Cisco Firepower 4250 Next-Gen Firewall

The Cisco Firepower 4250 is a high-throughput next-generation firewall appliance engineered for large enterprise and service provider perimeter deployments where sustained performance under full threat inspection is non-negotiable. Built on Cisco's purpose-built Security Processing Unit (SPU) architecture, the 4250 offloads cryptographic operations and deep packet inspection to dedicated silicon, ensuring firewall throughput does not degrade when TLS/SSL decryption, intrusion prevention, and advanced malware protection are simultaneously enabled. The platform runs Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software, unifying stateful firewall, application visibility and control, URL filtering, IPS, and encrypted traffic analytics into a single coherent policy engine managed through Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center or on-box Firewall Device Manager.

Ideal for

• Enterprise internet edge enforcement with full TLS 1.3 inspection and advanced malware protection across 20+ Gbps sustained traffic volumes
• Data center perimeter segmentation enforcing micro-segmentation policies between internal application tiers using multi-instance deployments
• Service provider managed security services delivering tenant-isolated firewall instances from a single shared high-throughput appliance
• Encrypted traffic analytics in financial services environments where breaking all TLS sessions is restricted by compliance but behavioral threat detection remains mandatory
• High-availability perimeter clustering for healthcare and critical infrastructure operators requiring sub-second failover and zero-downtime maintenance windows
• Campus aggregation security enforcement for large universities and government networks combining application control, URL filtering, and IPS at the network core

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.