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1 category · Named, not ranked

RidgeShield

9Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. RidgeShield was named 2 times in Microsegmentation, where ColorTokens Xshield led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business13 of 101

under the label threshold

Mid-market16 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In microsegmentation · 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 RidgeShield 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
Microsegmentation	Network and edge	2%	16 of 94	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25%

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
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	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct3 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

“RidgeShield or Enclave (free tier) | Strong cloud segmentation, reasonable pricing, easy to deploy.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · first choice

“Provides zero-trust microsegmentation for cloud environments (hybrid, on-prem, distributed)” MiniMax M2.5 · Microsegmentation · budget 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 RidgeShield, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RidgeShield was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Faddom7 of 95Not among the top eight

Illumio Segmentation5 of 91Not among the top eight

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation3 of 91Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Workload3 of 91Not among the top eight

ColorTokens Xshield3 of 91Not among the top eight

Elisity2 of 90Not among the top eight

Enclave2 of 90Not among the top eight

VMware NSX2 of 90Not among the top eight

Zero Networks Segment2 of 90Not among the top eight

AWS Security Groups1 of 90Not 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 RidgeShield. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named RidgeShield and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org9

topbusinesssoftware.com9

pushwoosh.com8

aimultiple.com7

slashdot.org7

g2.com6

forrester.com5

elisity.com4

gartner.com4

sourceforge.net4

No domain is on file for RidgeShield, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/microsegmentation-tools-by-business-size9

topbusinesssoftware.com/categories/microsegmentation/small-business-orgs9

pushwoosh.com/blog/best-user-segmentation-tools8

aimultiple.com/microsegmentation-tools7

slashdot.org/software/microsegmentation/f-small-business7

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-microsegmentation-solutions-q3-2024/RES1813025

g2.com/categories/microsegmentation/free5

elisity.com/blog/top-microsegmentation-solutions4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for RidgeShield by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where RidgeShield 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 RidgeShield, 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.