Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) WAF Subscription for 5K/4K Platforms
Secure your organization's web applications with a 5-year Cisco Application Control Engine Web Application Firewall subscription, ensuring continuous protection and compliance.
- Continuous Threat Protection: Safeguard against evolving web threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements by maintaining a secure posture for sensitive data.
- Optimized Performance: Ensure application availability and performance with advanced traffic management.
- Extended Support: Benefit from 5 years of access to software updates, security patches, and expert support.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 5-year subscription license for Cisco's Application Control Engine (ACE) Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution, designed to protect web applications from a wide range of threats. It provides advanced security features, policy enforcement, and threat intelligence to defend against attacks.
This subscription is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market organizations who manage critical web-facing applications. It integrates with existing Cisco ACE platforms to enhance security posture, prevent data breaches, and maintain compliance without requiring significant capital expenditure on new hardware.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates sophisticated web attacks, including zero-day exploits.
- Policy Enforcement: Enforces granular security policies to control application access and behavior.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet industry regulations and data privacy standards.
- Performance Optimization: Maintains application availability and responsiveness under heavy load.
- Centralized Management: Simplifies security management through a unified interface.
This Cisco WAF subscription offers mid-market businesses enterprise-grade web application security and compliance, simplifying operations and reducing risk.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Web Application Threat Protection
Enable teams to defend against a wide array of web-based attacks, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and bot mitigation. This ensures the integrity and availability of critical business applications.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises web servers, microservices architecture, API gateways
Streamline Compliance with Security Standards
Streamline efforts to meet stringent regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. The WAF provides auditable logs and enforces security policies necessary for compliance.
data-intensive operations, customer-facing portals, regulated industry deployments, secure data exchange
Automate Security Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of granular security policies across all web applications. This reduces manual configuration errors and ensures consistent protection against unauthorized access and malicious activity.
multi-application environments, distributed IT infrastructure, centralized security management, dynamic web content
Key Features
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects web applications from common and sophisticated attacks, preventing data breaches and service disruptions.
Bot Mitigation
Identifies and blocks malicious bots, safeguarding against automated attacks and protecting website integrity.
API Security
Secures APIs against common vulnerabilities, ensuring the integrity of data exchange between applications.
Customizable Security Policies
Allows fine-grained control over security rules to match specific application needs and risk profiles.
5-Year Subscription Term
Provides long-term security coverage and predictable budgeting for essential web application protection.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, which a WAF directly supports.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) and comply with HIPAA, making WAF essential for protecting patient data accessed via web applications.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers handle large volumes of customer payment data and personal information, necessitating strong security measures like WAF to prevent breaches and maintain PCI DSS compliance.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client data, requiring advanced security to prevent breaches and maintain client trust and data privacy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a security solution that monitors, filters, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web application. It protects web applications from attacks that could compromise data or functionality.
What types of threats does a WAF protect against?
A WAF protects against a wide range of threats including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and other application-layer attacks.
Is this subscription tied to specific hardware?
This subscription is for the software license and support for Cisco ACE 5K/4K platforms. It enables the WAF functionality on your existing compatible hardware.
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.