SASE platforms · Named, not rankedCisco Secure Connect
Cisco Secure Connect is a secure access service edge (SASE) platform from Cisco · cisco.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Cisco Secure Connect has 4.
Why models recommend it
“Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Cisco Secure Connect are the top choices”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Good for hybrid B2B setups, but it can be more complex to manage and less "cloud-first" than Prisma”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“and Cisco Secure Connect if you're already a Meraki shop”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“their SASE offerings may lack the native convergence and single-pass architecture of more specialized leaders. Vet them heavily”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Secure Connect, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cisco Secure Connect's own site, not checked by Gane.
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
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Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 11 of the 13 answers that named Cisco Secure Connect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Cisco Secure Connect came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |