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San Jose, California, USA

Headquarters

1984

Founded

80,000+

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Worldwide

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About Cisco

Cisco is a global networking and cybersecurity technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. Its security portfolio protects users, devices, applications, networks and cloud environments across enterprise and service-provider infrastructures. Cisco provides network security, firewall, secure access, endpoint protection, cloud security, email security, identity and zero trust capabilities. Its Security Cloud platform brings security technologies together across hybrid environments, while Cisco Secure Access provides SASE and zero trust network access capabilities. Cisco also provides security analytics, threat intelligence and extended detection and response through technologies integrated across its security portfolio. The company's networking footprint gives it extensive visibility into enterprise traffic and infrastructure, allowing security controls to be integrated directly with connectivity. Cisco serves organizations ranging from small businesses to global enterprises and governments. Its security technologies are commonly deployed in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, education and public-sector environments. Cisco's approach increasingly focuses on secure access for users and workloads regardless of location, combining networking and security rather than treating them as separate systems. The company also operates Talos, a major threat intelligence and research organization that tracks vulnerabilities, malware and attack campaigns. Its broad portfolio makes it one of the major enterprise security and networking vendors.

Main focus: Network security, cloud security, SASE, zero trust, endpoint security and threat intelligence

Target customers: Enterprises, governments, service providers, SMBs and organizations operating complex hybrid networks

Network Security
SASE
Zero Trust
Cloud Security

Categories & Solutions

Cisco is listed across published cybersecurity categories

Subcategories

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Robust Intelligence Platform

Robust Intelligence Platform: compliance auditing and model drift monitoring. Built for AI model vulnerability testing. Compare AI Security alternatives.

AI & Emerging Technology Security
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Duo Access

Duo Access by Cisco is an adaptive MFA & single sign-on. Key features include push MFA and single sign-on. Compare deployment, integrations and top MFA alternatives.

Identity & Access Security
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Duo Trusted Endpoints

Evaluating Duo Trusted Endpoints? See how this Endpoint Security tool handles device trust validation, where it fits best and which alternatives to compare.

Endpoint Security
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Duo MFA

Duo MFA offers hardware tokens, SMS/voice tokens, offline passcodes and one-tap mobile push. Use it for Two-Factor Authentication. See MFA alternatives.

Identity & Access Security
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Duo SSO

Duo SSO offers directory sync, user provisioning, cloud SAML 2.0 IdP and policy enforcement. Use it for Single Sign-On and Identity Access. See SSO alternatives.

Identity & Access Security
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Duo Device Trust

Evaluating Duo Device Trust? See how this Endpoint Security tool handles browser check and jailbreak detection, where it fits best and which alternatives to compare.

Endpoint Security
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Duo Passwordless

Free trial available. Duo Passwordless by Cisco offers browser login and FIDO2/WebAuthn biometrics. Compare features, use cases and leading IAM alternatives.

Identity & Access Security
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Duo Network Gateway

Duo Network Gateway by Cisco is a zero trust network gateway proxy. Key features include SSH bastion. Compare deployment, integrations and top Zero Trust alternatives.

Zero Trust & SASE
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Cisco Umbrella DNS-layer Security

Cisco Umbrella DNS-layer Security: predictive phishing defense and category-based content filtering. Built for web content filtering. Compare DNS Security alternatives.

Network Security
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Cisco Secure Endpoint

Cisco Secure Endpoint is an endpoint detection and response platform for endpoint detection and response. See features and Endpoint Security alternatives.

Endpoint Security
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Cisco Meraki MR

Try Cisco Meraki MR free: a cloud-managed wireless access point with guest splash portal. See who it suits and how it stacks up against other Wireless Security tools.

Mobile & Wireless Security
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Cisco Catalyst Center

Evaluating Cisco Catalyst Center? See how this Firewall Management tool handles AI Network Analytics, where it fits best and which alternatives to compare.

Network Security
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Cisco AI Defense

Cisco AI Defense is an AI security & guardrails platform for LLM prompt injection protection and AI agent guardrails. See features and AI Security alternatives.

AI & Emerging Technology Security
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Cisco ThousandEyes

Cisco ThousandEyes by Cisco: BGP route monitoring. Ideal for end-to-end digital experience monitoring. Deployment: cloud. See how it compares with top NDR alternatives.

Network Security
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Cisco Security Cloud Control

Looking for Cloud Security software? Cisco Security Cloud Control by Cisco provides reusable policy objects for compliance reporting. Compare features and alternatives.

Security Operations
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Cisco Umbrella

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-delivered SASE & secure web gateway platform for secure web browsing and shadow IT governance. See features and SASE alternatives.

