Cisco Firepower URL Filtering License
Secure your organization's web traffic with Cisco Firepower Virtual URL Filtering, providing 5 Gbps of advanced threat defense and content control.
- Advanced Threat Defense: Coverage for sophisticated web-based threats, including malware and phishing attempts.
- Content Control: Protection against access to inappropriate or non-business-related websites.
- Performance Assurance: Entitlement to 5 Gbps throughput for URL filtering, ensuring network speed is maintained.
- Compliance Support: Access to features that help meet regulatory requirements for data privacy and acceptable use.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Firepower Virtual URL Filtering license unlocks advanced web security capabilities for your network. It enables granular control over user access to websites, filtering content based on categories and reputation to block malicious or inappropriate sites.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this subscription integrates with Cisco Firepower platforms to provide essential web security. It helps maintain a secure and productive online environment for your employees and protects sensitive company data.
- Enhanced Web Security: Actively blocks access to known malicious websites, preventing malware infections and phishing attacks.
- Granular Content Filtering: Allows administrators to define policies for website access based on categories, user identity, and time of day.
- URL Reputation Analysis: Utilizes real-time intelligence to assess the risk associated with visited URLs.
- Performance Optimization: Designed to handle up to 5 Gbps of traffic, ensuring security measures do not impede network performance.
- Subscription-Based Access: Provides continuous access to the latest URL filtering intelligence and software updates.
Empower your IT team with essential web security controls and threat intelligence to safeguard your business operations.
What This Enables
Enable granular web access control
Enable teams to enforce acceptable use policies by blocking access to specific website categories or individual URLs. Streamline policy management with centralized controls that adapt to evolving threats.
virtual appliance deployments, on-premises networks, cloud-integrated security, managed security services
Protect against web-based threats
Automate the blocking of known malicious websites, preventing malware downloads and phishing attacks that target employees. Enhance protection by leveraging real-time URL reputation intelligence.
network security infrastructure, endpoint protection integration, threat intelligence feeds, perimeter defense
Maintain network performance
Support high-volume web traffic with 5 Gbps of URL filtering capacity, ensuring security measures do not create network bottlenecks. Optimize user experience by allowing legitimate business traffic to flow unimpeded.
high-throughput environments, virtualized network functions, distributed enterprise networks, data center operations
Key Features
URL Filtering Database
Provides real-time categorization and reputation scoring for billions of URLs to block malicious and unwanted sites.
Category-Based Filtering
Allows administrators to easily block or allow entire categories of websites (e.g., social media, gambling, adult content).
5 Gbps Throughput
Ensures that web security inspections do not become a bottleneck for network performance, even in high-traffic environments.
Subscription Service
Guarantees continuous updates to the URL filtering database and access to the latest threat intelligence.
Virtual Appliance Support
Enables deployment flexibility on virtualized infrastructure, aligning with modern IT environments.
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 URL filtering essential for blocking access to phishing sites and risky web content.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy laws, necessitating strong security controls to prevent malware infections and protect patient information accessed via web browsing.
Education & Research
Educational institutions often need to restrict student access to non-educational or inappropriate content while ensuring network performance for research and learning activities.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client data and must prevent any unauthorized access or data leakage through compromised websites or employee browsing habits.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Firepower Virtual URL Filtering?
It is a subscription-based software license that enables advanced URL filtering capabilities on Cisco Firepower virtual appliances. This feature helps protect your network by controlling access to websites and blocking malicious content.
What does the 5 Gbps capacity mean?
The 5 Gbps capacity indicates the maximum rate of web traffic that the URL filtering feature can inspect and process without impacting network performance. This is suitable for many SMB and mid-market network environments.
How does this license help with compliance?
By allowing administrators to block access to inappropriate or risky websites, this license helps organizations enforce acceptable use policies and meet regulatory requirements related to data privacy and online conduct.
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.