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Fortinet · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Fortinet Universal ZTNA

9Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Fortinet Universal ZTNA was named 4 times in ZTNA, where Cloudflare One led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business53 of 65

under the label threshold

Mid-market18 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprise21 of 64

under the label threshold

In ztna · 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 Fortinet Universal ZTNA 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
Zero trust network access	Network and edge	0%	18 of 71	0%	4	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 Fortinet Universal ZTNA 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 Fortinet Universal ZTNA across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“Prioritize: Fortinet (Gartner Customers' Choice 4.9/5, 235+ reviews)” Grok 4.1 Fast · ZTNA · negative prompt · first choice

“Gartner SSE Challenger, highest Peer Insights score (4.9/5); cost-effective.” Grok 4.1 Fast · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best For: Distributed enterprises that already rely on FortiGate firewalls” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best if you're already standardized on Fortinet: Fortinet ZTNA” GPT-5.4 mini · ZTNA · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fortinet Universal ZTNA, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortinet Universal ZTNA was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zscaler Private Access8 of 95Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access7 of 91Not in the top three

Cloudflare One4 of 92Not in the top three

Cisco Secure Access4 of 90Not in the top three

Cloudflare Access4 of 90Not in the top three

Netskope Private Access4 of 90Not in the top three

Tailscale3 of 91Not in the top three

Twingate2 of 91Not in the top three

Akamai Enterprise Application Access2 of 90Not in the top three

Appgate SDP2 of 90Not 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 Fortinet Universal ZTNA. 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 7 of the 9 answers that named Fortinet Universal ZTNA and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

portnox.com6

cybersecuritynews.com5

gartner.com5

aimultiple.com4

expertinsights.com4

cyberpress.org3

fortinet.comYour site3

peerspot.com3

petronellatech.com3

uinat.com3

Thirty-six of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Fortinet Universal ZTNA came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ztna-solutions5

portnox.com/cybersecurity-101/zero-trust/who-are-the-best-ztna-providers5

aimultiple.com/ztna-solutions4

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-zero-trust-network-access-solutions4

gartner.com/reviews/market/zero-trust-network-access4

gartner.com/doc/reprints3

petronellatech.com/blog/zero-trust-vendors-compared-top-10-smbs-20263

uinat.com/rankings/top-ztna-solutions-20263

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Fortinet Universal ZTNA

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

Fortinet ZTNA 2Fortinet ZTNA (via FortiClient/SASE) 1

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