Network Security
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Cisco Secure Malware Analytics

Cisco Secure Malware Analytics is an automated malware analysis & threat sandboxing for zero-day malware detonation. See features and Malware Analysis alternatives.

Incident Response & Digital Forensics
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Cisco Security Manager

Cisco Security Manager: centralized firewall configuration and VPN lifecycle management. Built for configuration rollbacks. Compare Firewall Management alternatives.

Network Security
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Cisco Secure IPS

Cisco Secure IPS delivers snort 3 inspection engine for network intrusion prevention. Explore its Network Security capabilities, deployment choices and top competitors.

Network Security
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Cisco Cyber Vision

Cisco Cyber Vision covers passive deep packet inspection and industrial asset discovery for industrial asset discovery. Compare top Network Security tools.

IoT, OT & Industrial Security
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Cisco Secure Email

Cisco Secure Email delivers dynamic file analysis for phishing prevention. Explore its Email Security capabilities, deployment choices and top competitors.

Email & Messaging Security
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Cisco Cloudlock

See what Cisco Cloudlock offers: API-driven CASB. It is built for cloud data loss prevention, supports cloud deployment and competes with other Cloud Security tools.

Zero Trust & SASE
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Cisco Secure Access

Cisco Secure Access by Cisco: Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service. Ideal for CASB SaaS defense. Deployment: cloud. See how it compares with top SSE alternatives.

Zero Trust & SASE
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Cisco Identity Services Engine

Cisco Identity Services Engine delivers BYOD onboarding for network access control. Explore its Identity Security capabilities, deployment choices and top competitors.

Identity & Access Security
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Cisco Identity Intelligence

Cisco Identity Intelligence: automated remediation and impossible travel detection. Built for dormant identity hygiene. Compare Identity Security alternatives.

Identity & Access Security
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Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms

Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms: snort IPS and dual power supplies. Built for branch SD-WAN connectivity. Compare Network Security alternatives.

Network Security
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Cisco XDR

Cisco XDR from Cisco focuses on alert fatigue reduction. Key capabilities: asset risk scoring and Visual Attack Storyboards. Compare it with the leading XDR alternatives.

Endpoint Security
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Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco Secure Firewall from Cisco focuses on perimeter threat defense. Key capabilities: URL filtering. Compare it with the leading Firewall alternatives.

Network Security
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Cisco Duo Customer Identity

Cisco Duo Customer Identity helps teams with frictionless customer MFA. Explore features like fraud prevention, cloud deployment and the closest CIAM competitors.

Identity & Access Security
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN covers application-aware traffic routing and dynamic path selection for multi-cloud onramp and branch router security. Compare top SD-WAN tools.

Zero Trust & SASE
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Cisco Wireless Security

What does Cisco Wireless Security do? It covers client isolation. See typical use cases, cloud or on-premises deployment and how it compares to rivals.

Mobile & Wireless Security
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Cisco Secure Workload

Free trial available. Cisco Secure Workload by Cisco offers process behavior baselining. Compare features, use cases and leading Microsegmentation alternatives.

Cloud Security
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Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series

Get the facts on Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series: Integrated Snort IPS. Built for enterprise branch SD-WAN. Compare it with other SD-WAN options before you decide.

Network Security
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics

Free trial available. Cisco Secure Network Analytics by Cisco offers agentless flow ingestion. Compare features, use cases and leading Network Security alternatives.

Network Security
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Cisco Secure Client

Evaluating Cisco Secure Client? See how this Endpoint Security tool handles Network Visibility Module, where it fits best and which alternatives to compare.

Network Security

Solutions

Core capabilities Cisco delivers for security teams.

Network SecuritySASEZero TrustCloud SecurityEndpoint SecurityXDRFirewallThreat Intelligence

Industries Served

Cisco is listed for 13 industries

Cybersecurity
Networking
Cloud Security
SASE
Zero Trust
Financial Services
Healthcare
Government
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Technology
Education
Retail

Resources

Official links and ways to evaluate this vendor.

Company Info

The essentials about Cisco.

Company Type
Public Company
Headquarters
San Jose, California, USA
Founded
1984
Company Size
80,000+
Main Focus
Network security, cloud security, SASE, zero trust, endpoint security and threat intelligence
Target Customers
Enterprises, governments, service providers, SMBs and organizations operating complex hybrid networks

Security & Compliance

Standards, regulations, and frameworks this vendor aligns with.

  • ISOISO 27001
  • SOCSOC
  • FIPSFIPS
  • CCCommon Criteria
FedRAMP offeringsPCI DSS support

Keywords

Cisco cybersecuritynetwork securityCisco SecureSASEzero trustcloud securityendpoint securityXDRthreat intelligencefirewall

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