What does Cisco sell?

Cisco sells Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and Cisco Talos. Cisco Hypershield: A security architecture for data centers that segments workloads and closes exploit gaps at scale. Cisco Secure Access: A secure access service edge (SASE) product that unifies networking and security policy for a distributed workforce. Cisco Duo: An identity security product that gives visibility into an organization's identity ecosystem and enforces access policy. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE): A network access control product that uses data from across Cisco's stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints and grant trusted access.

From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. Cisco addresses organizations with a global workforce that need secure access for humans, things, and agents under one consistent policy model. Cisco addresses enterprises that want to govern an agentic AI workforce. Security teams are addressed with unified intelligence and operations for visibility across users, systems, and AI agents.

How does CISO Tribune file Cisco?

CISO Tribune files Cisco under Firewalls and NGFW, with SASE and SSE, Network access control and SIEM as secondary categories.

Where is Cisco headquartered?

Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States.

Cisco is publicly listed on NASDAQ under the ticker CSCO.

Which customers does Cisco name?

Organizations publicly named as Cisco customers on CISO Tribune's record: Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.

Company record · security vendor

Cisco

Where Cisco appears on the record (65)

Every page on CISO Tribune and its network that carries this company, 65 in all.

SEC filing: Form 10-K cybersecurity disclosure, fiscal 2026 · Item 1C, filed September 2, 2026
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SIEM vendors · category
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What the company sells

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. Cisco describes the offering as an open, network-native platform built to handle today's threats and enable the agentic enterprise at scale.

Cisco says its security applies policy, inspection, and enforcement at every connection. Cisco also describes unified data for earlier detection and faster response, powered by AI-driven context.

For cloud protection, Cisco describes securing modern cloud and AI apps at runtime with segmentation that keeps up with change, vulnerability shielding to close the patching gap, and protection for AI workloads. Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) is used to find malicious flows in encrypted traffic and to decrypt without sacrificing performance. Cisco says it stops zero days using Snort ML and Talos Threat Intelligence. Cisco offers distributed, optimized enforcement with unified management across a hybrid enterprise, and the same enforcement is described for data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.

Cisco describes a security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers. Cisco says the architecture closes exploit gaps, segments everywhere, and self-qualifies updates and changes.

For workforce protection, Cisco describes secure access for humans, things, and agents with one consistent policy model. Cisco offers a cloud-native security service edge (SSE) that includes digital experience monitoring. Cisco offers a single-vendor SASE that unifies networking and security for a global workforce. Cisco offers identity security for the workforce that helps see across the entire identity ecosystem. Cisco offers multicloud NAC with zero trust, which uses intel from across the stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints, and deliver trusted access.

For threat intelligence and response, Cisco describes detecting, investigating, and responding faster with unified intelligence and operations. Cisco says this gives a team continuous visibility across users, systems, and AI agents in a single platform. Cisco describes unifying the data fabric, analytics, tooling and AI to automate the mundane, clarify the complex, and proactively mitigate risk.

Cisco also addresses agentic AI. Cisco describes safeguarding the agentic workforce against malicious attacks and data leakage. Cisco says it integrates identity, access, and behavioral controls to govern an agentic AI workforce and reduce risk. At RSAC 2026, Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, challenged the industry to fundamentally reimagine security.

Cisco Services provide expert guidance to plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize an IT environment. Cisco says support for Cisco Security products is available through the Cisco support hub, which provides product-specific resources, documentation, downloads, and expert assistance.

