Cisco Firepower Virtual IPS, Apps, and URL Filtering License
Enhance your virtual network security with Cisco Firepower Virtual IPS, Apps, and URL Filtering, providing essential threat prevention for up to 1000 users.
- Access to Advanced Threat Prevention: Unlock next-generation intrusion prevention, application visibility, and URL filtering capabilities to defend against modern threats.
- Coverage for Virtual Environments: Secure your virtualized infrastructure with licenses designed for deployment on virtual machines, ensuring consistent protection.
- Protection Against Evolving Threats: Stay ahead of malware, exploits, and malicious websites with up-to-date threat intelligence integrated into the platform.
- Entitlement to Essential Security Features: Gain the necessary licenses to enable critical security functions for your organization's network operations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Firepower Virtual IPS, Apps, and URL Filtering license provides essential security capabilities for virtualized network environments. It enables advanced threat prevention, application control, and web filtering, crucial for protecting businesses from a wide range of cyber threats.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this subscription license integrates into existing virtual infrastructure, offering enterprise-grade security without the overhead of dedicated hardware appliances.
- Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention: Detect and block sophisticated threats and exploits targeting your network.
- Application Visibility and Control: Identify and manage the applications running on your network, enforcing policies for productivity and security.
- URL Filtering: Control access to websites, preventing users from visiting malicious or inappropriate content.
- Virtual Deployment: Easily deploy and manage security policies within your virtualized environment.
- Subscription-Based Licensing: Benefit from flexible, ongoing access to security updates and features through a recurring subscription model.
This Cisco subscription license is the ideal solution for SMB and mid-market organizations seeking to bolster their virtual network defenses with advanced security features.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Threat Prevention
Enable teams to deploy next-generation intrusion prevention to detect and block sophisticated threats and exploits. Streamline application visibility and control to manage network traffic effectively.
virtualized server environments, cloud-integrated networks, distributed branch offices, centralized security management
Enhance Web Security and Compliance
Streamline web security by implementing URL filtering to block access to malicious or inappropriate websites. Automate policy enforcement to meet regulatory compliance requirements and protect users.
corporate networks, remote workforce access, BYOD environments, managed security services
Gain Application Awareness
Enable teams to identify and control thousands of applications, regardless of port or protocol used. Automate the process of understanding application usage to optimize bandwidth and enforce security policies.
performance-sensitive networks, BYOD policies, regulatory compliance, user productivity monitoring
Key Features
Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS)
Detects and blocks advanced threats, exploits, and malware in real-time, protecting your network from sophisticated attacks.
Application Visibility and Control (AVC)
Provides granular control over thousands of applications, allowing you to prioritize business-critical traffic and block unwanted applications.
URL Filtering
Blocks access to malicious, inappropriate, or unproductive websites, enhancing user safety and enforcing acceptable use policies.
Virtual Appliance Deployment
Allows for flexible deployment within your existing virtual infrastructure, reducing hardware costs and simplifying management.
Subscription-Based Updates
Ensures continuous protection against emerging threats with regular updates to threat intelligence, signatures, and software features.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent security to protect sensitive financial data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which advanced threat prevention and URL filtering help address.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting patient health information (PHI) is critical, necessitating robust security measures like those offered by Firepower to comply with HIPAA and other data privacy laws.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client data, making them targets for cyberattacks. Advanced threat protection is essential to safeguard this information and maintain client trust.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Securing operational technology (OT) and IT networks is increasingly important to prevent disruptions and protect intellectual property. Virtual security solutions can integrate into existing infrastructure to provide layered defense.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Firepower Virtual IPS, Apps, and URL Filtering?
It is a software license that enables advanced security features like intrusion prevention, application control, and web filtering for Cisco's virtual security appliances.
What does the 'SMS-1000' in the product name signify?
This typically indicates the capacity or scale of the license, often related to the number of users or throughput it supports, in this case, likely up to 1000 users or a specific performance level.
Is this a one-time purchase or a subscription?
This product is a subscription-based license, meaning it requires renewal to maintain access to features, updates, and support.
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.