Cisco Systems 2504, 7500, 8510 Wireless LAN Controllers and Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL Switch with Wireless Services Module-2 (WiSM2)

Certificate

Module description

The Cisco Flex 7500 and the 8500 Series Controllers are highly scalable branch controllers for enterprise, service provider and multisite wireless deployments. The Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controller are used in small to medium-sized enterprises and branch offices. The Cisco Wireless Service Module-2 (WiSM2) Controller for Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches, is a highly scalable and flexible platform that enables systemwide services for mission-critical wireless networking in medium-sized to large enterprises and campus environments.

Security level exceptions

• Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 2
• Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms

Other algorithms

AES (Cert. #2894, key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 128 bits of encryption strength); Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); HMAC-MD5; MD5; NDRNG; RC4; Triple-DES (non-compliant)

Tested configurations

• N/A

Validation history

Status timeline

As observed by this tracker's snapshots. NIST publishes no dates for list moves; observation began 2026-08-21, so earlier changes carry no date.

• 2026-08-21: first observed by this tracker, status historical
• Validation dates on record: 2015-12-16

Source documents

• NIST certificate page
• Security policy (PDF)
• Consolidated certificate (PDF)