Cisco Security Base Platform License - Add 5 Clusters
Enhance your Cisco security posture by adding 5 clusters to your existing PS-Security-Base license, ensuring expanded protection and operational continuity.
- Expanded Capacity: Gain the ability to manage and secure 5 additional clusters within your Cisco security environment.
- Continuous Operation: Maintain uninterrupted security services and access to the latest threat intelligence updates.
- Feature Access: Unlock advanced security capabilities and configurations enabled by the platform license.
- Compliance Assurance: Support regulatory requirements and internal security policies with a properly licensed platform.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco platform license, identified by SKU COHS-PS-SEC-BSE-AD, allows for the addition of 5 clusters to the PS-Security-Base subscription. It is designed to extend the capabilities and capacity of your existing Cisco security deployment, ensuring you can manage a larger or more complex network environment effectively.
This license is intended for businesses that utilize Cisco's security solutions to protect their own internal IT infrastructure. It is suitable for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations looking to scale their security operations without the overhead of enterprise-level hardware investments.
- Scalable Security: Add capacity for 5 additional clusters to your Cisco security platform.
- Subscription-Based: Benefit from a predictable billing model with ongoing access to features and support.
- Platform Extension: Directly enhances the functionality and reach of your core Cisco security base.
- Operational Continuity: Ensures continued access to security services and updates.
- Compliance Enablement: Helps meet regulatory and policy requirements for security management.
This Cisco license is the ideal solution for SMB and mid-market teams needing to scale their security infrastructure efficiently and maintain compliance.
What This Enables
Enable Teams to Secure Additional Network Segments
Enable teams to extend security monitoring and enforcement to new or segmented areas of the network. This ensures consistent policy application and threat detection across all critical business operations.
growing networks, segmented environments, multi-site organizations, hybrid cloud deployments
Streamline Management of Distributed Resources
Streamline the management of security policies and configurations across a larger number of distributed resources or user groups. This reduces administrative burden and improves response times to security incidents.
organizations with remote workforces, geographically dispersed offices, cloud-based applications, managed service environments
Automate Security Policy Enforcement at Scale
Automate security policy enforcement across an increased number of clusters, ensuring compliance with internal standards and external regulations. This minimizes manual intervention and reduces the risk of human error.
compliance-driven organizations, businesses with strict security mandates, IT departments managing large user bases, regulated industries
Key Features
Addition of 5 Clusters
Increases the capacity of your Cisco security platform to manage more network segments or devices, supporting business growth.
Subscription Billing
Provides predictable operational expenses and continuous access to software updates and support without large upfront capital investment.
Platform Licensing
Unlocks advanced security features and capabilities inherent to the Cisco security platform, enhancing overall protection.
Compliance Support
Helps organizations meet regulatory requirements and internal security policies by ensuring their security infrastructure is properly licensed and capable.
Operational Continuity
Ensures uninterrupted security services and access to critical updates, safeguarding business operations against emerging threats.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, making expanded platform capacity essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations for patient data privacy, necessitating secure and scalable IT infrastructure to manage protected health information effectively.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often involve complex, segmented networks for operational technology (OT) and IT, requiring expanded security management to protect critical infrastructure and supply chains.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information, demanding strong security measures and compliance with data protection standards to maintain trust and avoid breaches.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the PS-Security-Base SKU?
The PS-Security-Base SKU represents the foundational platform license for Cisco's security solutions. This specific add-on license allows you to expand the capacity of that base platform.
How does adding clusters benefit my organization?
Adding clusters allows your security platform to monitor, manage, and protect more network segments, devices, or users. This is crucial for growing businesses or those with complex, segmented IT environments.
Is this a perpetual or subscription license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning you pay recurring fees for access to the software and its features over a defined term, ensuring you always have up-to-date security capabilities.
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.