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Netskope

40Judge labels
0First choices
16Negative labels
9 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.
Best standing
0% in ZTNA for mid-market buyers
Rank 71 of 71 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 47% of its 15 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Netskope 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Zero trust network accessNetwork and edge0%71 of 7147%15criticized challenger
Email securitySecurity operations0%19 of 710%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%
SD-WANNetwork and edge0%19 of 530%1under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 41%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Netskope 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 Netskope across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500112
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00112
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00112
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash11114
Kimi K200112
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500011

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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained11 labelsNone
Negative14 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative40 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“such as Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Proofpoint, Mimecast, or Netskope.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Email security · negative prompt · first choice
“Netskope Borderless... all have mature ecosystems and integrated security.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · alternative
“For advanced data security, consider Netskope.” Mistral Small · ZTNA · 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.

“Cross-tenant vulnerabilities with leaked enrollment tokens | Attackers could compromise ANY organization” Kimi K2 · ZTNA · negative prompt · hard negative
“Netskope (CVE-2024-7401): Suffered from an authentication bypass during Identity Provider (IdP) enrollment and cross-tenant vulnerabilities” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ZTNA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Netskope | Auth bypass in IdP enrollment (CVE-2024-7401), cross-tenant impersonation via leaked OrgKeys, privilege escalation.” Grok 4.1 Fast · ZTNA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Multiple client-side vulnerabilities disclosed in the same DEF CON research... they directly undermine the trust model.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ZTNA · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Netskope, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Netskope was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zscaler27 of 403Not in the top three
Cloudflare One15 of 407Not in the top three
Check Point Harmony SASE15 of 400Not in the top three
Fortinet12 of 400Not in the top three
Twingate11 of 403Not in the top three
Tailscale11 of 401Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks7 of 404Not in the top three
Zscaler Private Access7 of 402Not in the top three
Cisco7 of 400Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access7 of 400Not 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 Netskope. 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 28 of the 40 answers that named Netskope and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

portnox.com16
cybersecuritynews.com12
expertinsights.com12
gartner.com12
cyberpress.org11
zendikt.com10
akamai.com9
zerotrust.cio.com9
aimultiple.com8
petronellatech.com8

107 of the 107 domain citations in answers naming Netskope came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Netskope

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Netskope; a claim can dispute any of them.
Netskope (Private Access) 1Netskope Borderless 1
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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 Netskope'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 Netskope, 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 netskope.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.

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