
Cisco DefensePro VA 10000 to 20000 Capacity Upgrade
Enhance your network security posture with a Cisco DefensePro VA capacity upgrade, increasing your protection from 10000 to 20000 units.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to expanded security capabilities.
- Capacity Expansion: Doubles the threat mitigation capacity of your existing DefensePro VA appliance.
- Feature Unlock: Enables higher throughput and more concurrent attack vectors for advanced protection.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintains adherence to security standards by supporting increased traffic volumes.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DefensePro VA license provides an upgrade for your existing security platform, increasing its capacity from 10000 to 20000 units. It ensures your network can handle higher volumes of traffic and more sophisticated threats without performance degradation.
Designed for businesses that have outgrown their current security appliance's capacity, this upgrade is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals overseeing networks with growing traffic demands. It integrates with your existing Cisco DefensePro VA hardware to provide enhanced protection.
- Increased Throughput: Supports higher volumes of network traffic for uninterrupted security.
- Enhanced Threat Mitigation: Allows for handling more concurrent attack vectors and sophisticated threats.
- Subscription Licensing: Provides flexible, ongoing access to security features and updates.
- Platform Scalability: Enables your existing hardware to meet evolving security needs.
- Operational Continuity: Prevents security service interruptions due to capacity limitations.
This Cisco license upgrade is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing to scale their network security without replacing their entire infrastructure.
What This Enables
Expand Threat Mitigation Capacity
Enable teams to protect against a higher volume of concurrent cyberattacks and sophisticated threats. Streamline security operations by ensuring your appliance can handle peak traffic loads without performance impact.
growing network traffic, increased cyber threat landscape, business continuity planning, performance optimization
Sustain Regulatory Compliance
Automate the process of meeting security mandates that require robust, high-capacity threat detection and mitigation. Ensure continuous compliance by maintaining adequate security processing power for your network's demands.
compliance-driven environments, data protection regulations, audit readiness, security posture management
Optimize Security Investment
Streamline the scaling of your security infrastructure by upgrading existing hardware capacity instead of purchasing new appliances. Enable your IT department to efficiently manage security resources and budget.
budget-conscious IT departments, existing hardware investments, phased infrastructure growth, resource allocation
Key Features
Capacity Upgrade (10000 to 20000 units)
Doubles the threat mitigation capacity of your existing Cisco DefensePro VA appliance, allowing it to handle significantly more traffic and attacks.
Subscription Licensing
Provides flexible, ongoing access to security features and updates, ensuring your protection remains current with evolving threats.
Enhanced Performance
Maintains high levels of network performance even under heavy load, preventing security bottlenecks.
Platform Scalability
Allows your current Cisco DefensePro VA hardware to meet increasing security demands, delaying the need for costly hardware replacements.
Advanced Threat Protection
Enables the appliance to detect and mitigate a wider range and higher volume of sophisticated cyber threats.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-capacity, always-on security to protect sensitive data and maintain transaction integrity against sophisticated cyber threats and DDoS attacks.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous availability of critical systems and patient data, necessitating robust security capable of handling high traffic volumes and regulatory compliance.
Retail & Hospitality
These sectors handle large volumes of customer transactions and data, requiring scalable security solutions to protect against attacks that could disrupt operations and damage customer trust.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies are prime targets for cyberattacks and must maintain secure, uninterrupted access to public services, demanding high-capacity defense systems to protect critical infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DefensePro VA?
Cisco DefensePro VA is a virtual appliance designed to protect networks from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and other network-based attacks. It provides real-time threat detection and mitigation.
What does this license upgrade enable?
This license upgrades the capacity of your existing Cisco DefensePro VA appliance from 10000 to 20000 units. This means it can handle double the amount of traffic and mitigate a larger volume of concurrent threats.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This is a subscription-based license, providing ongoing access to the expanded capacity and associated security features.
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.