Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual - Base License Subscription
This 3-year Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual base license subscription provides essential security capabilities for your virtualized network environment.
- Access to Core Security Features: Unlock foundational threat prevention, intrusion prevention, and application visibility for your virtual network.
- Subscription Term: Enjoy continuous security updates and support for a defined 3-year period, ensuring your defenses remain current.
- Platform Licensing: This license applies to Cisco's virtual security appliance, enabling protection within your virtualized infrastructure.
- Compliance and Operation: Maintain regulatory compliance and ensure uninterrupted network operation with up-to-date security policies and threat intelligence.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 3-year subscription license for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual (FTDV). It unlocks core security features and capabilities for virtualized network environments, providing essential threat prevention, intrusion prevention, and application control.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this license integrates into existing virtual infrastructure, such as VMware or KVM, to extend enterprise-grade security without the need for dedicated physical appliances.
- Essential Threat Prevention: Gain visibility and control over network traffic with intrusion prevention and application awareness.
- Virtual Deployment: Secure your virtualized infrastructure, including private clouds and virtual data centers.
- Subscription-Based Security: Benefit from continuous updates for threat intelligence and software features throughout the 3-year term.
- Simplified Management: Integrate with Cisco security management platforms for centralized policy control.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements with robust security controls and logging capabilities.
This Cisco FTDV license provides essential security for virtual environments, offering a cost-effective way for SMB and mid-market teams to enhance their threat defense posture.
What This Enables
Enable Foundational Network Security
Enable teams to deploy essential threat prevention capabilities within their virtualized network infrastructure. Streamline the process of securing virtual machines and inter-VM traffic with core security policies.
virtualized data centers, private cloud deployments, server consolidation projects, network segmentation initiatives
Enhance Application Visibility and Control
Streamline the identification and control of applications running across the virtual network. Automate the enforcement of policies based on application type, user, and content to reduce risk.
application-aware security policies, user-based access control, compliance reporting, network traffic management
Maintain Security Compliance
Automate the enforcement of security policies to meet regulatory compliance mandates for data protection and network security. Ensure continuous monitoring and logging for audit purposes within virtual environments.
PCI DSS compliance, HIPAA security rules, GDPR data protection, internal security standards
Key Features
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Detect and block known and unknown threats in real-time to prevent network intrusions and data breaches.
Application Visibility and Control (AVC)
Identify and control thousands of applications to prioritize business-critical traffic and block unwanted applications.
URL Filtering
Block access to malicious or inappropriate websites to protect users from phishing and malware.
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)
Detect, block, and remediate advanced malware threats before they impact your network.
Virtual Appliance Deployment
Deploy robust security directly within your virtualized infrastructure, reducing hardware costs and simplifying management.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security controls to protect sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, making advanced threat defense in virtual environments critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect patient health information (PHI) and adhere to HIPAA regulations, necessitating robust security solutions that can secure virtualized EMR/EHR systems and medical devices.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers increasingly rely on IT and OT convergence within virtual environments, requiring security solutions that can protect both operational technology and information technology from cyber threats.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client data and must maintain strict data privacy and security standards to prevent breaches and maintain client trust.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual?
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual (FTDV) is a virtual appliance that provides integrated security services for virtualized environments. It offers next-generation firewall capabilities, intrusion prevention, and advanced threat defense.
What does a base license subscription include?
A base license subscription typically includes the core software functionalities of the platform, such as firewalling, intrusion prevention, and application visibility. It also includes access to software updates and threat intelligence feeds for the duration of the subscription term.
What hardware or platform does this license apply to?
This license is for the virtualized version of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense. It is designed to be deployed as a virtual machine on common hypervisors like VMware vSphere, KVM, or Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS).
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.