Categories: Firewalls and NGFW (primary category)
SASE and SSE
Network access control
SIEM
Compare Cisco with companies in the same category
Headquarters: San Jose, United States^[3][13]
Founded: 1984^[4]
Ownership: Public (NASDAQ: CSCO)^{[1][2][10][12][13]}
CISO on record: Not yet on our record. Send a verified source
Website: cisco.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

Cisco Hypershield
A security architecture for data centers that segments workloads and closes exploit gaps at scale.
Cisco Secure Access
A secure access service edge (SASE) product that unifies networking and security policy for a distributed workforce.
Cisco Duo^[1]
An identity security product that gives visibility into an organization's identity ecosystem and enforces access policy.
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
A network access control product that uses data from across Cisco's stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints and grant trusted access.
Splunk Enterprise Security^[1]
A security information and event management product that detects and responds to threats using collected logs and events.
Cisco Talos^[1]
A threat intelligence and research organization that supplies threat data used across Cisco's security products.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of Cisco's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

On firewalls and ngfw, Cisco competes with Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies, Ecessa Corporation, Juniper Networks, SonicWall, Huawei, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aryaka and 7 more.
On sase and sse, Cisco competes with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aryaka, AT&T, Versa Networks, Zscaler, Cato Networks, Dispersive Stealth Networking, Netskope, Skyhigh Security, Fortinet and 8 more.
On network access control, Cisco competes with Forescout, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Elisity and Ordr.
On siem, Cisco competes with Alphabet, Elastic, Exabeam, Graylog, Guardsix, Gurucul, Hunters, RunReveal, Securonix, Splunk and 22 more.

What review platforms show

The headline rating and review count each platform showed in public search results on the day we looked, with the link. We do not read or reproduce the reviews, and a rating is the platform's, not ours.

G2 · 4.4 out of 5 · 13 reviews^[12]seen November 5, 2026

Named customers

Organizations publicly named as customers, each linked to the page that names it. Not a complete list, and not an endorsement.

Marriott^[5]Cisco
United States Golf Association^[6]Cisco
Rosen Hotels & Resorts^[7]Cisco
Elon University^[8]Cisco

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

[1]Security Products and Solutions for Cloud and Workforce Protection - CiscoCisco · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[2]Cisco reports fourth quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published August 12, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[3]IndexCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[4]Cisco systems reaches agreement with state city on major land purchaseCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published April 17, 1996 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[5]MarriottCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[6]cisco.comCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[7]Rosen hotels and resortsCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[8]Elon universityCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[9]Cisco reports third quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[10]Cisco announces intent to acquire astrix securityCisco · blogs.cisco.com · published May 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[11]Making AI Trustworthy and Observable in Real-Time: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire GalileoCisco Blogs · published April 9, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[12]Cisco Security Services Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
[13]Cisco completes EzDubs acquisition - CiscoCisco · published November 25, 2025 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

Last verified October 10, 2026. Our code found the quoted passage behind each fact on its source page when the fact was recorded, and re-checks every record against its sources each month.

Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 5, 2026 from the references above.

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Security leadership

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Questions CISOs ask about Cisco

What does Cisco sell?: Cisco sells Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and Cisco Talos. Cisco Hypershield: A security architecture for data centers that segments workloads and closes exploit gaps at scale. Cisco Secure Access: A secure access service edge (SASE) product that unifies networking and security policy for a distributed workforce. Cisco Duo: An identity security product that gives visibility into an organization's identity ecosystem and enforces access policy. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE): A network access control product that uses data from across Cisco's stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints and grant trusted access.
Who does Cisco fit?: From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. Cisco addresses organizations with a global workforce that need secure access for humans, things, and agents under one consistent policy model. Cisco addresses enterprises that want to govern an agentic AI workforce. Security teams are addressed with unified intelligence and operations for visibility across users, systems, and AI agents.
How does CISO Tribune file Cisco?: CISO Tribune files Cisco under Firewalls and NGFW, with SASE and SSE, Network access control and SIEM as secondary categories.
Where is Cisco headquartered?: Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When was Cisco founded?: Cisco was founded in 1984.
Who owns Cisco?: Cisco is publicly listed on NASDAQ under the ticker CSCO.
Which customers does Cisco name?: Organizations publicly named as Cisco customers on CISO Tribune's record: Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.

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