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Cisco vs Juniper Networks

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. Juniper Networks sells firewalls in physical, virtual and containerized forms, managed in a unified experience. CISO Tribune files both under Firewalls and NGFW and SASE and SSE. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Cisco vs Juniper Networks: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
CiscoCisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data.cisco.comJuniper NetworksJuniper Networks sells firewalls in physical, virtual and containerized forms, managed in a unified experience.juniper.net
What it sells
  • Cisco HypershieldA security architecture for data centers that segments workloads and closes exploit gaps at scale.
  • Cisco Secure AccessA 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.
  • SRX Series Firewalls[1]A line of hardware, container and virtual next-generation firewalls, spanning branch to data center and service provider deployments.
  • SASE[1]A secure access service edge product unifying secure SD-WAN, cloud-native SSE and network access control at each connection point.
  • Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)A product that uses analytics and threat intelligence to detect and block known and unknown attacks across networks, users and devices.
  • Secure Connect[1]A cloud-managed zero trust remote access product for connecting users to applications and data.
Categories
Headquarters
San Jose, United States[3][13]Not stated on its pages
Founded
1984[4]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Public (NASDAQ: CSCO)[1][2][10][12][13]Owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2025[1][3][4][5]
Named customers
  • Marriott[5]
  • United States Golf Association[6]
  • Rosen Hotels & Resorts[7]
  • Elon University[8]
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
  • August 12, 2026Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026.[2]
  • May 13, 2026Cisco reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $15.8 billion for the period ended April 25, 2026.[9]
  • May 4, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a non-human identity security company, and completed the acquisition on June 29, 2026.[10]
  • April 9, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Galileo Technologies, Inc.[11]
  • November 25, 2025Cisco completed its acquisition of EzDubs, a privately held AI software company based in San Francisco.[13]
Not stated on its pages
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 5, 2026[12]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[5]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
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.From its own pages, Juniper Networks sells mainly to enterprises and service providers that need network security. Its firewall range is described for branch and small enterprise locations, midsize enterprises and data center edges, and large enterprises and service providers. Container and virtual firewalls are described for cloud and edge environments, including private, public and hybrid cloud.
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October 10, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Firewalls and NGFW is the primary category of both Cisco and Juniper Networks; both are also filed under SASE and SSE.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Cisco is also filed under Network access control and SIEM. Juniper Networks is also filed under Zero trust network access.
  • Cisco lists Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Juniper Networks lists SRX Series Firewalls, SASE, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and Secure Connect.
  • Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
  • Cisco was founded in 1984.
  • Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Juniper Networks is owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, since 2025.
  • Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Cisco and Juniper Networks under Firewalls and NGFW as the primary category, and both also appear under SASE and SSE. Cisco is additionally filed under Network access control and SIEM, while Juniper Networks is additionally filed under Zero trust network access. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States, and is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Juniper Networks has been owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2025.

Cisco sells Cisco Hypershield for data center segmentation, Cisco Secure Access as a SASE product, Cisco Duo for identity security, and Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for network access control. It also sells Splunk Enterprise Security, a SIEM product, and Cisco Talos, a threat intelligence and research organization. Juniper Networks sells SRX Series Firewalls in hardware, container and virtual forms, along with a SASE product that unifies secure SD-WAN, cloud-native SSE and network access control. Its other products are Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and Secure Connect, a cloud-managed zero trust remote access product. The overlap is in firewalls and SASE, while Cisco's range extends into SIEM and identity security and Juniper Networks' range centers on network security for enterprises and service providers.

Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University as customers. Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a non-human identity security company, on May 4, 2026, and completed the acquisition on June 29, 2026. On August 12, 2026, Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion.

Questions about Cisco and Juniper Networks

What do Cisco and Juniper Networks sell?
Cisco sells Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Juniper Networks sells SRX Series Firewalls, SASE, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and Secure Connect.
Are Cisco and Juniper Networks in the same category?
Yes. Firewalls and NGFW is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Cisco and Juniper Networks headquartered?
Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When were Cisco and Juniper Networks founded?
Cisco was founded in 1984.
Who owns Cisco and Juniper Networks?
Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Juniper Networks is owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, since 2025.
Which customers do Cisco and Juniper Networks name?
Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.
Who are Cisco and Juniper Networks sold to?
From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. From its own pages, Juniper Networks sells mainly to enterprises and service providers that need network security.
What have Cisco and Juniper Networks announced recently?
August 12, 2026: Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026.

About Cisco

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.

Cisco on the record

Sources

Cisco full record

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

Juniper Networks full record

  1. [1]HPE Networking security: AI-native security for modern networks | HPEHPE / Juniper Networks · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]juniper.netJuniper Networks · juniper.net · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Hewlett packard enterprise closes acquisition of juniper networks to offer industry leading comprehensive cloud native ai driven portfolioHewlett Packard Enterprise · hpe.com · published July 2, 2025 · Tier A
  4. [4]Juniper Services Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]Juniper Networks Security Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier C

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