FirewallSecure Firewall 4200 Series
High-end firewalls for large enterprises, data centres, and service providers.
Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series is a high-end firewall designed for large enterprises, data centres, and service providers, with three performance models delivering up to 90 Gbps of firewall throughput. Purpose-built hardware, high-speed interfaces, and clustering handle demanding, high-throughput environments with full threat defence. Faltrox deploys, designs, and operates it as the enterprise or data-centre perimeter.
Overview
What Secure Firewall 4200 Series is
The Secure Firewall 4200 Series is Cisco’s high-end firewall line for the demanding environments of large enterprises, data centres, and service providers. It is available in three performance models (4215, 4225, 4245) delivering up to 90 Gbps of firewall throughput, with high-speed on-chassis interfaces and network-module flexibility for high-bandwidth links.
It runs Firewall Threat Defense with Snort 3 IPS, application visibility and control, URL filtering, malware defence, and the Encrypted Visibility Engine, and supports clustering for horizontal scale. Purpose-built hardware sustains high throughput with advanced threat inspection enabled, and integration with Cisco XDR and Talos ties it into the wider defence. Managed by Firewall Management Center or cloud Security Cloud Control, it anchors the enterprise or data-centre perimeter. Faltrox deploys it, designs the high-availability and clustering architecture, and operates it as managed defence.
Coverage
What it protects
The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.
Large Enterprise & Data Centre
High-end firewalling for large enterprises, data centres, and service providers.
Up to 90 Gbps
Three models deliver up to 90 Gbps of firewall throughput for high-bandwidth environments.
Next-Gen IPS
Snort 3 intrusion prevention at high throughput, with full threat defence enabled.
Encrypted Traffic
Encrypted Visibility Engine surfaces threats in encrypted flows without full decryption.
Clustering
Cluster appliances for horizontal scale in the highest-demand environments.
High-Speed Interfaces
On-chassis SFP+ and network modules provide flexible high-bandwidth connectivity.
How it works
The mechanism
How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.
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Size
Choose from three models (4215/4225/4245) up to 90 Gbps, sized to the enterprise or data-centre perimeter.
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Deploy
Run Firewall Threat Defense with high-availability pairs or clusters, managed by FMC or cloud Security Cloud Control.
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Inspect
Full threat defence — Snort 3 IPS, AVC, URL, malware, Encrypted Visibility — runs at high throughput on purpose-built hardware.
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Scale
Clustering adds horizontal capacity for the most demanding, high-bandwidth environments.
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Operate
Faltrox designs the HA and clustering architecture, maintains software, and monitors the firewalls as managed defence.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Up to 90 Gbps
Three performance models deliver up to 90 Gbps of firewall throughput for high-bandwidth needs.
Snort 3 IPS
Next-generation intrusion prevention at scale with full threat defence enabled.
Application & URL Control
Application visibility and control plus category and reputation URL filtering.
Encrypted Visibility Engine
Detects threats in encrypted traffic without the performance cost of full decryption.
Clustering
Horizontal scale through clustering for large enterprise, data centre, and service provider environments.
High-Speed Interfaces
On-chassis SFP+ and flexible network modules provide high-bandwidth connectivity.
Cisco XDR & Talos
Detections enriched by Cisco Talos intelligence and correlated across the environment via Cisco XDR.
Flexible Management
Manage via on-premises Firewall Management Center or cloud-delivered Security Cloud Control.
Works with
Part of the platform
Cisco products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.
Delivery
You buy the outcome, not the console
Managed by Faltrox
Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.
FAQ
Common questions
01Who is the 4200 Series for?
Large enterprises, data centres, and service providers that need high-throughput firewalling — up to 90 Gbps across three models — with full threat defence and clustering. It sits above the mid-range 3100 and below the ultra-high-performance 6100. Faltrox sizes it to your environment.
02Does it keep full threat inspection at high throughput?
Yes — purpose-built hardware sustains high throughput with Snort 3 IPS, application control, malware defence, and Encrypted Visibility all enabled, so you do not trade security for speed at the enterprise or data-centre perimeter.
03How does it scale beyond a single appliance?
Through clustering — multiple appliances operate as one logical firewall for horizontal scale, which is how the highest-demand environments grow capacity while keeping a single policy and management point.
04Does it integrate with the rest of a Cisco security stack?
Yes. Detections are enriched by Cisco Talos threat intelligence and correlated across endpoint, network, and cloud via Cisco XDR, and it is managed alongside the rest of the Secure Firewall estate from FMC or Security Cloud Control.
05How does Faltrox operate it?
We deploy and size the appliances, design the high-availability and clustering architecture and policy, maintain software, and monitor the firewalls — folding their detections into the SOC services we run for managed enterprise defence.
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Secure what’s next.
Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.
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