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Zscaler DNS Security

7Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 / 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Zscaler DNS Security was named 3 times in DNS filtering, where DNSFilter led with 59%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market19 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprise18 of 73

under the label threshold

In dns filtering · 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 Zscaler DNS Security 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
DNS filtering	Network and edge	0%	19 of 94	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59%

Movement

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative4 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

“Best for advanced enterprise security architecture: Zscaler DNS Security” GPT-5.4 mini · DNS filtering · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for: Companies requiring full Zscaler ecosystem integration” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DNS filtering · comparative prompt · alternative

“consider Cloudflare Gateway or Zscaler as strong alternatives” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DNS filtering · paraphrase 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 Zscaler DNS Security, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zscaler DNS Security was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare Gateway6 of 70Not among the top eight

Cisco Umbrella5 of 72Not among the top eight

DNSFilter5 of 72Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Access – DNS Defense2 of 70Not among the top eight

Control D2 of 70Not among the top eight

Infoblox Threat Defense2 of 70Not among the top eight

Palo Alto Networks DNS Security2 of 70Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Access1 of 71Not among the top eight

AdGuard DNS1 of 70Not among the top eight

Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector1 of 70Not 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 Zscaler DNS Security. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Zscaler DNS Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zscaler.comYour site6

aimultiple.com3

controld.com3

cybersecuritynews.com3

developers.cloudflare.com3

dnsfilter.com3

umbrella.cisco.com3

bestdevops.com2

cloudflare.com2

cyberpress.org2

Twenty-four of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Zscaler DNS Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

zscaler.com/products-and-solutions/dns-security5

aimultiple.com/dns-security3

developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/traffic-policies/dns-policies3

bestdevops.com/top-10-dns-filtering-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison2

cybersecuritynews.com/best-dns-security-solutions2

cybersecuritynews.com/bst-protective-dns-services2

expertinsights.com/web-security/the-top-dns-web-filtering-platforms-for-businesses2

thectoclub.com/tools/best-dns-security-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow Zscaler DNS Security

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.

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The company

Zscaler is the company behind Zscaler DNS Security.

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On record

Company records

Also from Zscaler: Zscaler, Zscaler Advanced SSPM, Zscaler DSPM, Zscaler Deception, Zscaler Internet Access, Zscaler Posture, Zscaler Posture Control, Zscaler Private Access and 7 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: A Zscaler service that allows you to define rules to control DNS requests and responses.
help.zscaler.com/zia/about-dns-control
For: your organization
help.zscaler.com/zscaler-deployments-operations/dns-control-deployment-and-operations-guide
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Zscaler DNS Security's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: help.zscaler.com/zia/about-dns-control, help.zscaler.com/zia/zscaler-dns-security-and-control-0, help.zscaler.com/zscaler-deployments-operations/dns-control-deployment-and-operations-guide. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Zscaler DNS Security 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 Zscaler DNS Security, 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.