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Cisco Secure Firewall
Advanced threat protection at scale
Gain advanced threat protection without compromising performance across data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments — with unified management across all your firewalls.
Unified firewall security. Built for the hybrid world.
Traditional firewalls can’t keep up with the demands of distributed workforces, multi-cloud environments, and evolving threats. Cisco Secure Firewall delivers a hybrid mesh firewall architecture with AI-powered threat intelligence, centralized management, and consistent policy enforcement — everywhere your network extends.
What’s new with Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco continues to push the boundaries of firewall innovation with new hardware, smarter policies, and seamless hybrid work support.
3x better price-performance
The new Secure Firewall family for distributed branches delivers 3x better price-performance, extending enterprise-grade security to every edge location without breaking the budget.
One policy across vendors
Intent-based policy management lets you define security intent once and enforce it consistently across Cisco and third-party firewalls, simplifying operations and reducing risk.
Hybrid work, uninterrupted
Hybrid private access ensures secure, seamless connectivity for remote and hybrid workers with always-on protection that follows users wherever they work.
Unmatched threat visibility and protection
Cisco Secure Firewall combines the world’s largest commercial threat intelligence organization with breakthrough AI and encryption inspection technologies to stop threats others miss.
Talos Threat Intelligence
Powered by 900 billion security events per day, Talos is the largest non-government threat intelligence organization in the world, protecting against known and emerging threats.
SnortML Zero-Day Protection
Machine-learning-powered Snort detects and blocks over 200 zero-day vulnerabilities per year, stopping threats before patches are available.
Encrypted Visibility Engine
The Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) identifies and blocks threats hiding inside encrypted traffic — without the need to decrypt, preserving privacy and performance.
Hybrid Mesh Architecture
A distributed security fabric that extends consistent firewall policies from data center to branch to cloud, managed through a single pane of glass.
Firewall solutions for every environment
From the data center to the cloud to the smallest branch, Cisco Secure Firewall has a purpose-built solution to protect your organization.
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Data Center
The Secure Firewall 6100 Series and 4200 Series deliver high-throughput, low-latency threat inspection built for the demands of modern data center environments.
Campus & Branch
The 3100 Series and 1200 Series provide enterprise-grade security for campus and branch offices with integrated SD-WAN and simplified deployment.
Small Business
The 1000 Series and new 200 Series bring enterprise security to small businesses and distributed branch edges with AI-powered inspection at an accessible price point.
Cloud & FWaaS
Cisco Multicloud Defense and Secure Access (Firewall-as-a-Service) extend firewall protection natively into AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid cloud architectures.
IoT & OT Security
The ISA3000 is a ruggedized firewall purpose-built for industrial and operational technology environments requiring specialized threat defense.
Virtual Firewall
FTDc (Firewall Threat Defense Container) delivers flexible, virtualized firewall capabilities for cloud-native and containerized application environments.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Centralized management with Security Cloud Control
Cisco Security Cloud Control provides a single management console for your entire firewall estate. Define intent-based policies once and deploy consistently across physical, virtual, and cloud-delivered firewalls — reducing complexity and operational overhead.
Integrations that strengthen your security posture
Cisco Secure Firewall works seamlessly with your broader security ecosystem to deliver defense in depth and streamlined operations.
Splunk
Stream firewall telemetry to Splunk for advanced analytics, SIEM correlation, and real-time security event monitoring across your organization.
Cisco ISE
Integrate with Identity Services Engine to enforce identity-based access policies and dynamic segmentation directly through your firewall.
Secure Workload
Combine firewall enforcement with micro-segmentation from Cisco Secure Workload to protect application workloads across hybrid environments.
Cisco XDR
Correlate firewall events with broader threat telemetry in Cisco XDR for unified detection, investigation, and automated response.
DDoS Protection
Layer volumetric DDoS mitigation with Cisco Secure Firewall to ensure availability against large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks.
WAAP
Extend protection to web applications and APIs with Web Application and API Protection, complementing your network firewall with application-layer defense.
Recognized by industry analysts
Cisco Secure Firewall is consistently recognized as a leader by the world’s top analyst firms and independent testing organizations.
IDC MarketScape Leader
Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Enterprise Hybrid Firewall, recognizing Cisco’s vision and execution across hybrid environments.
Forrester Wave Leader
Named a Leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewall Solutions, earning top scores in strategy and market presence.
NetSecOPEN Certified
30% faster than competitors with a 100% block rate in independent NetSecOPEN testing, proving real-world performance and protection.
Trusted by organizations worldwide
Ampol: Securing 60% of Australia’s fuel market
Ampol uses Cisco Secure Firewall to protect operations across its vast network of service stations and distribution infrastructure serving 60% of Australia’s fuel market.
Marian University: Zero-day protection
Marian University deploys Cisco Secure Firewall to provide zero-day threat protection across its campus, safeguarding students, faculty, and research data from emerging threats.
Frequently asked questions
A Hybrid Mesh Firewall is a distributed security architecture that extends consistent firewall policies across data centers, campuses, branches, cloud environments, and remote workers. Cisco Secure Firewall uses this approach to provide unified threat protection and centralized management through Security Cloud Control, regardless of where your users and workloads reside.
The Encrypted Visibility Engine uses machine learning to analyze encrypted traffic metadata and identify threats without decrypting the payload. This preserves user privacy and eliminates the performance penalty of TLS decryption while still detecting malware, command-and-control traffic, and other threats hidden inside encrypted connections.
Cisco offers firewalls for every environment: the 6100 and 4200 Series for data centers, the 3100 and 1200 Series for campus and branch, the 1000 and 200 Series for small businesses, Multicloud Defense and Secure Access for cloud, the ISA3000 for IoT/OT, and FTDc for virtual and containerized environments. Our team can help you select the right combination for your needs — contact us for a personalized recommendation.
Cisco Talos is one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world, analyzing over 900 billion security events per day. Talos feeds real-time threat intelligence directly into Cisco Secure Firewall, enabling it to block known threats, identify zero-day vulnerabilities (over 200 per year), and adapt to new attack techniques as they emerge.
Protect your network with Cisco Secure Firewall
Our certified Cisco security specialists can help you design and deploy the right firewall solution for your environment — from a single branch to a global hybrid mesh.
- AI-powered threat detection with Talos and SnortML
- Unified management across physical, virtual, and cloud firewalls
- Encrypted traffic inspection without decryption
- Response from a certified Cisco specialist within one business day
