Cisco XCAT Virtual Security Platform Licensing
Enhance your virtual security posture with Cisco XCAT Virtual Security Platform licensing, providing essential security capabilities for your business operations.
- Platform Access: Unlock advanced security features and management capabilities for your virtualized infrastructure.
- Subscription Term: Benefit from continuous security updates and support through a flexible subscription model.
- Virtual Environment Focus: Specifically designed to secure your Cisco virtual security appliances and virtualized workloads.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance and protect sensitive data within your virtualized network.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco XCAT Virtual Security Platform license provides the software foundation for essential security functionalities within your virtualized environment. It enables critical security services and management features necessary to protect your digital assets and ensure operational continuity.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this licensing is crucial for businesses running virtualized applications and infrastructure. It integrates directly with your existing Cisco virtual security appliances, ensuring a cohesive and protected network.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Activate advanced threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities.
- Virtualization Optimized: Tailored for securing virtual machines and cloud-native workloads.
- Simplified Management: Centralized control and visibility over your virtual security services.
- Continuous Updates: Receive regular software updates and security patches to stay ahead of emerging threats.
- Subscription Value: Predictable costs and access to the latest features through a recurring subscription.
Secure your virtual infrastructure with Cisco XCAT licensing, offering essential security capabilities and predictable subscription value for growing businesses.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Virtual Threat Protection
Enable teams to deploy and manage advanced threat prevention and detection services within their virtualized network infrastructure. This ensures proactive defense against a wide range of cyber threats targeting virtual workloads.
virtualized server environments, cloud-native application deployments, hybrid cloud infrastructure, network security operations
Streamline Virtual Security Management
Streamline the administration and monitoring of security policies across multiple virtual security appliances. This simplifies operational tasks and provides centralized visibility for IT teams managing complex virtual environments.
multi-VM security deployments, centralized IT management, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) security, network segmentation strategies
Automate Security Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of security policies and compliance standards within the virtualized environment. This reduces manual configuration errors and ensures consistent security posture across all virtual assets.
compliance-driven IT operations, virtualized data centers, secure remote access solutions, network access control
Key Features
Virtual Security Platform Licensing
Provides the software foundation to activate and manage essential security services on Cisco virtual appliances, protecting your digital assets.
Subscription Billing Model
Offers predictable operational expenses and ensures continuous access to the latest security features and updates, keeping your defenses current.
XCAT Virtual Security
Enables advanced threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities specifically optimized for virtualized environments.
Platform Software
Unlocks the full potential of your Cisco virtual security hardware, allowing for enhanced management and security policy enforcement.
Compliance Support
Helps organizations meet regulatory requirements by providing robust security controls and audit trails for virtualized operations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security controls and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX to protect sensitive customer data and transaction integrity within their virtualized systems.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations, necessitating robust security measures to safeguard electronic protected health information (ePHI) across their virtual infrastructure.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality groups handle significant volumes of customer data and payment information, requiring secure virtual environments to prevent data breaches and maintain PCI DSS compliance.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations manage highly confidential client information, demanding secure virtual platforms to ensure data privacy and meet ethical compliance obligations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Cisco XCAT Virtual Security Platform license enable?
This license enables essential security features and management capabilities for Cisco virtual security appliances. It allows you to activate advanced threat protection, policy enforcement, and monitoring within your virtualized environment.
What is the billing model for this license?
This is a subscription-based license. You pay a recurring fee, typically monthly or annually, which grants you access to the software features and ensures you receive continuous updates and support.
What hardware or platform does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for Cisco virtual security appliances and software deployed within a virtualized environment. It is designed to enhance the security functions of these virtual platforms.
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.