Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual URL Filtering Subscription
This Cisco Firepower Threat Defense virtual appliance subscription provides essential URL filtering and threat intelligence for your business network, ensuring continuous protection against web-based threats.
- URL Filtering: Coverage for granular control over web access, blocking malicious and inappropriate sites to protect users and data.
- Threat Intelligence: Entitlement to real-time updates on emerging threats, ensuring your defenses are always current against new attack vectors.
- Virtual Deployment: Protection against the risks of unpatched vulnerabilities and outdated security policies by enabling advanced virtual security.
- Subscription Term: Access to ongoing software updates and support for the licensed duration, guaranteeing continued operational security and feature enhancements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual (FTD-V) license unlocks advanced URL filtering and threat defense capabilities for virtualized environments. It provides a subscription for 1,000 users, enabling robust web security policies and high availability configurations.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this license to secure their virtual infrastructure, including hypervisors like VMware or KVM. It integrates into existing virtual networks to provide essential security controls without requiring dedicated physical appliances.
- Advanced URL Filtering: Block access to known malicious websites, phishing sites, and categories of content deemed inappropriate for your business.
- High Availability (HA): Supports redundant deployments to ensure continuous threat protection even during hardware or software failures.
- Virtual Appliance: Deployable on major hypervisors, offering flexibility and cost savings compared to physical hardware.
- Threat Intelligence Feed: Integrates with Cisco's Talos threat intelligence for up-to-date protection against evolving web threats.
- Subscription-Based: Provides access to software updates, security intelligence, and support for the duration of the subscription term.
This Cisco subscription is ideal for businesses seeking to enhance their virtual network security with advanced web filtering and threat prevention capabilities.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Web Threat Protection
Enable teams to block access to malicious websites, phishing attempts, and unwanted content categories. Streamline security policy enforcement across your virtual network to reduce exposure to web-based attacks.
virtualized environments, cloud deployments, hypervisor-based infrastructure, network security consolidation
Ensure High Availability Security
Support organizations deploying critical applications in virtualized environments that require continuous security uptime. Automate failover processes to maintain threat protection even during system maintenance or unexpected outages.
business continuity planning, redundant network architectures, virtual data centers, mission-critical application hosting
Streamline URL Filtering Management
Streamline the process of defining and enforcing web access policies for up to 1,000 users. Automate the categorization and blocking of web content to maintain productivity and compliance with acceptable use policies.
policy enforcement, user access control, content filtering, network segmentation
Key Features
URL Filtering
Blocks access to malicious and inappropriate websites, protecting users and preventing malware infections.
High Availability (HA) Support
Ensures continuous network security and threat protection even if one virtual appliance fails.
Virtual Appliance Deployment
Offers flexible deployment on major hypervisors, reducing hardware costs and simplifying integration.
Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence
Provides up-to-date protection against the latest web threats and vulnerabilities.
Subscription Licensing
Grants access to software updates, security intelligence, and support for the licensed term.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, making advanced URL filtering essential for preventing fraud and data breaches.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict compliance mandates such as HIPAA, necessitating secure network access and protection against threats that could compromise patient privacy and medical records.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client information and must maintain strict data security and confidentiality, making advanced threat defense critical to prevent breaches and maintain trust.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial control systems and operational technology environments are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks; securing the network perimeter with advanced threat defense is vital to prevent operational disruption and protect sensitive intellectual property.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual?
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual (FTD-V) is a virtual appliance that provides advanced threat defense capabilities, including intrusion prevention, malware defense, and URL filtering, for virtualized environments.
What does the URL Filtering license enable?
The URL Filtering license enables granular control over web access by allowing you to block or allow traffic based on website categories, reputation, and specific URLs, protecting your users from malicious sites and enforcing acceptable use policies.
How is this license billed?
This license is billed on a subscription basis, providing access to the software, updates, and threat intelligence for the duration of the subscription term.
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.