Cisco NGIPSv for VMware Appliance
Enhance your virtual network security with the Cisco NGIPSv for VMware Appliance license, providing advanced threat prevention for your critical applications.
- Advanced Threat Prevention: Coverage for sophisticated intrusion prevention and detection capabilities within your VMware environment.
- Virtual Network Security: Protection against evolving cyber threats targeting virtualized infrastructure and applications.
- Compliance Enablement: Support for meeting regulatory and industry compliance requirements through enhanced security controls.
- Continuous Operation: Entitlement to ongoing security updates and threat intelligence to maintain network integrity.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco NGIPSv for VMware Appliance license unlocks advanced intrusion prevention and detection capabilities specifically designed for virtualized environments running on VMware.
This subscription provides businesses with enterprise-grade security features to protect their virtual machines and network traffic from advanced threats, ensuring operational continuity and compliance.
- Enhanced Threat Detection: Identify and block sophisticated attacks targeting your virtual infrastructure.
- Virtualization-Optimized Security: Tailored security policies and enforcement for VMware NSX environments.
- Centralized Management: Simplified security policy management and visibility across your virtual network.
- Compliance Assurance: Tools and reporting to help meet stringent regulatory and industry security mandates.
- Subscription-Based Access: Continuous access to the latest threat intelligence and software updates.
This license is ideal for SMB and mid-market organizations seeking to bolster their virtual network defenses without the overhead of traditional hardware deployments.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Threat Prevention in Virtual Networks
Enable teams to deploy sophisticated intrusion prevention and detection capabilities directly within their VMware virtualized infrastructure. Streamline the process of identifying and mitigating advanced threats targeting virtual machines and inter-VM traffic.
virtualized environments, network security, VMware NSX deployments, cloud-native applications
Automate Security Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of granular security policies across your virtual network, ensuring consistent protection for all workloads. Streamline compliance efforts by maintaining an auditable trail of security configurations and threat events.
multi-tier applications, microservices architectures, hybrid cloud deployments, compliance-driven IT
Enhance Visibility into Virtual Traffic
Enable IT professionals to gain deep visibility into network traffic flowing between virtual machines, identifying potential threats or policy violations. Support proactive security management by providing real-time threat intelligence and analysis.
complex network topologies, security operations centers, IT governance frameworks, data center modernization
Key Features
Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS)
Detects and prevents a wide range of sophisticated threats, including zero-day exploits, by combining signature-based, anomaly-based, and reputation-based detection methods.
Virtualization-Aware Security
Provides security tailored for virtual environments, understanding the context of virtual machines and their traffic flows for more effective protection.
Application Visibility and Control
Identifies and controls thousands of applications regardless of port, protocol, or encryption, allowing for granular policy enforcement based on application usage.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Leverages Cisco's Talos threat intelligence to stay ahead of emerging threats, ensuring your defenses are always up-to-date.
Subscription Licensing
Provides access to the latest software features, security updates, and threat intelligence feeds for the duration of the subscription term.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This vertical requires stringent security controls and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA to protect sensitive financial data and customer information within their virtualized IT infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating robust security measures to safeguard electronic health records (EHR) and patient data in virtual environments.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality groups handle large volumes of customer payment data and personal information, requiring advanced threat protection to prevent breaches and maintain PCI DSS compliance in their operational systems.
Manufacturing & Industrial
These organizations increasingly rely on virtualised systems for operational technology (OT) and IT integration, demanding strong security to protect production environments from cyber threats that could disrupt operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco NGIPSv for VMware Appliance?
Cisco NGIPSv for VMware Appliance is a software license that enables advanced intrusion prevention and detection capabilities for virtualized environments running on VMware. It acts as a virtual appliance to protect your virtual machines and network traffic.
What kind of threats does this license protect against?
This license protects against a broad spectrum of threats, including malware, exploits, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and zero-day attacks targeting your virtual infrastructure. It offers both intrusion prevention and intrusion detection.
Is this license suitable for SMBs?
Yes, this license is designed to bring enterprise-grade security to SMB and mid-market organizations, offering advanced protection for virtualized environments without the complexity of traditional hardware solutions.
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.