Cisco Bot Manager Managed Service
The Cisco Bot Manager Managed Service provides essential visibility and control over bot traffic, ensuring your network operates securely and efficiently.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access to 24/7 monitoring of bot activity across your network infrastructure.
- Automated Threat Mitigation: Coverage for automated responses to detected bot threats, reducing manual intervention.
- Enhanced Network Visibility: Protection against sophisticated botnets and malicious automated traffic that can disrupt operations.
- Compliance Support: Entitlement to detailed reporting and analytics that aid in meeting regulatory compliance requirements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a managed service for Cisco's Bot Manager platform, designed to detect, analyze, and mitigate bot traffic impacting business networks. It delivers continuous monitoring and automated response capabilities to safeguard against automated threats.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this service to gain control over bot activity without the need for extensive in-house expertise. It integrates with existing network infrastructure to provide a layer of security and operational stability.
- Bot Traffic Detection: Identifies and categorizes various types of bot traffic, including malicious, scraping, and unauthorized bots.
- Automated Mitigation: Implements predefined or custom policies to block or challenge suspicious bot activity in real-time.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Leverages Cisco's threat intelligence to stay ahead of emerging bot threats and attack vectors.
- Performance Optimization: Helps ensure legitimate user traffic is prioritized by mitigating resource-draining bot activity.
- Reporting and Analytics: Provides insights into bot traffic patterns, security incidents, and mitigation effectiveness.
This managed service is ideal for businesses seeking to proactively manage bot threats and maintain optimal network performance without significant internal resource investment.
What This Enables
Enable Teams to Detect and Mitigate Bot Traffic
Enable teams to gain granular visibility into bot traffic impacting their network. Streamline the process of identifying and responding to malicious automated activity to prevent service disruptions.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises servers, hybrid cloud environments, distributed network infrastructure
Automate Bot Threat Response
Automate the detection and blocking of known and emerging bot threats to protect sensitive data and critical business functions. Reduce the manual effort required to manage bot security policies and incident response.
web application security, API protection, content scraping prevention, credential stuffing defense
Streamline Network Performance Monitoring
Streamline network performance by identifying and mitigating bot traffic that consumes bandwidth and server resources. Ensure legitimate user traffic receives priority and maintain a consistent user experience.
high-traffic websites, e-commerce platforms, online service portals, customer-facing applications
Key Features
Bot Traffic Detection and Classification
Identifies and categorizes various bot types, allowing for targeted mitigation strategies.
Automated Mitigation Policies
Enables real-time blocking or challenging of suspicious bot activity, reducing manual intervention.
Cisco Threat Intelligence Integration
Leverages up-to-date threat data to proactively defend against evolving bot threats.
Network Resource Optimization
Frees up bandwidth and server resources by mitigating non-essential bot traffic.
Detailed Reporting and Analytics
Provides insights into bot activity and security posture for informed decision-making and compliance.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security to protect sensitive customer data and prevent fraudulent activities, making bot management crucial for compliance and operational integrity.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses face significant bot threats like inventory scraping and scalping, which can impact sales and customer experience, necessitating effective bot mitigation.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must safeguard patient data and ensure the availability of critical services, making them targets for bots that could disrupt operations or compromise sensitive information.
E-commerce Platforms
E-commerce businesses rely heavily on website availability and performance; bot traffic can degrade user experience, impact sales, and lead to account fraud, requiring dedicated bot management.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Bot Manager Managed Service?
It is a service where experts manage Cisco's Bot Manager platform for your business. This includes monitoring bot traffic, analyzing threats, and implementing mitigation strategies to protect your network.
Who is this service for?
This service is designed for SMB and mid-market companies that use IT for their own operations and need to protect their networks from bot traffic. This includes IT Managers and IT Professionals.
What kind of bot traffic does it cover?
It covers a wide range of bot traffic, including malicious bots, web scrapers, credential stuffing bots, and other automated threats that can impact network performance and security.
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.