Cisco Firepower 8360 URL Subscription License
The Cisco Firepower 8360 URL license unlocks advanced web security capabilities, providing essential threat protection for your business network.
- URL Filtering: Access granular control over website access, blocking malicious or unproductive sites.
- Threat Intelligence: Coverage for real-time updates on emerging web threats and malware.
- Compliance Assurance: Protection against regulatory non-compliance due to unmonitored web traffic.
- Entitlement to Advanced Security: Unlock enhanced security features for your Cisco Firepower platform.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software subscription license for Cisco Firepower 8360, enabling advanced URL filtering and web security features. It provides continuous access to updated threat intelligence and security policies, ensuring your network is protected against evolving web-based threats.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to enhance their existing Cisco Firepower security infrastructure. It integrates directly with the hardware appliance to provide a critical layer of defense for user web activity.
- Enhanced Web Security: Provides robust URL filtering to block access to malicious websites and enforce acceptable use policies.
- Real-time Threat Updates: Ensures continuous protection against the latest web-based threats through dynamic intelligence feeds.
- Policy Enforcement: Enables granular control over user web access based on categories, reputation, and custom rules.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamlines security management by centralizing web threat defense within the Firepower platform.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory requirements by monitoring and controlling internet access.
This Cisco URL license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to strengthen their web security posture and protect against online threats.
What This Enables
Enable granular control over web access
Enable teams to define and enforce policies for website access, blocking categories of sites or specific URLs. This ensures users only access approved and safe online resources, improving productivity and security.
organizations with remote workers, businesses managing BYOD policies, teams requiring content filtering for compliance
Streamline protection against web threats
Streamline the defense against malware, phishing, and other web-based threats through real-time intelligence updates. This license ensures the Firepower platform is always aware of and protected against the latest online dangers.
businesses with high internet usage, companies handling sensitive data, environments with a need for proactive threat mitigation
Automate security policy updates
Automate the process of updating security policies and threat intelligence feeds, reducing manual intervention and ensuring consistent protection. This keeps the web security posture current without constant IT oversight.
IT departments with limited staff, organizations prioritizing operational efficiency, networks requiring continuous security posture management
Key Features
URL Filtering Database
Provides up-to-date categorization of billions of URLs to block access to malicious, inappropriate, or unproductive websites.
Real-time Threat Intelligence Feeds
Continuously receives updated information on emerging threats, ensuring the security platform can defend against the latest attacks.
Customizable Policy Creation
Allows IT administrators to create specific rules and exceptions based on user groups, time of day, or URL categories.
Integration with Firepower Platform
Seamlessly integrates with the Cisco Firepower 8360 appliance for unified security management and policy enforcement.
Subscription-based Model
Ensures continuous access to the latest features and threat intelligence without large upfront capital expenditures.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, making advanced URL filtering essential for blocking fraudulent sites and malware.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating strong security measures to prevent data breaches and protect patient information from web-based threats.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client information and must maintain strict data security and client trust, making protection against phishing and malware critical.
Education & Research
Educational institutions often have large user bases and need to control access to appropriate content while protecting students and staff from online threats and ensuring compliance with CIPA.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Cisco Firepower URL license?
A Cisco Firepower URL license is a subscription that enables advanced URL filtering and web security capabilities on your Cisco Firepower 8360 appliance. It provides access to updated threat intelligence and allows for granular control over web access.
What kind of threats does this license help protect against?
This license helps protect against a wide range of web-based threats, including malware, phishing attacks, ransomware, and access to malicious websites. It also aids in blocking access to unproductive or policy-violating content.
How long is the license term?
This is a subscription license, meaning it is valid for a defined term, typically one or more years. Continued access to features and threat intelligence requires renewal of the subscription.
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.