative

“FortiNAC is a solid choice for companies looking for a NAC solution that integrates well with Fortinet's security fabric” Mistral Small · NAC · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Choose FortiNAC if you need strong visibility and control over IoT/OT/medical devices, plus automated containment.” GPT-5.4 mini · NAC · comparative prompt · alternative

“FortiNAC is a compelling choice for Fortinet‑centric environments seeking a zero‑trust, fabric‑integrated NAC” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NAC · 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.

“Avoid Fortinet FortiNAC (poor usability, difficult to stand up).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NAC · negative prompt · hard negative

“steep learning curve and being incredibly difficult to deploy and configure from scratch” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NAC · negative prompt · soft negative

“Complexity in wired/wireless segmentation; limited in hybrid/cloud per 2024 critiques.” Grok 4.20 · NAC · negative prompt · soft negative

“Fortinet's advisory record ... makes prompt patching non-negotiable” Claude Haiku 4.5 · NAC · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fortinet FortiNAC, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet FortiNAC was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Portnox Cloud49 of 7114Not among the top eight

Forescout34 of 710Not among the top eight

Cisco Identity Services Engine33 of 7124Not among the top eight

Cisco ISE29 of 718Not among the top eight

Aruba ClearPass24 of 712Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba ClearPass17 of 713Not among the top eight

Juniper Mist Access Assurance10 of 710Not among the top eight

Ivanti Policy Secure8 of 710Not among the top eight

OPSWAT MetaAccess7 of 712Not among the top eight

PacketFence7 of 710Not 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 Fortinet FortiNAC. 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 61 of the 71 answers that named Fortinet FortiNAC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

portnox.com47

cybersecuritynews.com33

cyberpress.org32

us.fitgap.com30

gartner.com29

elisity.com28

fortinet.comYour site26

peerspot.com26

comparitech.com25

cloudnuro.ai23

273 of the 299 domain citations in answers naming Fortinet FortiNAC came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size32

cybersecuritynews.com/best-nac-solutions32

portnox.com/cybersecurity-101/access-control/top-nac-solutions27

gartner.com/reviews/market/network-access-control26

us.fitgap.com/search/network-access-control-software26

comparitech.com/net-admin/network-access-control-software25

fortinet.com/products/network-access-control24

cloudnuro.ai/blog/top-10-network-access-control-nac-solutions-for-zero-trust-implementatio23

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Fortinet FortiNAC 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: 30 a month (“fortinet fortinac”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Its own site: It sits on Fortinet's site (fortinet.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 21 of 111 in NAC

Segment leader

35%

Portnox Cloud

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 71 answers
Its own site cited: in 61 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 Fortinet FortiNAC

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

Fortinet FortiNAC & FortiGate 1Fortinet FortiNAC 9.5 1

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The company

Fortinet is the company behind Fortinet FortiNAC.

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On record

Company records

Also from Fortinet: Fortinet FortiADC, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Fortinet FortiClient, Fortinet FortiClient / FortiNAC, Fortinet FortiDeceiver, Fortinet FortiDeceptor, Fortinet FortiEDR, Fortinet FortiGate and 17 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: FortiNAC is a zero-trust access solution that oversees and protects all digital assets connected to the enterprise network, covering devices ranging from IT, IoT, OT/ICS, to IoMT.
fortinet.com/products/network-access-control
For: enterprise
fortinet.com/products/network-access-control
Free plan or trial: Request Free Demo fortinet.com/products/network-access-control
Customers named: Grupo ParviGrupo OrenesDuPage County Sheriff's OfficeCapal
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Fortinet FortiNAC's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: fortinet.com/products/network-access-control, videocms.corp.fortinet.com/watch/fortinac-automated-response, videocms.corp.fortinet.com/playlists/zero-trust-network-access-7-0, videocms.corp.fortinet.com/playlists/zero-trust-network-access-6-0, videocms.corp.fortinet.com/watch/zero-trust-access-fortiswitch-nac. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Fortinet FortiNAC'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 Fortinet FortiNAC, 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 Fortinet FortiNAC by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Fortinet FortiNAC 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 Fortinet FortiNAC, 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.