Cisco Secure Add-On for Alteon VA/VADC
The Cisco Secure Add-On for Alteon VA/VADC provides essential security features to protect your application delivery infrastructure for a 3-year term.
- Enhanced Security: Access advanced threat detection and mitigation capabilities to safeguard your applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements with robust security controls and logging.
- Operational Continuity: Ensure uninterrupted service availability through proactive threat prevention.
- Feature Entitlement: Unlock critical security modules for your Alteon virtual appliance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This platform software license provides the Cisco Secure Add-On for your Alteon Virtual Appliance (VA) or Virtual Application Delivery Controller (VADC). It unlocks advanced security features designed to protect your critical applications and data from evolving threats.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to bolster the security posture of their existing Alteon deployments, ensuring compliance and maintaining high availability for their business-critical services.
- Advanced Threat Protection: Integrates sophisticated security modules to defend against web application attacks.
- SSL/TLS Inspection: Enables deep packet inspection for encrypted traffic to identify and block threats.
- DDoS Mitigation: Provides protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks to ensure service availability.
- Centralized Management: Simplifies security policy enforcement and monitoring across your application delivery environment.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet industry regulations and data privacy mandates through enhanced security controls.
Secure your application delivery with the Cisco Secure Add-On, offering enterprise-grade protection without the enterprise overhead for your business.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Web Application Security
Enable teams to protect critical web applications from common and sophisticated attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Streamline the deployment of security policies to safeguard sensitive user data and maintain service integrity.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises deployments, hybrid environments, multi-tier application architectures
Strengthen Compliance Posture
Automate the enforcement of security controls required by industry regulations and data privacy laws. Ensure continuous compliance by providing detailed logging and reporting capabilities for security events.
regulated industries, data-sensitive operations, audit-heavy environments, business continuity planning
Protect Against DDoS and Bot Attacks
Support business continuity by mitigating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that can disrupt service availability. Protect against malicious bot traffic that can consume resources and compromise user experience.
high-traffic websites, e-commerce platforms, public-facing services, critical infrastructure
Key Features
Advanced Threat Detection Engine
Proactively identifies and blocks a wide range of application-layer attacks, reducing the risk of breaches and data loss.
SSL/TLS Inspection Capabilities
Provides deep visibility into encrypted traffic, allowing for the detection of threats that would otherwise go unnoticed.
DDoS Mitigation Features
Ensures application availability and performance by defending against volumetric and application-specific denial-of-service attacks.
Centralized Policy Management
Simplifies the configuration and management of security policies across multiple Alteon instances, improving operational efficiency.
Compliance Reporting Tools
Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements by providing audit-ready logs and reports on security events.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and GDPR, making advanced application security essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must safeguard protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA, necessitating strong security measures to prevent breaches and ensure data integrity.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses handle large volumes of customer payment data and personal information, requiring PCI DSS compliance and protection against e-commerce threats.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies are targets for sophisticated cyberattacks and must adhere to stringent security standards to protect critical infrastructure and citizen data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco Secure Add-On for Alteon?
The Cisco Secure Add-On is a software license that enhances the security capabilities of your Cisco Alteon Virtual Appliance (VA) or Virtual Application Delivery Controller (VADC). It provides advanced threat protection, DDoS mitigation, and SSL/TLS inspection features.
What type of billing model does this license use?
This license is a subscription-based offering, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis, typically annually or quarterly, for the duration of the license term.
Does this license apply to physical Alteon appliances?
Based on the product data, this license is specifically for Alteon Virtual Appliances (VA) and Virtual Application Delivery Controllers (VADC). It is not intended for physical hardware appliances.
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.