New Features in 2026

These are the new Firewall features deployed in Security Cloud Control in 2026.

March 2026

March 12, 2026

New Smart Licensing Dashboard

Smart Licensing Dashboard has been introduced in Cisco Secure Firewall. This dashboard offers a unified view of license usage, license types, and compliance status, helping you ensure that your devices are licensed and remain compliant. This feature is currently available in limited release. To request access to this limited release feature, please contact your account team or Cisco representative.

For more information, see Overview of Smart Licensing Dashboard.

New Smart Licensing Dashboard for MSSP Portal

Smart Licensing Dashboard has been introduced in the MSSP Portal for Cisco Secure Firewall. This dashboard offers a unified view of license usage, license types, and compliance status, helping you ensure that your devices are licensed and remain compliant. This feature is currently available in limited release. To request access to this limited release feature, please contact your account team or Cisco representative.

For more information, see Overview of Smart Licensing Dashboard.

February 2026

February 19, 2026

New Smart Licensing Dashboard

Smart Licensing Dashboard has been introduced in Cisco Secure Firewall. This dashboard offers a unified view of license usage, license types, and compliance status, helping you ensure that your devices are licensed and remain compliant. This feature is currently available in limited release. To request access to this limited release feature, please contact your account team or Cisco representative.

For more information, see Overview of Smart Licensing Dashboard.

February 05, 2026

Introducing Application Insights

AIOps now features Application Insights, which uses ThousandEyes Internet Insights to proactively detect cloud application outages. It shows affected applications, impacted domains, outage duration, and affected regions for the monitored applications.

For more information, see Detect Application Outages.

January 2026

January 29, 2026

Multitenant Device Upgrades in MSSP Portal

With the new upgrades view in the MSSP portal, you can now bulk upgrade Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices managed by Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center (cdFMC) across multiple tenants.

For more information, see About Multitenant Device Upgrades in MSSP Portal.