Cisco Bot Manager 20M Subscription
The Cisco Bot Manager 20M yearly subscription provides essential protection and visibility against bot threats for your organization's network infrastructure.
- License Term: Annual subscription ensures continuous access to bot management features and updates.
- Capacity: Covers up to 20 million bot requests per year, suitable for mid-sized to large business environments.
- Feature Access: Unlocks advanced capabilities for bot detection, mitigation, and traffic analysis.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory requirements by providing tools to manage and report on bot traffic.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a yearly subscription license for Cisco Bot Manager, a platform designed to detect, analyze, and mitigate malicious bot traffic. It provides critical visibility into automated threats that can impact network performance, security, and business operations.
IT Managers and Security Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this license to protect their own networks and applications. It integrates into existing network infrastructure, offering a dedicated solution for managing bot activity without requiring extensive hardware investments.
- Bot Detection: Identifies and categorizes various types of bots, including malicious, benign, and unknown.
- Traffic Analysis: Provides insights into bot traffic patterns, origins, and impact on network resources.
- Mitigation Tools: Enables proactive blocking or rate-limiting of unwanted bot traffic to protect services.
- Reporting & Visibility: Offers dashboards and reports for monitoring bot activity and security posture.
- Subscription Model: Annual billing provides predictable costs and continuous access to the latest software updates and threat intelligence.
Secure your digital assets and maintain optimal network performance with this essential bot management subscription, designed for businesses seeking enterprise-grade protection without the overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Bot Traffic Visibility and Control
Enable teams to gain clear insights into the volume and nature of bot traffic hitting their applications and network. Streamline the process of identifying and categorizing bots to differentiate between legitimate and malicious activity.
web applications, API gateways, network infrastructure, security operations, traffic management
Automate Bot Threat Mitigation
Automate the response to detected bot threats by implementing predefined mitigation policies. Protect critical business services from being overwhelmed or compromised by malicious bot activity.
security incident response, application availability, network protection, threat containment, automated defense
Enhance Network Security Posture
Enhance the overall security posture by proactively addressing bot-related vulnerabilities and attack vectors. Maintain compliance with security standards by demonstrating control over automated traffic.
cybersecurity strategy, risk management, compliance reporting, threat intelligence, security operations center
Key Features
Bot Detection and Classification
Accurately identify and categorize bot traffic, allowing for targeted mitigation strategies and better understanding of threats.
Real-time Traffic Analysis
Gain immediate insights into bot activity patterns, origins, and impact, enabling faster response to emerging threats.
Automated Mitigation Policies
Proactively block or manage unwanted bot traffic, protecting applications and services from disruption and abuse.
Subscription-based Licensing
Ensure continuous access to the latest software updates, threat intelligence, and support for predictable operational costs.
Centralized Management Dashboard
Monitor and manage bot traffic effectively through an intuitive interface, simplifying security operations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust protection against bots used for fraud, credential stuffing, and data scraping to maintain customer trust and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses need to prevent bots from impacting e-commerce operations, scalping tickets, or disrupting customer-facing services, ensuring fair access and a positive customer experience.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data and ensure the availability of critical services, making them targets for bots involved in data breaches or service disruption, necessitating compliance with HIPAA.
Education & Research
Educational institutions need to secure student data, manage network resources efficiently, and prevent bots from disrupting online learning platforms or research systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Bot Manager?
Cisco Bot Manager is a software solution designed to detect, analyze, and mitigate malicious bot traffic targeting an organization's network and applications. It helps protect against threats like credential stuffing, scraping, and denial-of-service attacks.
What does the 20M capacity mean?
The 20M designation refers to the license capacity, typically indicating the maximum number of bot requests or transactions the system is licensed to manage per year. This is suitable for mid-sized to larger business environments.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This product is a yearly subscription license, meaning you pay annually for access to the software, updates, and support. This ensures you always have the latest protection against evolving bot threats.
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.