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Cisco Firepower Management Center Cryptographic Modules

FIPS 140-2 certificate #2897 · Cisco Systems, Inc. · data as of 2026-08-28
Historical. Moved to historical list due to sunsetting. Federal agencies may reference historical validations for existing systems only, not for new procurement.
Caveat: When operated in FIPS mode

Certificate

Certificate number2897
StandardFIPS 140-2
Statushistorical
Overall level1
Module typeHardware
EmbodimentMulti-Chip Stand Alone
VendorCisco Systems, Inc. · website
Hardware versionsFS750-K9, FS1500-K9, FS2000-K9, FS3500-K9 and FS4000-K9
Firmware versions6.1

Module description

Firepower Management Center provides complete and unified management over firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection, easily go from managing a firewall to controlling applications to investigating and remediating malware outbreaks. You can monitor the information that your device reports, and assess and control the overall activity that occurs on your network. The FMC also controls the network management features on your devices: switching, routing, NAT and VPN.

Security level exceptions

  • Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
  • Design Assurance: Level 2
  • Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms

AlgorithmCAVP certificate
AES4266
CVL1008
DRBG1337
ECDSA995
HMAC2811
RSA2297
SHS3512
Triple-DES2307

Other algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 150 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 128 and 256 bits of encryption strength); HMAC MD5; MD5; NDRNG; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); DES; RC4

Tested configurations

  • N/A

Validation history

DateTypeLab
2017-05-04InitialGossamer Security Solutions

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: 2017-05-04

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