Cisco Secure Firewall

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Product

Cisco's next-generation firewall line spanning branch, campus and data-centre appliances plus virtual, cloud and container deployments. Talos analyzes 900 billion security events every day using machine-learning engines and distills them into threat protection services for Cisco Firewall to defend against advanced attacks. Use our interactive calculator to see how much you could save by moving your firewall management to Cisco Cloud Control. NetSecOPEN testing showed that Cisco Firewall remained 30% faster than competitor firewalls while achieving a 100% block rate. It is available as a hardware appliance.

Current Version: 10.1.0
Product Page: cisco.com/…/firewalls
Market: EnterpriseOT / ICSSMB
Licence: Paid
Price: Quote
Record Created: 2026-09-19
Last Updated: 2026-10-28

Vendor

Cisco is a networking company that also sells a great deal of security, and its security portfolio has been assembled largely by acquisition — Sourcefire, OpenDNS, Duo Security, Meraki and, most recently, Splunk, each of which arrived with its own product and its own name. The security products in this index are the endpoint and firewall lines: Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Firewall, Cisco Meraki MX for cloud-managed branch security, and Cisco Multicloud Defense for cloud workloads, with Cisco Umbrella for DNS-layer filtering, Cisco Duo for multi-factor authentication, Cisco Identity Services Engine for network access control and Cisco XDR tying detections together. Cisco Talos, its threat intelligence group, is one of the largest commercial research teams in the industry and publishes widely; its findings feed every product above. For a buyer, the practical point is that Cisco's security is generally bought by organisations that already run Cisco networks, and the integration with that network is the argument for it. Vendor page →

Website: cisco.com
Country: United States
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Year Established: 1984
Customers: 1M organisations
Users: 87M users
Revenue: $63.3B (2026)

Platforms

Hardware Appliance

native

Target Market

Enterprise secondaryOT / ICS secondarySMB primary

Capabilities

Specifications

Pricing

Plan	Licence	Priced per	Billed	Price
Summary	Price on request	not stated	no recurring charge	Quote

Versions

10.1.0platform not recordedreleased 2026-09-21

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

NetSecOPEN Network Security Test

Tested: Secure Firewall 61602026-07-15lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

NetSecOPEN Network Security TestNetSecOPEN — Secure Firewall 6160, Threat Defense 10.0.0 (UNH-IOL)2026-07-15

Exploits Blocked: 100%HTTPS Throughput (inspected): 222.37 GbpsHTTPS Connections/s: 79625

NetSecOPEN Network Security TestNetSecOPEN — Secure Firewall 1220CX, Threat Defense 7.7.0 (UNH-IOL)2025-09-15

Exploits Blocked: 99.65%HTTPS Throughput (inspected): 2.55 GbpsHTTPS Connections/s: 2693

NetSecOPEN Network Security TestNetSecOPEN — Secure Firewall 3105, Threat Defense 7.4.1.1 (UNH-IOL)2024-10-08

Exploits Blocked: 98.7%HTTPS Throughput (inspected): 4.545 GbpsHTTPS Connections/s: 6922

NetSecOPEN Network Security TestNetSecOPEN — Firepower 4120, FTD 6.4.0.4 (UNH-IOL)2020-02-19

