Cisco Bot Manager Managed Service
The Cisco Bot Manager Managed Service provides dedicated, expert management of your bot traffic, ensuring continuous protection and operational efficiency for your network infrastructure.
- Expert Management: Dedicated oversight of bot traffic and security policies by certified Cisco professionals.
- Continuous Protection: Proactive monitoring and response to evolving bot threats, safeguarding your network.
- Operational Efficiency: Offload complex bot management tasks, freeing up internal IT resources for strategic initiatives.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain adherence to regulatory requirements through consistent and effective bot control.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a managed service for Cisco's Bot Manager platform, delivering expert oversight and operational support for bot traffic management and security. It ensures your network is protected against malicious bots while allowing legitimate automated traffic to flow unimpeded.
This service is designed for businesses that rely on their IT infrastructure for daily operations and need to manage the complexities of bot traffic. It fits into environments with existing Cisco security solutions or those looking to implement advanced bot mitigation strategies without the overhead of in-house expertise.
- Managed Bot Traffic: Expert configuration and ongoing management of Cisco Bot Manager to control and analyze bot activity.
- Threat Mitigation: Proactive identification and blocking of malicious bots, preventing service disruptions and data breaches.
- Performance Optimization: Ensuring legitimate automated traffic, such as search engine crawlers, is not impacted.
- Policy Enforcement: Consistent application of security policies to manage bot behavior across your digital assets.
- Reporting and Insights: Regular updates and detailed reports on bot activity, security posture, and service performance.
This managed service is the ideal solution for SMB and mid-market teams seeking enterprise-grade bot management without the associated complexity and resource demands.
What This Enables
Enable teams to protect web applications from bots
Enable teams to deploy and manage advanced bot detection and mitigation policies across their web applications and APIs. Streamline the process of identifying and blocking malicious bot traffic, ensuring service availability and data integrity.
web application security, API protection, threat mitigation, automated traffic management, network security operations
Automate bot traffic analysis and reporting
Automate the analysis of bot traffic patterns and generate actionable insights for security and operations teams. Streamline reporting to stakeholders on bot activity, security posture, and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.
security operations center (SOC), IT analytics, compliance reporting, network monitoring, threat intelligence
Ensure compliance with bot management regulations
Ensure organizations meet regulatory requirements for data protection and online service availability by maintaining strict control over bot activity. Maintain continuous compliance through expert management of bot policies and threat responses.
regulatory compliance, data privacy, service level agreements (SLAs), risk management, cybersecurity governance
Key Features
Managed Bot Traffic Analysis
Gain deep insights into bot activity on your network, enabling informed security decisions and operational adjustments.
Proactive Threat Mitigation
Receive continuous protection against evolving bot threats, minimizing the risk of service disruptions and data breaches.
Policy Configuration and Tuning
Benefit from expert configuration and ongoing tuning of bot management policies to match your specific business needs and risk profile.
24/7 Monitoring and Response
Ensure constant vigilance over your network's bot traffic, with rapid response to any detected threats or anomalies.
Regular Performance Reporting
Stay informed about your security posture and bot management effectiveness through detailed and regular performance reports.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust protection against bots that attempt fraudulent transactions, credential stuffing, and data exfiltration to maintain customer trust and comply with strict financial regulations.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses need to prevent bots from impacting online sales, inventory management, and customer service platforms, ensuring a positive customer experience and preventing scalping or ticket fraud.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data from bots involved in breaches and ensure the availability of critical online services for appointments and information access, adhering to HIPAA and other privacy laws.
E-commerce & Online Services
Businesses heavily reliant on online platforms need to defend against bots that disrupt user access, compromise account security, and negatively affect conversion rates, ensuring business continuity and revenue protection.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Bot Manager Managed Service?
It is a subscription-based service where Cisco experts manage your Bot Manager platform to protect your web applications and APIs from malicious bots. This includes monitoring, policy management, and threat response.
Who is this service intended for?
This service is designed for SMB and mid-market businesses that use IT for their own operations and need expert management of bot traffic to ensure security and availability without the overhead of specialized in-house staff.
What kind of bots does this service manage?
The service focuses on managing malicious bots that can harm your business, such as credential stuffing bots, scraping bots, and denial-of-service bots, while ensuring legitimate automated traffic, like search engine crawlers, is unaffected.
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.