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Zscaler ZIA

3Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

3 / 14Models named it

2Categories

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. Zscaler ZIA was named 2 times in SSPM and 1 other category, where Wing Security led with 30%. 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-market92 of 95

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In sspm · 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 ZIA 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
SaaS security posture management	Security operations	0%	92 of 95	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wing Security at 30%
SASE platforms	Network and edge	0%	41 of 45	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cato Networks at 35%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

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

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
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	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 label1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“It is less of a full "network" replacement and more of a "security overlay," so it is best paired with a separate networking provider.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SASE · direct prompt · soft negative

“SSE / CASB vendors with bolted-on SSPM... less a pure SSPM play and more a traffic/visibility first platform.” Muse Glimmer 30B · SSPM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Zscaler ZIA, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zscaler ZIA was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cato Networks1 of 31Not among the top eight

Adaptive Shield1 of 30Not among the top eight

Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise1 of 30Not among the top eight

AppOmni1 of 30Not among the top eight

Axonius1 of 30Not among the top eight

BetterCloud1 of 30Not among the top eight

BlueCat Networks1 of 30Not among the top eight

Check Point1 of 30Not among the top eight

CheckRed Security1 of 30Not among the top eight

Cisco Cloudlock / Skyhigh1 of 30Not 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 ZIA. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named Zscaler ZIA and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org2

cybersecuritynews.com2

devopsschool.com2

guideflow.com2

aimultiple.com1

bankinfosecurity.com1

blog.scalefusion.com1

busistack.com1

cloudeagle.ai1

controld.com1

Fourteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Zscaler ZIA came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/dns-security1

bankinfosecurity.com/crowdstrike-bolsters-saas-security-adaptive-shield-buy-a-267401

blog.scalefusion.com/best-secure-web-gateway-solutions1

busistack.com/best-sspm-tools-for-saas-security1

cloudeagle.ai/blogs/best-saas-security-posture-management-tools1

controld.com/blog/dnsfilter-vs-nextdns1

controld.com/blog/nextdns-alternatives1

crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-acquires-adaptive-shield-and-integrates-saas-protec1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow Zscaler ZIA

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 ZIA.

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On record

Company records

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

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Internet & SaaS (ZIA)
help.zscaler.com/zia/about-internet-saas-users
For: organizations whose users work from mainland China and are required to access international sites
help.zscaler.com/zia/managing-internet-saas-use-china
Hosting: within ChinaBeijingShanghai
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, customers

What Zscaler ZIA's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: help.zscaler.com/zia/about-internet-saas-users, help.zscaler.com/zia/managing-internet-saas-use-china, help.zscaler.com/zia/adding-internet-saas-admin-roles, help.zscaler.com/zia/about-administrators-internet-saas, help.zscaler.com/zia/zscaler-dns-security-and-control-0. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Zscaler ZIA'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 Zscaler ZIA, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where Zscaler ZIA 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 ZIA, 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.