Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection
Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection provides essential defense against distributed denial of service attacks, ensuring your business operations remain online and accessible for a full three years.
- Continuous Protection: Access to real-time threat intelligence and automated mitigation to keep your network safe.
- Service Availability: Coverage for critical infrastructure against volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks.
- Operational Resilience: Protection against downtime and revenue loss caused by disruptive DDoS events.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory and industry requirements for network security and availability.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 3-year subscription license for Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection, a service designed to defend your network perimeter against sophisticated distributed denial of service attacks. It provides automated detection and mitigation capabilities to ensure the continuous availability of your online services and applications.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to safeguard their critical business operations from disruptive cyber threats. It integrates with existing network infrastructure to provide a vital layer of security without requiring extensive on-premises hardware.
- Automated Threat Mitigation: Detects and neutralizes DDoS attacks in real-time.
- Network Availability: Ensures your critical applications and services remain accessible to users.
- Scalable Defense: Adapts to evolving threat landscapes and attack volumes.
- Reduced Operational Burden: Minimizes manual intervention and response time for security incidents.
- Subscription-Based: Predictable costs with a 3-year term, simplifying budget management.
This Cisco subscription offers essential DDoS protection, enabling SMB and mid-market teams to maintain operational continuity and security.
What This Enables
Automated DDoS Attack Mitigation
Enable teams to automatically detect and neutralize volumetric, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks. Streamline incident response by minimizing manual intervention during critical security events.
cloud-connected applications, hybrid cloud environments, on-premises data centers, distributed workforces
Ensuring Service Availability
Support continuous operation of critical business applications and online services, preventing revenue loss and reputational damage. Maintain consistent access for customers and employees even during high-traffic periods or targeted attacks.
customer-facing portals, e-commerce platforms, internal business applications, remote access services
Meeting Compliance Requirements
Help meet regulatory and industry mandates for network security and service availability. Protect sensitive data and maintain operational integrity by adhering to security best practices.
regulated industries, data-intensive operations, businesses with strict uptime SLAs, government contractors
Key Features
Automated DDoS Detection and Mitigation
Automatically identifies and neutralizes various types of DDoS attacks, ensuring uninterrupted service availability.
Real-time Threat Intelligence
Leverages up-to-date threat data to adapt defenses against emerging attack vectors.
Scalable Protection
Adapts to varying attack sizes and complexities, providing consistent defense for your network.
Subscription-based 3-Year Term
Offers predictable budgeting and long-term security assurance with a fixed duration.
Edge Network Defense
Protects the network perimeter, preventing malicious traffic from reaching internal resources.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability for trading platforms, online banking, and customer portals, making them prime targets for DDoS attacks that this service helps mitigate.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure continuous access to patient records, telehealth services, and critical medical systems, where downtime due to DDoS attacks can have severe consequences.
Retail & Hospitality
E-commerce operations and online booking systems in retail and hospitality are vulnerable to DDoS attacks that can halt sales and disrupt customer experience, necessitating robust protection.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies provide essential public services online and must maintain service continuity, making them targets for attacks aimed at disrupting civic functions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection?
It is a subscription service from Cisco that provides automated defense against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at the network edge. This 3-year term license helps ensure your business applications and services remain available.
What types of DDoS attacks does it protect against?
This service is designed to protect against volumetric, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks, which are common methods used to disrupt online services.
Who is this service intended for?
This service is ideal for SMB and mid-market organizations that rely on their network and online services for business operations and need robust protection against cyber threats.
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.