# Cisco NAC Appliance: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cisco-nac-appliance

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Network access control](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/network-access-control/index.md) | 0% | 111 | 100% | 2 |

## And against it

- "EOL for over a decade. Cisco replaced Clean Access with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine)." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, NAC)
- "Retired in 2018 with no further support" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, NAC)

## 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 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 NAC Appliance, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- app.opencve.io: 1
- auvik.com: 1
- cisco.com: 1 (its own site)
- community.broadcom.com: 1
- computerworld.com: 1
- consumerlab.com: 1
- cvefeed.io: 1
- docs.genians.com: 1
- drugoffice.gov.hk: 1
- dsld.od.nih.gov: 1

### Pages cited

- https://app.opencve.io/cve/CVE-2026-7852: 1
- https://auvik.com/franklyit/blog/what-is-network-access-control-nac: 1
- https://cisco.com/c/en/us/obsolete/security/cisco-nac-appliance-clean-access.html: 1
- https://cisco.com/c/en/us/obsolete/security/cisco-nac-legacy-software.html: 1
- https://community.broadcom.com/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument: 1
- https://computerworld.com/article/1555281/nac-what-went-wrong.html: 1
- https://consumerlab.com/n-acetyl-cysteine-nac: 1
- https://cvefeed.io/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76147: 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.