Cisco On-Demand Cloud DDoS - 12 Additional Annual Diversions
Cisco On-Demand Cloud DDoS provides essential protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks, offering 12 additional annual diversion events to ensure continuous business operations.
- Enhanced Protection: Coverage for significant DDoS attacks that exceed standard mitigation thresholds.
- Business Continuity: Ensures your critical online services remain accessible during high-volume attack events.
- Scalable Response: Provides immediate access to advanced mitigation resources when needed most.
- Cost Predictability: Offers a defined number of additional diversion events annually for budget certainty.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco On-Demand Cloud DDoS is a subscription service designed to protect businesses from sophisticated and large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This specific offering includes 12 additional annual diversion events, providing a crucial safety net for organizations that require extra capacity to handle severe or unexpected attack volumes beyond their standard mitigation capabilities.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who are responsible for maintaining the availability and performance of their organization's IT infrastructure. It integrates with existing network security postures, offering an on-demand layer of defense that activates when standard defenses are overwhelmed, ensuring critical business applications and services remain accessible.
- On-Demand Mitigation: Automatically activates advanced scrubbing centers to clean malicious traffic during an attack.
- Additional Diversions: Provides 12 pre-purchased events per year for unexpected or larger-than-usual DDoS attacks.
- Global Network: Leverages Cisco's extensive global network infrastructure for broad reach and effective mitigation.
- Rapid Response: Designed for quick activation to minimize service disruption during an attack.
- Subscription Model: Offers predictable costs for enhanced DDoS protection on an annual basis.
This Cisco DDoS protection service offers SMB and mid-market teams a reliable, scalable solution to safeguard their online presence and critical operations from disruptive cyber threats.
What This Solves
Access to Advanced DDoS Mitigation Resources
Access to Cisco's global network of scrubbing centers and specialized mitigation techniques when standard defenses are overwhelmed. This ensures your critical online services remain available during high-volume or complex attack events.
cloud-hosted applications, e-commerce platforms, critical business services, public-facing websites
Coverage for Unexpected Attack Volumes
Coverage for significant DDoS attacks that exceed your baseline mitigation capacity, providing an additional 12 diversion events annually. This safeguards your business against unforeseen and exceptionally large-scale threats.
seasonal business peaks, high-profile events, organizations with critical uptime SLAs
Protection Against Sophisticated Attack Vectors
Protection against a wide range of DDoS attack vectors, including volumetric, protocol, and application-layer threats. This ensures comprehensive defense for your internet-facing infrastructure.
web servers, API endpoints, online portals, critical infrastructure
Key Features
12 Additional Annual Diversion Events
Provides a pre-purchased capacity to handle larger or more frequent DDoS attacks beyond standard mitigation, ensuring business continuity.
Cloud-Based Mitigation
Leverages Cisco's global network infrastructure to detect and mitigate attacks, protecting your on-premises or cloud-hosted resources.
On-Demand Service Activation
Automatically or manually activates advanced scrubbing centers when an attack is detected, minimizing response time and service impact.
Broad Attack Vector Coverage
Defends against volumetric, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks, offering comprehensive protection for your internet-facing services.
Subscription-Based Pricing
Offers predictable annual costs for enhanced DDoS protection, simplifying budget management for cybersecurity investments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability for online banking, trading platforms, and customer portals to meet strict regulatory compliance and customer expectations for uninterrupted service.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure continuous access to patient portals, electronic health records (EHR), and telehealth services, where downtime can directly impact patient care and data privacy compliance like HIPAA.
Retail & Hospitality
Online retail and hospitality services depend on constant website and booking engine availability, especially during peak seasons, to drive revenue and maintain customer satisfaction.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies need to provide reliable access to public services, information portals, and critical infrastructure management systems, often facing high-profile threats and compliance mandates.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a DDoS diversion event?
A diversion event refers to an instance where traffic is rerouted to a specialized scrubbing center for cleaning during a detected DDoS attack. This service provides 12 additional such events annually beyond standard mitigation.
How does this service protect my business?
It protects your business by ensuring the availability of your critical online services during a DDoS attack. By diverting malicious traffic, it allows legitimate users to access your applications and websites.
Who is the target buyer for this service?
This service is for SMB and mid-market companies that rely on internet-facing applications and services and need an assured level of protection against disruptive DDoS attacks.
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.