Cisco Service Provider Security

Provider infrastructure is critical infrastructure

Cisco helps service providers secure infrastructure, simplify operations, and create monetizable offerings—from silicon to service—with unified, AI-powered security.

Embrace the future with resilient security for service providers

Footholds in Infrastructure: Defending Service Providers from Cyberthreats

Discover the key cyberthreats targeting service providers, from espionage-driven advanced persistent threats (APTs) to silent intrusions and tough infrastructure decisions, and the risks they pose to critical networks.

Discover how Cisco can empower your team to secure infrastructure, streamline operations, and enable new services—protecting today's networks and adapting for tomorrow's needs.

Establish trust in infrastructure

Protect the integrity of core networks, 5G, and edge with embedded security, trusted silicon, and post-quantum readiness—helping ensure secure service delivery from the physical layer up.

Strengthen threat defense with AI

Stop advanced threats with adaptive, AI-powered defense that secures traffic across domains—including control/user planes, east-west data center flows, and AI inference pipelines.

Simplify and scale security operations

Unify security, telemetry, and automation across domains to reduce MTTR, boost visibility, and free IT resources to focus on innovation.

Monetize security services

Turn infrastructure security into a business model by enabling managed services—from DDoS protection to secure connectivity tiers—powered by built-in Cisco capabilities.

Secure from Silicon to Service

Build trust in your network

Strengthen trust in your network with secure, tamper-resistant infrastructure—helping ensure integrity and protection from the physical layer to service delivery.

Discover post-quantum security

Prepare for tomorrow's threats with post-quantum security—safeguarding service provider networks against future cryptographic attacks.

Security solutions

Trustworthy systems

Trustworthy solutions

Trustworthy solutions are with embedded with security across multiple platforms.

Operational security

IOS XR Software Hardening Guide

This guide recommended recommends control-plane protections, management security, and device baselines in the Cisco IOS XR Hardening Guide.

Transport and perimeter security

Cisco Secure Firewall

Gain Network Equipment-Building System (NEBS)-compliant, high-speed network security service insertion.

Transport and perimeter security

Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection

Use your existing routers to detect and neutralize DDoS attacks at the edge before malicious traffic ever reaches your core.

Embedded defenses

Live Protect

Reduce vulnerability exposure before the next patch window on your routers.

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