Price-performance leadership
Gain up to 2.4 times faster throughput per dollar with more decryption and inspection capacity for your investment.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Protect applications wherever they live
As attackers weaponize AI, traditional security approaches fall short. Defenders need a distributed security fabric with unified management that is optimized for zero trust to protect applications, users, and devices across data center, cloud, campus, branch, and IoT environments.
What is Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall?
This single-management interface security solution unifies distributed enforcement points—including firewalls, smart switches, agents, AI guardrails, and third-party firewalls—across your data center, branch, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.
Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall enables you to stop advanced threats, protect the development and deployment of AI models, shield vulnerabilities, and stop unauthorized lateral movement.
Policy is orchestrated by Cisco Cloud Control—a unified, intent-based console that applies the correct access control to the appropriate enforcement point.
The Cisco advantage
Enhanced encrypted traffic inspection
Provide visibility to malicious flows in encrypted traffic without decryption and sacrificing performance with Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine.
End-to-end segmentation
Stop unauthorized lateral movement with identity-aware, zero-trust segmentation from the network edge down to the process level—with and without agents.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall results
The technology behind Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall delivers powerful protection across your enterprise for users, devices, and applications.
Outcomes
Protect AI workloads
Protect the development and deployment of AI applications, including agents and MCP servers. Safeguard your AI operations with AI supply-chain scanning, algorithmic red teaming, and native guardrails—powered by Cisco AI Defense.
Learn MoreProtect Kubernetes environments
Get kernel level visibility and control for runtime security in Kubernetes environments using eBPF, powered by Isovalent Enterprise Platform.
Learn MoreEnd-to-end segmentation
Reduce the attack surface and prevent unauthorized lateral movement with identity-driven macro and microsegmentation for any application in any environment, powered by Cisco Secure Workload.
Learn MoreStop advanced threats
Find malicious flows in encrypted traffic and intelligently decrypt without sacrificing performance with Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE). Stop zero-days by leveraging Snort ML and Talos Threat intelligence, powered by Cisco Firewall.
Learn MoreConsistent multicloud firewalling
Extend Layer-7 firewalling capabilities to the cloud, natively. Leverage cloud agnostic automation and orchestration for deployment, scaling, and auto-healing of enforcement points, powered by Cisco Multicloud Defense.
Learn MoreShield vulnerabilities
Prioritize vulnerable apps, infrastructure, and operating systems. Apply compensating controls immediately to prevent exploitation while patches are being developed, powered by Cisco Hypershield technology.
Learn MoreUnified agentic operations
Proactively analyze traffic, health, and configuration data across environments with agentic operations. Simplify rule creation, policy administration, and troubleshooting as well as orchestrate policies for Cisco and third-party firewalls.
Integrations
Zero Trust Access from Cisco
Enforce user policies on the Hybrid Mesh Firewall to provide direct access to sensitive applications and improve the experience for on-premises users.
Learn MoreCisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Share the identity context of users and devices, including IoT/OT, natively, with Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution for granular segmentation in the hybrid data center.
Learn MoreSplunk
Reveal more critical security insights and accelerate threat response. Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense customers who subscribe to Splunk may be eligible for extra log data at no additional licensing cost.
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