HTTPS Throughput (inspected): 6.7 GbpsHTTPS Connections/s: 6544

Certifications

Common CriteriaEAL47 active10 expiredshow 17 certificates ▾

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) 7.4 with Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) 7.4 and Secure Client 5.1EAL4activeissued 2025-03-23
Cisco FTD 7.4 on Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series with FMC/FMCvactiveissued 2025-02-19
Cisco FTD 7.4 on Cisco Secure Firewall 3100 Series with FMC/FMCvactiveissued 2025-01-31
Cisco ASA 9.20 on Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Seriesactiveissued 2025-01-13
Cisco ASA 9.20 on Firepower 4100 and 9300 Security Appliancesactiveissued 2025-01-10
Cisco ASA 9.20 on Cisco Secure Firewall 3100 Seriesactiveissued 2025-01-06
Cisco ASA 9.20 on Firepower 1000 Seriesactiveissued 2024-11-14
Cisco FTD (NGFW) 7.0 on ASA 5500 and ISA 3000 and FTDv with FMC/FMCvexpiredissued 2023-02-13
Cisco ASA 9.16 on Firepower 4100 and 9300 Security Appliancesexpiredissued 2022-08-12
Cisco ASA 9.12 running on Firepower 4100 and 9300 Security Appliancesexpiredissued 2021-01-04
Cisco ASA and FXOS on Firepower 4100/9300expiredissued 2017-09-11
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances and ASA Virtual Version 9.6expiredissued 2017-04-04
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Platform, version 9.4(1)expiredissued 2015-07-21
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Platform, version 8.4(4.1)EAL4expiredissued 2012-10-11
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) PlatformEAL4expiredissued 2011-07-11
Cisco ASA 5505, 5510, 5520, 5540, and 5550 (Release 7.2(4)), Cisco VPN Client Release 5.0.03.0560EAL4expiredissued 2009-04-13
Cisco ASA 5510, 5520, and 5540 Adaptive Security Appliances and Cisco PIX 515, 515E, 525, 535 Security Appliances, Version 7.0(6)EAL4expiredissued 2007-03-09

FIPS 140-311 activeshow 11 certificates ▾

FIPS 140-3 #5472activeissued 2026-08-06
FIPS 140-3 #5456activeissued 2026-07-31
FIPS 140-3 #5287activeissued 2026-05-22
FIPS 140-3 #5069activeissued 2025-09-23
FIPS 140-3 #5071activeissued 2025-09-23
FIPS 140-3 #5070activeissued 2025-09-23
FIPS 140-3 #5067activeissued 2025-09-22
FIPS 140-3 #5066activeissued 2025-09-22
FIPS 140-3 #5035activeissued 2025-07-01
FIPS 140-3 #4979activeissued 2025-02-28
FIPS 140-3 #4966activeissued 2025-02-14

NetSecOPEN CertificationCertified4 activeshow 4 certificates ▾

Secure Firewall 6160, Threat Defense 10.0.0 (UNH-IOL)Certifiedactiveissued 2026-07-15
Secure Firewall 1220CX, Threat Defense 7.7.0 (UNH-IOL)Certifiedactiveissued 2025-09-15
Secure Firewall 3105, Threat Defense 7.4.1.1 (UNH-IOL)Certifiedactiveissued 2024-10-08
Firepower 4120, FTD 6.4.0.4 (UNH-IOL)Certifiedactiveissued 2020-02-19

Change History

This record was created 2026-09-19. Everything below is what has changed since.

2026-10-28New versionNew version: 10.1.0evidence
2026-10-07Test result addedNew NetSecOPEN Network Security Test resultevidence
2026-10-07Test result addedNew NetSecOPEN Network Security Test resultevidence
2026-10-07Test result addedNew NetSecOPEN Network Security Test resultevidence
2026-10-07Test result addedNew NetSecOPEN Network Security Test resultevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedDeep Packet Inspection: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedHigh Availability: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedApplication Control: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedSD-WAN: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedVPN Gateway: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedIntrusion Detection (IDS): built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedIntrusion Prevention (IPS): built inevidence
2026-10-06Capability addedSSL/TLS Inspection: built inevidence
2026-10-06Capability addedSD-WAN: integratedevidence
2026-10-06Capability addedStateful Inspection: built inevidence
2026-10-06Capability addedCentral Management Console: built inevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: NetSecOPEN Certification (Certified)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: NetSecOPEN Certification (Certified)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: NetSecOPEN Certification (Certified)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: NetSecOPEN Certification (Certified)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence

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Stateful Inspectionkey	native
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)key	native
Intrusion Detection (IDS)	native
SSL/TLS Inspectionkey	native
VPN Gatewaykey	native
SD-WAN	native
Application Controlkey	native
High Availability	native
Deep Packet Inspection	native
Central Management Console	native