Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection for NCS 55/57
Enhance your network's resilience with Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection, a 5-year subscription designed to safeguard your critical infrastructure from denial-of-service attacks.
- Extended Protection: Enjoy 5 years of continuous security against evolving DDoS threats.
- Platform Specific: Tailored for Cisco NCS 55/57 platforms, ensuring optimized performance.
- Edge Security: Defends your network perimeter, preventing service disruptions.
- Subscription Value: Predictable costs with ongoing access to threat intelligence and updates.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 5-year subscription license for Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection, specifically designed to defend the network edge of Cisco NCS 55/57 series routers. It provides advanced threat intelligence and mitigation capabilities to protect against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, ensuring continuous network availability and service integrity.
This solution is ideal for businesses that operate critical network infrastructure and require robust perimeter security. IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market to enterprise environments will find this subscription essential for maintaining uptime, protecting sensitive data, and ensuring compliance with service level agreements by preventing costly disruptions.
- Advanced DDoS Mitigation: Actively detects and mitigates a wide range of DDoS attack vectors.
- Edge Deployment: Protects the network perimeter, preventing attacks from reaching internal resources.
- Platform Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Cisco NCS 55/57 series routers.
- Subscription Service: Includes ongoing threat intelligence updates and software enhancements.
- 5-Year Term: Provides long-term security assurance and budget predictability.
This Cisco subscription offers essential, long-term protection against disruptive DDoS attacks, providing peace of mind for businesses managing critical network edge infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Network Availability
Enable teams to maintain uninterrupted access to critical business applications and services. This protection prevents malicious traffic from overwhelming network resources, ensuring operational continuity.
businesses with critical online services, organizations with high-availability requirements, companies reliant on e-commerce, teams managing public-facing applications
Automate DDoS Threat Mitigation
Automate the detection and mitigation of a wide spectrum of DDoS attack vectors in real-time. This reduces the burden on IT staff and ensures rapid response to threats.
organizations with limited security staff, companies experiencing frequent or sophisticated attacks, IT departments seeking to enhance their security posture, environments requiring automated threat response
Secure Network Edge Infrastructure
Streamline the security of your network perimeter by deploying specialized DDoS protection directly at the edge. This prevents attacks from propagating into the internal network.
businesses with distributed network architectures, companies operating data centers, organizations deploying edge computing solutions, networks with significant internet ingress points
Key Features
Advanced DDoS Detection Algorithms
Identifies and neutralizes a broad range of sophisticated denial-of-service attacks before they impact legitimate traffic.
Edge-Based Mitigation
Protects the network perimeter, preventing attacks from consuming internal bandwidth and resources.
Cisco NCS 55/57 Platform Integration
Optimized performance and seamless deployment on your existing Cisco network infrastructure.
Subscription-Based Threat Intelligence
Continuous updates to threat signatures and mitigation techniques ensure protection against emerging attack vectors.
5-Year Service Term
Provides long-term security assurance and predictable budgeting for critical network protection.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require constant uptime and data integrity to prevent service disruptions and maintain customer trust, making robust DDoS protection essential for their online banking and trading platforms.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure uninterrupted access to patient data and critical medical systems, where downtime due to DDoS attacks can have severe consequences for patient care and regulatory compliance.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses in retail and hospitality rely heavily on online sales, booking systems, and customer-facing applications, all of which are vulnerable to DDoS attacks that can lead to significant revenue loss and reputational damage.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies provide essential public services online and must maintain continuous availability to citizens, making them prime targets for attacks that aim to disrupt operations and public access.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection?
It is a subscription service that provides advanced protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks specifically for the network edge of Cisco NCS 55/57 series routers. It helps ensure network availability and service continuity.
What types of DDoS attacks does this protect against?
This solution is designed to detect and mitigate a wide variety of DDoS attacks, including volumetric attacks, protocol attacks, and application-layer attacks, by analyzing traffic patterns at the network edge.
How long does the protection last?
The subscription provides protection for a term of 5 years from the date of purchase, ensuring continuous security coverage for your network edge.
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.