Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)

As one of the largest security companies in the world, we take great pride in building solutions that many thousands of organizations trust to secure their networks. Small businesses and large enterprises alike rely on Cisco firewalls to keep their organizations running. With our latest release, Fir…

Update 9/19/2019: Cisco Named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls Get the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls Read what Gee Rittenhouse has to say in his latest blog about our leadership position in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls and…

You have a Cisco ASA stateful firewall[i]. You like it. It’s reliable. You think, “It works… if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But you’ve had your ASA for years now, and during that time, threats have evolved. Malware is more sophisticated than ever. What’s more, your business has grown, the demands…

Your Security ‘Game Plan’: Is it Reactive or Proactive? In soccer, the name of the game is to play offensively rather than defensively. A good soccer team keeps the ball on the opponent’s side – and when it does penetrate those frontlines, the defensive players are prepared to fend off the threat. L…

Blog co-authored by Pramod Chandrashekar. Over the past year, cyber attacks have become increasingly common and sophisticated, they were carried out by not only individuals, hacker groups but also nation actors that are well equipped and financed. The sheer scope and audaciousness of these attacks a…

Battlefield decisions have to be lightning quick. Thanks to Cisco and Intel, special operations forces can now have more information at their fingertips for making those judgment calls. At this year’s Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, we presented a groundbreaking demonstration that hig…

We live in a time when lines in IT are blurring, and the line between security and network operations is just one example. When organizations are breached, their network is imperiled and business can suffer. Resiliency, performance, and threat defense are increasingly intertwined. No one understands…

What a giant year for Cisco Security! In 2016, we pursued our effective security architecture with innovative solutions – from the network to the endpoint to the cloud. I couldn’t be more proud of our team and the strides we made to bring together so many elements of our architecture in an integrate…

Cisco Firepower NGFW recognized with Best of Interop 2016 Award for Security Each year at Interop, a group of the most influential IT practitioners, analysts and professionals vote on the technologies that are having “the most significant technical impact on their segment and are helping to move bus…