Cisco Email Threat Defense
Cisco Email Threat Defense provides advanced protection against sophisticated email-borne threats, ensuring your business communications remain secure and operational.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Coverage against phishing, malware, and business email compromise attacks.
- Continuous Protection: Entitlement to ongoing updates and threat intelligence for evolving cyber risks.
- Email Security Assurance: Protection against data loss and reputational damage from compromised email.
- Compliance Support: Access to features that help meet regulatory requirements for data security.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Email Threat Defense license provides advanced security capabilities to protect your organization's email infrastructure from a wide range of threats. It enables enhanced detection of phishing, malware, and business email compromise attacks, ensuring the integrity of your daily communications.
Designed for businesses of all sizes, this subscription is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals seeking to fortify their email security posture. It integrates with existing email platforms to provide a critical layer of defense against cyber threats that target end-users.
- Enhanced Threat Intelligence: Access to real-time threat data to proactively block malicious emails.
- Phishing and Malware Prevention: Automated detection and removal of dangerous email content.
- Business Email Compromise Defense: Protection against impersonation and financial fraud attempts.
- Policy Enforcement: Ability to configure and enforce email security policies across the organization.
- Reporting and Analytics: Insights into email traffic and security events for better management.
This Cisco license offers essential email security for SMB and mid-market teams, delivering enterprise-grade threat protection without the complexity.
What This Enables
Enable advanced phishing and malware detection
Enable teams to automatically identify and block sophisticated phishing attempts and malware delivered via email. Streamline the process of securing email channels against common and advanced threats.
cloud-hosted email, on-premises email servers, hybrid email environments, business continuity planning
Defend against business email compromise
Automate the defense against business email compromise (BEC) attacks that aim to impersonate executives or partners for financial fraud. Protect your organization from costly financial losses and reputational damage.
financial transaction workflows, executive communication channels, vendor payment processes, inter-departmental communication
Enhance email security policy enforcement
Streamline the enforcement of granular email security policies across your organization. Automate the application of security rules to ensure compliance and consistent protection for all users.
regulatory compliance requirements, internal security standards, user access controls, data governance policies
Key Features
Advanced Threat Intelligence Feeds
Proactively block known and emerging threats with up-to-date global threat intelligence.
Machine Learning-based Detection
Identify sophisticated and zero-day threats that traditional signature-based methods miss.
URL and Attachment Sandboxing
Safely analyze suspicious links and attachments in a controlled environment to detect malicious content.
Email Spoofing and Impersonation Protection
Prevent attackers from impersonating executives or trusted contacts to trick employees.
Policy Management and Reporting
Easily configure security policies and gain insights into email security performance and threats.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust protection against sophisticated email fraud and data breaches to maintain customer trust and comply with strict financial regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data (PHI) from email-borne threats to comply with HIPAA regulations and prevent breaches that carry severe penalties.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information, making them prime targets for attacks aimed at data theft or disruption, necessitating strong email security to maintain client privilege and compliance.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies are often targeted by nation-state actors and cybercriminals, requiring advanced threat defense to protect sensitive data, critical infrastructure information, and maintain public trust.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of email threats does this license protect against?
This license provides protection against a wide range of email threats, including phishing, malware, ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), spam, and spoofing.
How is this license billed?
This is a subscription-based license, billed on a recurring basis, typically annually or monthly, depending on the contract terms.
Does this license require specific hardware?
This is a software license and typically applies to Cisco's cloud-based email security platform or software deployed on your existing infrastructure. Specific hardware dependencies, if any, would be detailed in the product documentation.
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.