Every category where a model named Zero Networks Segment 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%	8 of 94	6%	31	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Zero Networks Segment 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 Zero Networks Segment 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	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	1	1	5
Mistral Small	0	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	4	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	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

Direct14 labels3

Paraphrase24 labels7

Comparative29 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained13 labels3

Negative8 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative95 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 20 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 modern, identity/label-based tools (e.g., Calico for K8s, Zero Networks for simplicity)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · first choice

“I recommend Zero Networks.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Zero Networks (Runner-Up) - Best if: Your company is cloud-heavy or you want zero-trust segmentation” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Microsegmentation · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Choose Zero Networks if your top priority is automated microsegmentation with minimal manual policy work” GPT-5.4 mini · Microsegmentation · 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.

“Zero Networks' MFA-centric model may not suit every environment... with Kubernetes segmentation still maturing.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Microsegmentation · negative prompt · soft negative

“Emerging; less mature integrations” Grok 4.1 Fast · Microsegmentation · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Zero Networks Segment, over the 95 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zero Networks Segment was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Illumio Segmentation77 of 9540Compare →

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation75 of 9516Compare →

Elisity56 of 952Not among the top eight

VMware NSX48 of 951Compare →

ColorTokens Xshield46 of 957Compare →

Cisco Secure Workload44 of 951Not among the top eight

Zscaler Private Access16 of 950Compare →

Cisco12 of 950Not among the top eight

Faddom8 of 953Compare →

Nutanix Flow Network Security8 of 950Not 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 Zero Networks Segment. 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 95 of the 95 answers that named Zero Networks Segment and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

elisity.com77

tigera.io55

zeronetworks.comYour site53

cyberpress.org52

gartner.com41

peerspot.com40

forrester.com38

aimultiple.com35

cybersecuritynews.com32

akamai.com29

399 of the 452 domain citations in answers naming Zero Networks Segment came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

elisity.com/blog/top-microsegmentation-solutions70

cyberpress.org/microsegmentation-tools-by-business-size52

peerspot.com/categories/microsegmentation-software34

cybersecuritynews.com/best-microsegmentation-tools32

tigera.io/learn/guides/microsegmentation/microsegmentation-software31

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-microsegmentation-solutions-q3-2024/RES18130230

aimultiple.com/microsegmentation-tools29

elisity.com/microsegmentation/best-zero-trust-microsegmentation-solutions27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

zeronetworks.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Zero Networks Segment takes 2% of first choices and ColorTokens Xshield takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “microsegmentation solution”

Position for “microsegmentation solutions”

Searches for its name, Google: 10 a month (“zero networks segment”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 27,418 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,731 · 142 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,474
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

45 ads · 34 text, 10 image, 1 video · 7 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2025, as Zero Networks Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 24 in the year, 21 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 8 of 94 in microsegmentation

Segment leader

25%

ColorTokens Xshield

First choices: 13 across its categories
Named in: 95 answers
Its own site cited: in 95 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on zeronetworks.com

482

subdomains included

Content

372

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

32 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	212	19	2026-09-23	MFA, ZTNA
Podcast or video	39	2	2026-09-15
Report or ebook	34	5	2026-09-02	MFA, ZTNA
Webinar or virtual event	33	2	2026-08-27	EDR, ZTNA
Case study	22	1	2026-07-13
Glossary or explainer	15	1	2026-09-23	ZTNA, MFA
Comparison	7	1	2026-08-31
News or press	6	0	2026-02-26
Template or tool	3	0	2026-04-03
Conference or event	1	0	2026-03-16

Most recent

2026-09-23Autonomous microsegmentation 101 blog
2026-09-23What is a vlan definition core components and segmentation strategies glossary or explainer
2026-09-15Ciso panel three enterprises built in ai containment and cyber resilience heres how they did it podcast or video
2026-09-14Cyber risk quantification how to measure business exposure and build a cyber resilience roadmap blog
2026-09-11How zero trust architecture reduces security opex blog
2026-09-08Ciso series why a flat network is an open door for attackers podcast or video

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page zeronetworks.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name MFA (17); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Zero Networks Segment

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

Zero Networks 31

Follow Zero Networks Segment

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Zero Networks Segment is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: microsegmentation and Zero Trust Security; automated microsegmentation
zeronetworks.com
For: CISOs, CTOs & CIOs, IT & Security Teams, Security Architects
zeronetworks.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Zero Networks Segment's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: zeronetworks.com, zeronetworks.com/platform, zeronetworks.com/company/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of 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 Zero Networks Segment'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 Zero Networks Segment, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Zero Networks Segment 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 Zero Networks Segment, 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.