# Cisco

Cisco is a cybersecurity company based in the United States, founded in 1984. It has 7 products listed on CybersecTools.

> Infrastructure provider offering networking, security, and data center solutions

Source: https://cybersectools.com/companies/cisco · Updated October 2026

## Quick facts

- Category: [Network Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/network-security)
- Type: Product vendor
- Headquarters: United States
- Founded: 1984
- Products listed: 7
- Ownership: Public company (CSCO)
- Website: [cisco.com](https://www.cisco.com/)

## What does Cisco do?

Cisco is a technology infrastructure company that provides networking, security, data center, and collaboration solutions for organizations across industries. The company designs and manufactures networking hardware including switches, routers, and silicon chips, alongside software platforms for managing IT infrastructure.

In cybersecurity, Cisco offers multiple security products and platforms including firewalls, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, microsegmentation solutions, and security observability tools. The company's security approach integrates protection across network infrastructure, data centers, cloud environments, and endpoints through what it calls a Hybrid Mesh Firewall architecture with distributed enforcement points.

Cisco's data center offerings include compute systems (UCS), networking infrastructure powered by Silicon One chips, and AI-optimized infrastructure through products like AI PODs and partnerships with NVIDIA. The company provides unified management and observability platforms such as Intersight for monitoring traditional and AI workloads across distributed environments.

The company serves enterprises, service providers, and hyperscale data centers globally. Cisco's solutions span SD-WAN for wide area networking, unified communications platforms, IoT-ready wireless infrastructure, and AI-ready data center systems. The company has received recognition from analyst firms including Gartner and Forrester across multiple categories including data center switching, SD-WAN, SIEM, observability platforms, enterprise firewalls, and microsegmentation.

Categories: [Network Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/network-security), [Security Operations](https://cybersectools.com/categories/security-operations), [Cloud Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/cloud-security), [Data Protection](https://cybersectools.com/categories/data-protection)

## Cisco products

- [Cisco XDR](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cisco-xdr): XDR platform with AI-driven threat detection across network, endpoint, email, cloud (commercial)
- [Snort Open Source](https://cybersectools.com/tools/snort-open-source): Snort is an open-source network intrusion detection and prevention system that analyzes traffic in real-time to identify and block malicious activity using rule-based detection methods. (commercial)
- [Cisco Identity Intelligence](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cisco-identity-intelligence): AI-powered identity visibility and threat detection solution (commercial)
- [Cisco Secure Firewall](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cisco-secure-firewall): Enterprise firewall solution for network security and traffic control (commercial)
- [Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cisco-secure-email-threat-defense): Email threat protection for Microsoft 365 with advanced detection capabilities (commercial)
- [Cisco Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cisco-web-application-and-api-protection-waap): Web app, mobile app, and API protection with bot and DDoS mitigation (commercial)
- [Skill Scanner](https://cybersectools.com/tools/skill-scanner): Open-source CLI scanner for detecting security risks in AI agent skills. (free)

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