Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual Threat Protection Subscription
This Cisco subscription provides advanced threat protection for your virtualized network environment, ensuring continuous security and compliance.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Coverage for sophisticated malware, intrusion attempts, and zero-day exploits.
- Virtual Appliance Security: Protection tailored for virtualized infrastructure and cloud deployments.
- Compliance Assurance: Entitlement to features that help meet regulatory requirements for data security.
- Continuous Updates: Access to the latest threat intelligence and software updates for ongoing defense.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Virtual Threat Protection subscription unlocks advanced security capabilities for your virtualized network infrastructure. It provides next-generation firewall features, intrusion prevention, and advanced malware protection, all delivered as a software license for virtual appliances.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this subscription integrates into existing virtual environments, such as VMware or KVM, to safeguard internal networks, cloud workloads, and remote access points.
- Next-Generation Firewall: Stateful inspection, application visibility, and user identity awareness.
- Intrusion Prevention System IPS: Detects and blocks known and unknown threats in real-time.
- Advanced Malware Protection AMP: Identifies and remediates advanced malware and ransomware.
- URL Filtering: Controls access to malicious or inappropriate websites.
- Virtual Deployment: Optimized for deployment on virtual machines and cloud platforms.
This Cisco subscription is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking enterprise-grade virtual security without the associated hardware overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Threat Detection and Prevention
Enable teams to deploy next-generation firewall capabilities, including intrusion prevention and advanced malware protection, to safeguard virtual network segments. Streamline the detection and blocking of sophisticated cyber threats targeting your business operations.
virtualized data centers, cloud-hosted applications, software-defined networks, remote workforce security
Automate Security Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of granular security policies across virtual machines and cloud workloads, ensuring consistent protection. Streamline compliance efforts by maintaining up-to-date security postures against evolving threats.
multi-cloud environments, hybrid IT infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure VDI, network segmentation
Enhance Visibility into Network Traffic
Enable IT professionals to gain deep visibility into network traffic traversing virtual interfaces, identifying applications and user activity. Support proactive threat hunting and incident response with detailed logging and reporting.
virtual appliance deployments, network monitoring tools, security information and event management SIEM integration, traffic analysis
Key Features
Next-Generation Firewall NGFW
Provides advanced threat defense, including intrusion prevention and application visibility, to protect your virtual network.
Virtual Appliance Deployment
Offers flexibility and cost savings by deploying security directly onto your existing virtual infrastructure.
Advanced Malware Protection AMP
Detects, analyzes, and blocks advanced malware and zero-day threats before they impact your business.
Intrusion Prevention System IPS
Actively identifies and prevents malicious network activity and exploits in real-time.
Subscription Licensing
Ensures access to the latest security updates, threat intelligence, and software features for continuous protection.
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 threat protection for virtual environments essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must safeguard Protected Health Information PHI and comply with HIPAA, necessitating advanced security measures for their virtualized IT infrastructure to prevent breaches.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client data, requiring strong security to prevent unauthorized access and maintain client trust, often within virtualized document management systems.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers increasingly rely on connected systems and virtualized environments for operations, requiring advanced threat protection to secure industrial control systems ICS and sensitive intellectual property.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual?
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual FTDV is a virtual appliance that delivers advanced security capabilities, including next-generation firewall, intrusion prevention, and advanced malware protection, for virtualized environments.
What does the 'CHOICE FTD VIRTUAL THREAT PRO' subscription include?
This subscription provides the software license for Cisco FTDV with advanced threat protection features. It includes ongoing access to threat intelligence, software updates, and support for the licensed term.
Can this be deployed in a cloud environment?
Yes, Cisco FTDV is designed for deployment on various virtualization platforms, including public cloud environments like AWS and Azure, as well as private clouds and on-premises virtualized data centers.
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.