Cisco Email Security Anti-Virus Subscription
This Cisco Email Security Anti-Virus Subscription provides essential protection against malware and viruses for your business email infrastructure, ensuring secure communication channels.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Coverage for sophisticated malware and virus threats targeting email.
- Continuous Updates: Entitlement to the latest threat intelligence and signature updates.
- Platform Integration: Protection applied directly to your Cisco Email Security platform.
- Subscription Term: Access to ongoing security services for the duration of your subscription.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Email Security Anti-Virus Subscription is a software license that enhances your existing Cisco Email Security platform with advanced anti-virus and anti-malware capabilities. It provides continuous protection against a wide range of email-borne threats, ensuring that malicious content does not reach your users.
Designed for businesses of all sizes, this subscription is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals responsible for maintaining a secure and operational email environment. It integrates directly with Cisco's email security hardware or virtual appliances, acting as a critical layer of defense against evolving cyber threats.
- Enhanced Malware Protection: Actively scans inbound and outbound email for viruses, spyware, and other malicious code.
- Up-to-Date Threat Intelligence: Receives regular updates to combat emerging and zero-day threats.
- Policy Enforcement: Helps maintain compliance by preventing the transmission of infected files.
- Reduced Risk of Outages: Minimizes the impact of malware infections on business operations.
- Simplified Security Management: Integrates seamlessly with your Cisco Email Security Gateway.
This subscription offers essential, up-to-date anti-virus protection for your business email, providing peace of mind for SMB and mid-market IT teams.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Email Threat Protection
Enable teams to proactively defend against a wide spectrum of email-borne malware and viruses. Streamline the process of identifying and quarantining malicious attachments and links before they impact users.
Organizations using Cisco Email Security, Businesses requiring layered email security, Teams managing inbound/outbound email flow
Maintain Regulatory Compliance
Support compliance requirements by preventing the transmission of infected files and ensuring a secure email environment. Automate the detection and removal of threats that could lead to regulatory violations.
Businesses with data privacy mandates, Organizations handling sensitive information, Companies subject to security audits
Reduce Operational Downtime Risk
Protect critical business operations from disruptions caused by malware infections originating from email. Minimize the time and resources spent on incident response and system recovery.
Companies reliant on continuous email access, Businesses with minimal IT support staff, Operations requiring high system availability
Key Features
Real-time Anti-Virus Scanning
Detects and blocks known viruses and malware in email traffic, preventing infections before they reach end-users.
Continuous Signature Updates
Ensures protection against the latest emerging threats through regular updates of the virus definition database.
Integration with Cisco Email Security
Seamlessly enhances the security capabilities of your existing Cisco Email Security Gateway for unified management.
Subscription-based Licensing
Provides access to ongoing security updates and threat intelligence for the duration of the subscription term.
Protection against Zero-Day Threats
Helps mitigate risks from previously unknown malware through advanced heuristic analysis and behavioral detection.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security to protect sensitive customer data and maintain compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, making robust email security essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and HITECH, necessitating secure handling of Protected Health Information (PHI) transmitted via email, where malware can pose significant risks.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client information and are prime targets for phishing and malware attacks, requiring advanced email security to protect privileged communications.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial control systems and operational technology environments are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks, including those delivered via email, making email security critical for operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the term of this subscription?
This is a subscription-based license, providing ongoing access to anti-virus updates and threat intelligence for the duration specified at the time of purchase.
Does this license require specific hardware?
This license is designed to enhance the capabilities of Cisco Email Security platforms, which may include hardware appliances or virtual deployments. It activates software features on your existing Cisco Email Security solution.
How often are the anti-virus definitions updated?
The anti-virus definitions and threat intelligence are updated regularly, often multiple times a day, to ensure the most current protection against emerging threats.
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.