Cisco Alteon WAF Subscription for 5K/4K
This Cisco Alteon WAF subscription provides essential security and performance enhancements for your web applications, ensuring continuous protection and compliance for one year.
- Access to Advanced Security: Unlock next-generation firewall capabilities, bot mitigation, and API security to defend against sophisticated web threats.
- Coverage for Compliance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements with robust security controls and detailed logging for audit purposes.
- Protection Against Downtime: Ensure application availability and prevent service disruptions caused by denial-of-service attacks and other web-based threats.
- Entitlement to Updates: Receive regular security updates and feature enhancements to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a yearly subscription license for Cisco's Alteon Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform, designed to protect your critical web applications. It provides advanced security features, performance optimization, and compliance tools necessary to safeguard sensitive data and maintain application integrity.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this subscription integrates into existing network infrastructure, offering a vital layer of defense for web-facing services and applications.
- Enhanced Web Security: Defend against OWASP Top 10 threats, zero-day exploits, and advanced persistent threats.
- Application Performance: Optimize traffic flow and improve user experience with intelligent load balancing and caching.
- Bot Mitigation: Identify and block malicious bots, preventing scraping, credential stuffing, and other automated attacks.
- API Security: Protect your APIs from common vulnerabilities and ensure secure data exchange.
- Centralized Management: Simplify security policy enforcement and monitoring through a unified management interface.
Secure your web presence and ensure business continuity with this essential Cisco Alteon WAF subscription, tailored for the needs of growing businesses.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Web Application Security
Enable teams to deploy robust protection against common web exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Streamline the defense against zero-day threats and sophisticated bot attacks.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises servers, hybrid environments, microservices architecture
Ensure Regulatory Compliance
Streamline adherence to industry regulations such as PCI DSS and GDPR by implementing necessary security controls and logging capabilities. Automate the generation of compliance reports for audit purposes.
financial services, healthcare providers, e-commerce platforms, government contractors
Protect Against Application Downtime
Enable teams to maintain high application availability by mitigating denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Automate traffic management to ensure uninterrupted service delivery.
customer-facing portals, online transaction systems, critical business applications, high-traffic websites
Key Features
Advanced Threat Detection
Protects against a wide spectrum of web-based attacks, including zero-day exploits and botnets, reducing the risk of data breaches.
Bot Mitigation
Identifies and blocks malicious automated traffic, preventing resource exhaustion and protecting against credential stuffing and scraping.
API Security
Secures API endpoints from common vulnerabilities, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of data exchanged between applications.
Compliance Tools
Helps meet regulatory requirements through granular security controls and comprehensive logging, simplifying audit processes.
Application Performance Optimization
Improves user experience and application responsiveness through intelligent load balancing and traffic management.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, which Alteon WAF helps address.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) and comply with HIPAA, making advanced application security essential to prevent breaches and maintain patient trust.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses handle large volumes of customer data and payment information, necessitating strong security to prevent fraud and comply with PCI DSS.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies are prime targets for cyberattacks and must adhere to stringent security mandates to protect citizen data and critical infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Alteon WAF?
Cisco Alteon WAF is a Web Application Firewall that protects web applications from various cyber threats. It acts as a security layer between users and web applications, inspecting traffic and blocking malicious requests.
What does a subscription license provide?
A subscription license provides access to the WAF software features, including security updates, threat intelligence, and ongoing support for a defined period, typically one year. It ensures your security posture remains current.
What kind of threats does Alteon WAF protect against?
Alteon WAF protects against a broad range of threats including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, bot attacks, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.