Cisco Firepower Virtual Base License
This Cisco Firepower Virtual Base License provides essential security capabilities for your virtual network infrastructure, ensuring foundational protection for your business operations.
- Access to: Core security features for virtualized network environments, enabling threat defense.
- Coverage for: Virtual appliance deployments, providing essential firewall and intrusion prevention.
- Protection against: Basic network threats and policy violations within your virtualized infrastructure.
- Entitlement to: Continued access to foundational security functionalities for your virtual appliances.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Base License is a subscription-based software license designed for virtualized network environments. It unlocks core security functionalities for Cisco's virtual security appliances, providing essential threat defense capabilities.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who manage virtualized infrastructure. It integrates into existing virtual environments, offering a foundational layer of security without requiring dedicated physical hardware for every security function.
- Core Security Features: Enables essential firewall, intrusion prevention, and application visibility.
- Virtualized Environment Support: Specifically designed for deployment on Cisco's virtual security platforms.
- Subscription Billing: Provides predictable costs and access to ongoing software updates and support.
- Compliance Enablement: Helps meet basic regulatory requirements for network security and data protection.
- Scalable Protection: Offers a starting point for securing virtual networks that can be expanded with additional licenses.
This license offers SMB and mid-market teams a cost-effective way to secure their virtual networks with essential Cisco security technology.
What This Enables
Enable Foundational Network Security
Enable teams to deploy essential firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities within their virtualized network infrastructure. Streamline the process of securing virtual machines and inter-virtual network traffic.
virtualized data centers, private cloud deployments, server consolidation projects, network segmentation initiatives
Maintain Security Compliance
Streamline efforts to meet basic regulatory and compliance requirements for network security and data protection in virtual environments. Automate the enforcement of security policies across virtual appliances.
businesses with compliance mandates, organizations handling sensitive data, regulated industries, IT governance frameworks
Manage Virtual Security Subscriptions
Automate the tracking and renewal of essential security software licenses for virtual appliances, preventing service disruptions. Enable IT professionals to efficiently manage their security software portfolio.
IT departments with limited resources, businesses with growing virtual footprints, organizations seeking predictable IT spending
Key Features
Virtual Appliance Licensing
Allows deployment of Cisco's advanced security features on virtual machines, reducing hardware costs and increasing deployment flexibility.
Subscription Model
Provides predictable operational expenses and ensures access to the latest software updates and threat intelligence.
Core Security Features
Unlocks essential firewall, intrusion prevention, and application visibility to protect against a range of network threats.
Simplified Management
Offers a straightforward licensing path for virtual security deployments, easing management for IT teams.
Compliance Support
Helps organizations meet baseline security requirements for network protection and data privacy.
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 defense in virtual environments critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations for patient data privacy, necessitating strong security controls and threat prevention for their IT infrastructure, including virtualized systems.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client information and must maintain data security and integrity to meet ethical and regulatory obligations, often leveraging virtual environments.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers increasingly rely on IT and OT convergence, requiring secure virtual environments to protect operational technology systems and sensitive intellectual property from cyber threats.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Cisco Firepower Virtual Base License?
This is a subscription license that enables core security features for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense virtual appliances. It provides essential firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities for your virtualized network.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense virtual appliances, which run on common hypervisors like VMware ESXi or KVM. It does not apply to physical Cisco security hardware.
What is the term of this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is valid for a defined term, typically one year or longer, as purchased. Renewal is required to maintain access to features and support.
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.