Cisco Tetration CWP License - Per Workload
Enhance your network security posture with Cisco Tetration CWP licensing, providing per-workload visibility and control to safeguard your business operations.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to advanced workload security and compliance features.
- Coverage Scope: Enables granular visibility and policy enforcement for every workload in your environment.
- Value Proposition: Gain critical insights into application dependencies and traffic flows for better security and compliance.
- Operational Benefit: Streamline security operations and reduce risk by understanding and controlling your application network.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Tetration CWP (Cloud Workload Protection) License provides essential software capabilities for monitoring, securing, and managing workloads within your IT infrastructure. This subscription license unlocks features for deep visibility into application behavior, traffic patterns, and security policy enforcement, ensuring compliance and reducing operational risk.
This licensing is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who are responsible for maintaining secure and compliant network environments. It integrates with existing Cisco infrastructure to provide a unified view of security across physical, virtual, and cloud-based workloads.
- Workload Visibility: Gain deep insight into application communication and behavior across your entire infrastructure.
- Security Policy Enforcement: Define and enforce granular security policies based on application context.
- Compliance Management: Support regulatory requirements through detailed audit trails and visibility into data flows.
- Threat Detection: Identify anomalous behavior and potential security threats within your application environment.
- Operational Efficiency: Automate security tasks and reduce manual effort in managing workload security.
This Cisco Tetration CWP license is the ideal solution for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to enhance their security posture and achieve compliance without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Enable granular workload security policies
Enable teams to define and enforce precise security policies tailored to the specific needs of each application workload. This ensures that only authorized communication occurs, significantly reducing the attack surface.
On-premises data centers, Hybrid cloud deployments, Multi-cloud environments, Virtualized infrastructure
Streamline application dependency mapping
Streamline the process of understanding complex application dependencies and communication flows across your network. This visibility is critical for effective security planning and troubleshooting.
Complex application architectures, Business-critical application management, Network segmentation projects, IT modernization initiatives
Automate compliance reporting and auditing
Automate the generation of compliance reports and audit trails by providing detailed logs of all network traffic and policy enforcement actions. This simplifies adherence to regulatory requirements.
Regulated industries, Data privacy initiatives, Internal audit requirements, Security posture assessment
Key Features
Per Workload Licensing
Provides granular control and cost-effective licensing based on the exact number of workloads requiring protection.
Cloud Workload Protection (CWP)
Secures applications and data in cloud, virtual, and bare-metal environments, ensuring consistent security across diverse infrastructures.
Application Behavior Analysis
Offers deep visibility into how applications communicate, enabling better security policy creation and threat identification.
Policy Enforcement Engine
Allows for the creation and enforcement of micro-segmentation policies to limit the blast radius of security incidents.
Subscription Billing
Provides predictable operational expenses and access to the latest software features and updates throughout the subscription term.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent security and compliance due to sensitive financial data and regulatory mandates like PCI DSS and SOX, making workload visibility and control essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting patient data under HIPAA requires robust security measures and detailed audit trails, which Tetration CWP provides by securing workloads and monitoring data flows.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Securing operational technology (OT) and IT convergence is critical. Tetration CWP can help monitor and secure industrial control systems and related IT workloads against cyber threats.
Legal & Professional Services
Handling confidential client information necessitates strong data protection and compliance with privacy regulations, making granular workload security a priority.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Tetration CWP?
Cisco Tetration Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) is a software solution that provides visibility, security, and compliance for applications and workloads across various environments, including data centers and clouds.
What does 'Per Workload' licensing mean?
This licensing model means you purchase licenses based on the number of individual workloads (e.g., virtual machines, containers, bare-metal servers) you need to protect and monitor with Tetration CWP.
Is this a perpetual or subscription license?
This license is a subscription, meaning you pay a recurring fee for access to the software and its features for a defined term, typically annually or multi-year.
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.