Cisco Secure Firewall
Intelligent control points everywhere, with unified policy and threat visibility.
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Secure Firewall: What's new
Simplify firewalling in AWS
Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual now supports AWS Gateway Load Balancer. Using GENEVE protocol, our integration simplifies deployment, management, and scaling of your Cisco firewall without requiring any routing changes.
Keep your network from going dark
Our new Encrypted Visibility Engine feature, now in beta, passively detects threats in encrypted traffic, provides granular visibility into users' client software, and identifies "shadow IT" applications.
Empowering NetOps to run at DevOps speed
Today's dynamic applications run everywhere. To help you keep pace, Cisco's NetWORK security vision includes solutions integration. Dynamic policies work for you, coordinating protection at the network firewall and workload levels.
Superior performance
With Firewall Threat Defense 7.1, experience up to 30 percent faster throughput on most of our firewalls.
Snort 3 IPS is here
The next step in threat protection is now available in Firewall Management Center to help improve detection, customization, and enhance performance.
Stronger security with dynamic attributes
Secure Firewall's dynamic attributes support VMware, AWS, and Azure tags; beneficial in situations where static IP addresses are not available.
Industry recognition
Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award
Cisco Secure Firewall earns an exclusive award for excellence in the global network firewall market in 2021.
SE Labs Best NGFW Award
SE Labs has named Cisco Secure Firewall, exclusively, as Best Next Generation Firewall in its 2021 annual report.
Why Cisco Secure Firewall?
Cisco Secure Firewall is foundational to the industry’s most complete and open security platform.
World-class security controls
Defending networks against increasingly sophisticated threats requires industry-leading intelligence and consistent protections everywhere. Improve your security posture today with Cisco Secure Firewall.
Consistent policy and visibility
As networks become more interconnected, achieving comprehensive threat visibility and consistent policy management is difficult. Simplify security management and gain visibility across distributed and hybrid networks.
Integrate network and security
Cisco Secure Firewall sets the foundation for integrating powerful threat prevention capabilities into your existing network infrastructure, making the network a logical extension of your firewall solution.
Cisco named a leader
Forrester has named Cisco a leader in The Forrester WaveTM: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020.
The firewall at your security platform's core
Choose your firewall
Firepower 1000 Series
For SMB and branch offices. Simplified Cisco Defense Orchestrator management saves you administration time so you can spend more driving your business forward.
Firepower 2100 Series
For large branch, commercial and enterprise needs. Select the management option that suits your environment and how you work.
Firepower 4100 Series
For large campus and data center, create logical firewalls for deployment flexibility, inspect encrypted web traffic, protect against DDoS attacks, cluster devices for performance and high availability, scalable VPNs, block network intrusions, and more.
Firepower 9300
For service providers and high-performance data centers, this carrier-grade modular platform enables the creation of separate logical firewalls and scalable VPNs, inspects encrypted web traffic, protects against DDoS attacks, clusters devices for performance and high availability, blocks network intrusions, and more.
Virtual firewalls for private cloud and public cloud
Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual and ASA Virtual deliver consistent, automated policies across physical and cloud environments with centralized management, deep visibility for advanced threat detection, and protection across cloud environments.
Cisco Secure ISA 3000
Enforce consistent security policies across OT and IT environments. Our industrial security appliance (ISA) extends the network as a sensor and enforcer to IoT environments for multi-industry operations and regulatory compliance.
ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
ASA 5500-X appliances combine robust hardware platforms with advanced threat inspection technologies to enable small to mid-sized organizations as well as branch offices stay protected against the latest threats.
Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native
Our developer-friendly firewall solution delivers granular controls. Orchestrated by Kubernetes, it offers scalable and resilient security services, enabling security at the speed of business.
Secure IPS
Explore Secure IPS
With Cisco Secure IPS (formerly NGIPS) you get comprehensive and consistent threat protection.
Snort 3.0 GA is available
Learn more about Snort 3's improvements and new features, and check out our quick breakdown here.
Management and analytics
Secure Firewall Management Center
Provides unified management of firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and malware defense.
Defense Orchestrator
Manage security policies simply and consistently from the cloud.
Security Analytics and Logging
Scalable log management with advanced analytics means faster time to detection.
Give your firewall the SecureX advantage
Unlock more value from your firewall with the built-in Cisco SecureX platform for a more consistent experience that unifies visibility, enables automation, and strengthens your security across network, endpoints, cloud, and applications.
ThreatWise TV firewall episodes
Hear what Forrester says are the three keys to vendor success in the Firewall market, and how Cisco stacks up.
See how Cisco Secure Firewall with SecureX automates rapid alerting, investigation, and response.
Watch how SecureX with Cisco Talos and third-party vulnerability sources simplify the hunt.
Customer reviews
Reviews at Gartner
Read Gartner Peer Insights reviews on Cisco Secure Firewall.
Easy VPN
Improve your network security and workforce productivity with Cisco Secure Firewall, AnyConnect, and Duo.
Customer success stories
Cisco firewalls in the cloud
Festo was able to support 14,000 remote workers worldwide after innovating with Cisco virtual firewalls on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Transitioning to work from home (WFH)
Learn how Alvarez and Marsal, a business consulting company out of Texas, leveraged Cisco Secure Firewalls to get more processing capacity to support their employees working from home.
Recommended content
Cisco Secure Firewall YouTube channel
Visit our YouTube channel to watch more videos about Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco named a leader
Forrester has named Cisco a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020.
Join our community
Join your peers and Cisco experts in the Cisco Secure Firewalls Community.
Upgrade to Cisco Secure Firewall
Migrate from legacy to superior threat detection and prevention with Cisco Secure Firewall.
Cisco Secure Awareness Training
Cyber criminals know that employees can be exploited. Cisco Secure Awareness Training educates users to work smarter and safer, strengthening your security approach.
Let the experts secure your network with Cisco Services
Cisco offers a wide array of advisory, implementation, managed, technical, and optimization services to help you protect your business.
The choice is simple
Cisco Secure products are simple to use, simple to choose. Now they've never been simpler to buy. With the Choice Enterprise Agreement buy only what you need and manage it in a single agreement. Your security works together against attacks.
Resources
Data sheets and literature
- Cisco Secure Firewall At-a-Glance (PDF - 146 KB)
- Cisco Secure Firewall customer success stories
- Cisco Secure Firewall interactive e-book
- Cisco Secure Firewall solution overview (PDF - 612 KB)
- Cisco Secure Firewall white papers
- White paper: The Future of the Firewall
- White Paper: Cisco Talos delivers industry leading threat intelligence
Next steps
Security that works for you
You don't have to be an expert in security to protect your business. A simple unified security platform can keep you humming along.
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