# Cisco IronPort: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cisco-ironport

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Email security](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/security/email-security/index.md) | 0% | 62 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Traditional gateways (like older implementations of Cisco IronPort, Trend Micro, or standard configurations of Barracuda) rely on "known-bad" indicators" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Email security)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cisco IronPort, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- abnormal.ai: 2
- expertinsights.com: 2
- g2.com: 2
- proofpoint.com: 2
- softwareadvice.com: 2
- acronis.com: 1
- adaptivesecurity.com: 1
- allaboutcookies.org: 1
- bleepingcomputer.com: 1
- captaindns.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://proofpoint.com/us/blog/email-and-cloud-threats/why-legacy-email-gateways-dont-stop-todays-threats: 2
- https://abnormal.ai/blog/email-security-challenges-legacy-technology: 1
- https://abnormal.ai/learning/application-security-vulnerabilities: 1
- https://abnormal.ai/pt/blog/seg-outdated-technology: 1
- https://acronis.com/en/blog/posts/incident-response-guide-cyberthreat-recovery: 1
- https://adaptivesecurity.com/blog/email-security-risk-assessment: 1
- https://adaptivesecurity.com/blog/secure-email-gateway-vs-ices: 1
- https://allaboutcookies.org/worst-email-providers: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.