Cisco Tetration Policy Enforcement License Per Workload
Cisco Tetration policy enforcement licensing provides granular visibility and control over your data center workloads, ensuring compliance and security for your business operations.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to advanced policy enforcement capabilities.
- Workload Coverage: Enables policy enforcement for individual workloads within your data center.
- Security Focus: Enhances security posture by enforcing defined policies across your environment.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements through consistent policy application.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Tetration platform license provides per-workload policy enforcement capabilities, allowing businesses to define, monitor, and enforce security and operational policies across their data center environments. It unlocks advanced features for granular control and visibility, crucial for maintaining compliance and operational integrity.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this license integrates with Cisco's Tetration platform to manage and secure complex data center deployments. It fits within existing IT infrastructure, providing a software-based solution to enhance security and operational governance without requiring extensive hardware overhauls.
- Policy Definition: Create and manage granular security and operational policies.
- Workload Visibility: Gain deep insight into application behavior and communication patterns.
- Compliance Monitoring: Continuously audit and report on policy adherence.
- Automated Enforcement: Automatically enforce policies to prevent unauthorized actions.
- Subscription Model: Flexible, recurring licensing ensures access to the latest features and updates.
This Cisco license offers SMB and mid-market teams enterprise-grade policy enforcement to secure their data center and maintain compliance with predictable subscription costs.
What This Enables
Enable granular security policy enforcement
Enable teams to define and enforce specific security policies for individual workloads within the data center. This ensures that each application component adheres to defined security baselines, reducing the attack surface.
on-premises data centers, hybrid cloud environments, virtualized infrastructure, containerized applications
Streamline compliance monitoring and reporting
Streamline the process of monitoring and reporting on policy compliance across the entire data center. This provides auditable evidence of adherence to regulatory requirements and internal standards.
regulated industries, IT audit processes, security operations centers, change management workflows
Automate policy application for new deployments
Automate the application of security and operational policies when new workloads are deployed. This ensures that all new applications are immediately compliant and secured according to organizational standards.
DevOps pipelines, continuous integration environments, infrastructure as code deployments, rapid application development
Key Features
Per-workload policy enforcement
Provides granular control and security tailored to each specific application component, minimizing risk.
Subscription licensing
Offers predictable costs and continuous access to the latest software features and security updates.
Centralized policy management
Simplifies the administration of security and operational policies across the entire data center from a single console.
Real-time visibility and analytics
Enables proactive identification of security threats and operational issues through continuous monitoring.
Compliance reporting
Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements and internal governance by providing auditable policy enforcement data.
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 granular policy enforcement critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating robust security controls and auditable policy enforcement for patient data.
Legal & Professional Services
Firms handle confidential client information and must adhere to strict data protection and ethical guidelines, requiring secure environments and controlled access.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial control systems and operational technology environments demand high levels of security and reliability, where policy enforcement can prevent unauthorized access and ensure operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Tetration Policy Enforcement?
Cisco Tetration Policy Enforcement is a software-based solution that allows organizations to define, monitor, and enforce security and operational policies for individual workloads within their data center. It provides granular visibility and control to enhance security and compliance.
What does 'per workload' mean for this license?
A 'per workload' license means that the license entitlement is based on the number of individual workloads (e.g., virtual machines, containers, bare-metal servers) for which you are enforcing policies. This allows for precise scaling of your licensing costs.
Is this license tied to specific hardware?
This is a software license for the Cisco Tetration platform. While it enhances the capabilities of your data center infrastructure, it is not directly tied to a specific piece of hardware in the way a traditional hardware warranty might be. It applies to the software platform's policy enforcement functions.
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.