Cisco DefensePro X90 Application Protection License
This Cisco DefensePro X90 license provides essential application protection, ensuring continuous operation and security for your critical business applications.
- Continuous Operation: Ensures your DefensePro X90 platform remains active and protected against application-layer threats.
- Feature Access: Unlocks the full suite of application protection capabilities within the DefensePro X90.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory and internal policy requirements for application security.
- Operational Stability: Guarantees ongoing support and access to necessary software updates for your security platform.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a subscription-based software license for Cisco's DefensePro X90 platform, specifically designed to provide advanced application protection. It enables continuous security monitoring and threat mitigation at the application layer, ensuring the integrity and availability of your business-critical services.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to maintain robust security posture for their networks. It integrates directly with the DefensePro X90 hardware, providing an essential layer of defense against sophisticated application-layer attacks that can disrupt operations or compromise data.
- Application-Layer Security: Defends against attacks targeting specific application vulnerabilities.
- Threat Mitigation: Actively blocks malicious traffic and prevents application downtime.
- Platform Enablement: Unlocks the full feature set of the Cisco DefensePro X90 security appliance.
- Subscription Billing: Provides predictable operational expenses with a recurring subscription model.
- Compliance Support: Aids in meeting industry regulations and security standards for application protection.
This Cisco license is the ideal solution for businesses seeking to enhance their application security without the overhead of enterprise-level security teams.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Application Threat Detection
Enable teams to detect and block sophisticated application-layer attacks targeting web servers, databases, and other critical services. This proactive defense prevents disruptions and protects sensitive business data.
Organizations deploying web applications, businesses managing customer data, teams requiring high availability for online services, companies with e-commerce platforms.
Streamline Security Policy Enforcement
Streamline the enforcement of security policies by providing granular control over application traffic. This ensures that only legitimate traffic reaches your applications, reducing the attack surface.
Businesses with strict security mandates, organizations managing multi-tier application architectures, teams needing to segment network traffic, companies with regulatory compliance needs.
Automate Threat Response
Automate the response to emerging application threats with real-time signature updates and intelligent blocking mechanisms. This minimizes manual intervention and reduces the time to mitigate security incidents.
Teams managing high-traffic networks, organizations with limited IT security staff, businesses operating 24/7 services, companies seeking to reduce alert fatigue.
Key Features
Application-Layer Threat Protection
Defends against attacks like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and buffer overflows that target application vulnerabilities.
Real-time Threat Intelligence
Provides up-to-date threat signatures and behavioral analysis to detect and block zero-day application attacks.
Subscription Licensing Model
Offers predictable operational expenses and ensures continuous access to software updates and support.
DefensePro X90 Platform Integration
Unlocks the full security capabilities of the Cisco DefensePro X90 appliance for comprehensive network defense.
Compliance and Reporting
Helps meet regulatory requirements and provides visibility into application security posture.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust application security to protect sensitive customer data and maintain compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must secure patient data (PHI) and comply with HIPAA, necessitating strong defenses against application-layer threats that could compromise records.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses handle payment card information and customer loyalty data, requiring protection against attacks that could disrupt operations or lead to data breaches.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies must protect critical infrastructure and citizen data, adhering to stringent security mandates and ensuring the availability of public services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco STD APP PROTECTION FOR DEFENSEPRO X90?
This is a subscription license for Cisco's DefensePro X90 platform that enables advanced application protection features. It ensures your applications are defended against layer 7 attacks and remain operational.
What does this license cover?
The license covers the enablement of application protection capabilities on the DefensePro X90. This includes threat detection, mitigation, and ensuring the continuous operation of the security platform.
Who is this license intended for?
This license is for businesses, specifically SMB and mid-market companies, that use the Cisco DefensePro X90 for their own network security. It is not for resellers or other IT service providers.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.