Cisco Bot Manager 20B Platform License
The Cisco Bot Manager 20B platform license provides advanced threat detection and automated response capabilities to safeguard your business network for five years.
- Automated Threat Mitigation: Instantly identify and block malicious bot traffic, reducing the risk of data breaches and service disruptions.
- Enhanced Network Visibility: Gain deep insights into bot activity across your network, enabling proactive security posture management.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements by demonstrating robust control over unauthorized network access and data exfiltration.
- Operational Efficiency: Reduce manual intervention in threat response, freeing up IT resources to focus on strategic initiatives.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Bot Manager 20B platform license subscription unlocks advanced capabilities for detecting and mitigating bot threats across your organization's network. It provides the necessary entitlements for the Bot Manager platform to operate at scale, offering comprehensive protection against automated attacks.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this license to secure their internal networks, protect critical business applications, and ensure the availability of IT services for their employees and customers. It integrates into existing network infrastructure to provide a critical layer of defense.
- Advanced Bot Detection: Utilizes sophisticated analytics to identify and classify a wide range of bot activities, from credential stuffing to scraping.
- Automated Response Actions: Configures immediate blocking, rate limiting, or redirection of malicious traffic to prevent impact.
- Centralized Management: Provides a single pane of glass for monitoring bot threats and managing security policies across the network.
- Scalable Capacity: Designed to handle significant traffic volumes, ensuring protection for growing businesses.
- Continuous Updates: Subscription ensures access to the latest threat intelligence and software updates for ongoing protection.
This Cisco Bot Manager license is the ideal solution for businesses seeking enterprise-grade bot protection without the associated overhead, ensuring network security and operational continuity.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Bot Traffic Management
Enable teams to automatically identify and block malicious bot traffic, preventing unauthorized access and protecting sensitive data. Streamline security operations by automating threat response, reducing manual effort and potential human error.
on-premises data centers, cloud-hosted applications, hybrid cloud environments, secure network perimeters
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the detection of sophisticated botnets and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting business-critical applications. Provide IT professionals with real-time visibility into bot activity, allowing for proactive threat mitigation and policy enforcement.
enterprise resource planning systems, customer relationship management platforms, e-commerce websites, internal business applications
Ensure Regulatory Compliance
Support compliance with data protection regulations by preventing unauthorized data scraping and exfiltration by bots. Maintain audit trails of bot activity and response actions, demonstrating due diligence in security management.
financial services platforms, healthcare data systems, legal document repositories, government agency networks
Key Features
Bot Traffic Identification
Accurately distinguishes between legitimate user traffic and malicious bot activity to prevent false positives and ensure service availability.
Automated Response Policies
Allows for pre-defined actions like blocking or rate-limiting to be triggered automatically upon threat detection, minimizing impact.
Centralized Dashboard
Provides a unified view of bot threats and security status across the network, simplifying monitoring and management.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Leverages up-to-date threat feeds to recognize and defend against emerging bot threats.
Five-Year Subscription Term
Ensures continuous protection and access to software updates and support for an extended period, offering predictable budgeting.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust protection against credential stuffing, account takeover, and fraudulent transactions often perpetrated by bots, necessitating advanced threat mitigation.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses must protect customer data, prevent scalping of tickets or products, and ensure website availability during peak traffic, all of which are threatened by bot activity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must safeguard sensitive patient data (PHI) from unauthorized access and scraping, and ensure the availability of patient portals and appointment systems, making bot management critical.
E-commerce & Online Services
Businesses relying on online platforms for revenue need to prevent inventory hoarding, protect against scraping of pricing or content, and ensure a positive user experience by blocking malicious bots.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Bot Manager 20B?
Cisco Bot Manager 20B is a platform designed to detect, analyze, and mitigate automated bot traffic that can harm your network and applications. This license subscription provides the entitlement to use its advanced features.
What does the 5-year subscription cover?
The five-year subscription covers access to the Bot Manager 20B software, including all feature updates and threat intelligence feeds for the duration of the term. It ensures your protection remains current against evolving bot threats.
Who is the target audience for this license?
This license is designed for businesses of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, that use IT for their own operations and need to protect their networks from automated threats. It is ideal for organizations seeking to enhance their security posture and ensure service availability.
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.