Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection 5-Year Term
Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection offers a 5-year subscription term to safeguard your business network against sophisticated denial-of-service attacks, ensuring uninterrupted service availability.
- Access to Advanced Threat Intelligence: Stay ahead of emerging DDoS threats with real-time updates and expert analysis from Cisco's security research teams.
- Coverage for Critical Infrastructure: Protect your essential business applications and network services from disruptive volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks.
- Protection Against Downtime: Minimize revenue loss and reputational damage by preventing service outages caused by malicious traffic floods.
- Entitlement to Ongoing Updates: Ensure your defenses remain effective against evolving attack vectors through continuous software and signature updates.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection is a platform software license providing advanced defense mechanisms against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This 5-year term subscription unlocks critical capabilities designed to detect, mitigate, and report on malicious traffic targeting your network edge.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to ensure the availability and integrity of their internet-facing services. It integrates into existing network infrastructure to provide a vital layer of security without requiring extensive hardware investments.
- DDoS Mitigation: Automatically detects and mitigates a wide range of DDoS attack types.
- Edge Protection: Deploys at the network perimeter to stop attacks before they impact internal resources.
- Subscription Term: Provides 5 years of continuous protection and access to updates.
- Off-Box Licensing: Applies to specific Cisco security platforms, enabling enhanced DDoS defense capabilities.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: Leverages Cisco's global threat intelligence for proactive defense.
Ensure your business remains accessible and operational with Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection, providing essential defense against disruptive cyber threats for your network.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Service Availability
Enable teams to maintain uninterrupted access to critical business applications and online services. This ensures customer satisfaction and prevents revenue loss during potential attack periods.
internet-facing applications, e-commerce platforms, customer portals
Streamline DDoS Threat Management
Streamline the detection and mitigation of volumetric, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks. This reduces the burden on IT staff and minimizes response times to security incidents.
network perimeter security, security operations centers, incident response teams
Automate Network Defense
Automate the defense of your network edge against malicious traffic floods. This provides proactive protection, allowing your IT team to focus on strategic initiatives rather than reactive firefighting.
managed security services, hybrid cloud environments, distributed network architectures
Key Features
Advanced DDoS Mitigation Techniques
Protects against a wide spectrum of DDoS attacks, ensuring your network remains accessible to legitimate users.
Edge Deployment
Stops attacks at the network perimeter, preventing them from consuming internal bandwidth and impacting critical resources.
5-Year Subscription Term
Provides long-term security assurance and predictable budgeting for essential DDoS protection.
Off-Box Licensing
Enhances existing Cisco security platforms with specialized DDoS defense capabilities.
Real-time Threat Intelligence
Leverages global threat data to adapt defenses against the latest and emerging attack vectors.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require continuous availability for trading platforms, online banking, and customer portals to meet strict regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure uninterrupted access to patient records, telehealth services, and critical medical systems, adhering to HIPAA and other data privacy regulations.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses depend on online sales channels, booking systems, and customer-facing applications to operate smoothly and prevent revenue loss from service disruptions.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies need to provide reliable access to public services, citizen portals, and essential communication channels, often facing high-profile attack risks.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection?
It is a subscription license that provides advanced defense capabilities against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks at your network edge. This specific offering is for a 5-year term and is an off-box license.
Who is this product intended for?
This product is designed for businesses, particularly SMB and mid-market companies, that rely on internet-facing services and need to protect them from disruptive DDoS attacks. It is for organizations using IT for their own operations.
What kind of DDoS attacks does it protect against?
It protects against a wide range of attacks, including volumetric attacks that flood bandwidth, protocol attacks that exploit network vulnerabilities, and application-layer attacks that target specific services.
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.