In short
Cisco Secure Access is ordered as one SECURE-ACCESS-SUB subscription plus Secure Internet Access, Secure Private Access or both in one tier, Essentials or Advantage, per covered user (minimum 50) for 12, 36 or 60 months. Provider Pricing PRP- codes add monthly billing. Forever Systems, a Cisco Partner, can quote either route and set it up.
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What you order for Cisco Secure Access
Every Cisco Secure Access order starts with one subscription line, SECURE-ACCESS-SUB, which sets the term and start date. Each customer has one subscription, and everything else is configured under it:
- Secure Internet Access (SIA): secure web gateway, DNS protection, cloud-delivered firewall, cloud access security broker controls and file sandboxing for internet and SaaS traffic
- Secure Private Access (SPA): zero trust network access and VPN as a service to private applications, with device posture checks
- DNS Defense: DNS-layer security, SaaS API data loss prevention and cloud malware scanning, for organisations that want DNS protection on Secure Access
- Add-ons and support: optional extras such as data loss prevention or remote browser isolation, plus a support level
SIA and SPA come in two tiers, Essentials and Advantage. You can buy SIA, SPA or both, but they must be in the same tier: a mix of Essentials and Advantage billing codes is an invalid configuration. DNS Defense is the exception. It cannot be combined with SIA, but it can sit beside SPA in either tier.
If you are moving from Umbrella, Cisco's EOL15975 notice maps each Umbrella code to a Secure Access code; our Umbrella part numbers page lists them. For what each tier does in practice, and what Advantage adds over Essentials, see Cisco Secure Access (opens in a new tab) and Cisco Secure Access licensing (opens in a new tab) on our Cisco Secure site. This page lists the part numbers and buying routes.
How Cisco Secure Access licensing works
Secure Access is licensed per covered user: each internet-connected employee, subcontractor or other authorised individual covered by the deployment. The subscription quantity should cover all of them.
| Rule | What Cisco's ordering guide says |
|---|---|
| Minimum | 50 users for each SIA or SPA billing code; DNS Defense from 1 user |
| Term | 12, 36 or 60 months; the term applies to everything in the subscription |
| Billing | Prepaid for the term or annual on the price list; Provider Pricing adds monthly |
| Adding users | Any time during the term with a change order; added quantities co-terminate with the subscription |
| Add-on quantities | Match the larger of your SIA or SPA user counts (not the sum); Investigate Console is counted separately |
| Support | Enhanced Support is included by default, with Premium as an upgrade |
Experience Insights (SA-INSIGHTS), digital experience monitoring, is added automatically to SIA and SPA orders. The Investigate API is included up to 2,000 queries a day; the Small, Medium and Large Investigate API add-ons raise the rate limit, and you buy one of them. Multi-org management is included in the SIA, SPA and DNS Defense packages with no extra code.
Cisco replaced the original SIA Essentials code, SA-SIA-ESS-K9, with SA-SIA-ESS on 18 February 2026 when it restructured the Essentials package; new orders and renewals use SA-SIA-ESS. Education customers can order DNS Defense variants that count faculty and students; we confirm those codes and counts at quote.
Source: Cisco Secure Access subscription ordering guide (opens in a new tab) (updated 20 October 2026).
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Cisco Secure Access part numbers
Current Secure Access codes from Cisco's ordering guides. Order one SECURE-ACCESS-SUB (or PRP-SECACC-SUB) per customer, then the packages, add-ons and support under it. Price-list codes are billed annually or prepaid; Provider Pricing codes can also be billed monthly.
| Part number | Description | Unit | Term | Route | Basket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SECURE-ACCESS-SUB | Secure Access Subscription (top line) | One per customer | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIA-ESS | Secure Internet Access Essentials | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SPA-ESS-K9 | Secure Private Access Essentials | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIA-ADV-K9 | Secure Internet Access Advantage | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SPA-ADV-K9 | Secure Private Access Advantage | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-DNS-ESS-K9 | Secure Access DNS Defense Essentials | Per covered user | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-DNS-ADV-K9 | Secure Access DNS Defense Advantage | Per covered user | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-DLP | Secure Access Data Loss Prevention add-on | Per covered user (your largest SIA or SPA count) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-INVC-USR | Secure Access Investigate Console users add-on | Per console user | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-MWARE | Secure Access Malware add-on (3 Secure Malware Analytics consoles, unlimited samples) | Per covered user (your largest SIA or SPA count) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-RBIA-ESS | Secure Access Remote Browser Isolation Advanced for Essentials | Per covered user (your largest SIA or SPA count) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-RBIR | Secure Access Remote Browser Isolation for risky sites | Per covered user (your largest SIA or SPA count) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-THRT | Secure Access Threat Defense add-on (layer 7 and IPS) | Per covered user (your largest SIA or SPA count) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-INSIGHTS | Secure Access Experience Insights (added automatically to SIA and SPA) | Per subscription | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-INV-API-S | Secure Access Investigate API, Small | One tier per subscription | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-INV-API-M | Secure Access Investigate API, Medium | One tier per subscription | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-INV-API-L | Secure Access Investigate API, Large | One tier per subscription | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-S1-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence S1: Small, up to 50 Mbps, 100 GB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-S2-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence S2: Small, up to 50 Mbps, 250 GB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-S3-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence S3: Small, up to 50 Mbps, 500 GB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-M1-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence M1: Medium, up to 500 Mbps, 1 TB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-M2-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence M2: Medium, up to 500 Mbps, 2.5 TB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-M3-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence M3: Medium, up to 500 Mbps, 5 TB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-L1-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence L1: Large, up to 5 Gbps, 10 TB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-L2-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence L2: Large, up to 5 Gbps, 25 TB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SA-SIAS-L3-ESS | SIA Essentials site licence L3: Large, up to 5 Gbps, 50 TB SSE data a month | Per site | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SVS-SECA-SUP-E | Secure Access Enhanced Support (selected by default) | Per subscription | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| SVS-SECA-SUP-P | Secure Access Premium Support (upgrade) | Per subscription | 12, 36 or 60 months | Annual | |
| PRP-SECACC-SUB | Provider Pricing Secure Access Subscription (top line) | One per customer | 12, 36 or 60 months | Monthly MSP | |
| PRP-SA-SIA-ESS | Provider Pricing Secure Internet Access Essentials | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Monthly MSP | |
| PRP-SA-SPA-ESS | Provider Pricing Secure Private Access Essentials | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Monthly MSP | |
| PRP-SA-SIA-ADV | Provider Pricing Secure Internet Access Advantage | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Monthly MSP | |
| PRP-SA-SPA-ADV | Provider Pricing Secure Private Access Advantage | Per covered user (minimum 50) | 12, 36 or 60 months | Monthly MSP | |
| PRP-SA-DNS-ESS | Provider Pricing Secure Access DNS Defense Essentials | Per covered user | Confirmed at quote | Monthly MSP | |
| PRP-SA-DNS-ADV | Provider Pricing Secure Access DNS Defense Advantage | Per covered user | Confirmed at quote | Monthly MSP |
Secure Access price-list and Provider Pricing codes side by side
Each Provider Pricing code beside the price-list code for the same package. Add-ons, site licences and support are listed on the price-list route above; their Provider Pricing equivalents are confirmed at quote.
| Product | Unit | Monthly MSP part number | Annual part number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secure Access subscription (top line) | One per customer | PRP-SECACC-SUB | SECURE-ACCESS-SUB |
| Secure Internet Access Essentials | Per covered user | PRP-SA-SIA-ESS | SA-SIA-ESS |
| Secure Private Access Essentials | Per covered user | PRP-SA-SPA-ESS | SA-SPA-ESS-K9 |
| Secure Internet Access Advantage | Per covered user | PRP-SA-SIA-ADV | SA-SIA-ADV-K9 |
| Secure Private Access Advantage | Per covered user | PRP-SA-SPA-ADV | SA-SPA-ADV-K9 |
| DNS Defense Essentials | Per covered user | PRP-SA-DNS-ESS | SA-DNS-ESS-K9 |
| DNS Defense Advantage | Per covered user | PRP-SA-DNS-ADV | SA-DNS-ADV-K9 |
Part numbers from Cisco Secure-Access-Sub Ordering Guide (updated 20 October 2026) (opens in a new tab); Cisco Security Ordering Guide for Providers (updated 13 March 2026) (opens in a new tab); Cisco EOL15975, Umbrella SIG and DNS migration part numbers, including Provider Pricing for DNS Defense (updated 2 September 2026) (opens in a new tab), checked 2026-11-08. Add the licences you need to your basket and request a quote: we confirm the right part numbers, quantities and terms when we quote.
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Site-based Secure Internet Access Essentials
For offices where it is simpler to license the site than count every person, Cisco offers SIA Essentials by site. Each site licence is sized by bandwidth group and comes with a monthly security service edge (SSE) data allowance:
| Bandwidth group | Tiers and monthly data allowance |
|---|---|
| Small, up to 50 Mbps | S1 100 GB, S2 250 GB, S3 500 GB |
| Medium, up to 500 Mbps | M1 1 TB, M2 2.5 TB, M3 5 TB |
| Large, up to 5 Gbps | L1 10 TB, L2 25 TB, L3 50 TB |
Site licences cover people working on site. Remote and roaming users are licensed per covered user as normal, and you can mix site and user licences in one subscription. Site licences are available for SIA Essentials only; SPA and DNS Defense are licensed per covered user. Cisco's guide says the site package leaves out Experience Insights, the Secure Client and zero trust access client, remote browser isolation, reserved IPs and multi-org, and includes the other SIA capabilities. We can model both approaches for a multi-site estate and quote the mix that fits.
Provider Pricing: Cisco's programme for managed service providers
Cisco publishes a second set of Secure Access codes for providers in its Provider Pricing programme for Secure Access, XDR and security suites. The structure mirrors the price list: one PRP-SECACC-SUB subscription per customer, then PRP-SA-SIA-ESS, PRP-SA-SPA-ESS, PRP-SA-SIA-ADV or PRP-SA-SPA-ADV in a single tier, with a minimum of 50 users per billing code and terms of 12, 36 or 60 months. Cisco's EOL15975 notice also names PRP-SA-DNS-ESS and PRP-SA-DNS-ADV, Provider Pricing for DNS Defense Essentials and Advantage, as the replacements for the Umbrella DNS service-provider codes.
The differences are in how it is billed and supported:
- Billing: prepaid, annual or monthly. The subscription runs for the full term whichever billing frequency you choose.
- Rates: Cisco describes Provider Pricing as one flat rate across all customer deployments, without the user bands of the price list.
- Support: Provider Pricing includes Cisco's Solution Support for the provider; support arrangements are confirmed at quote.
The comparison table above puts each Provider Pricing code beside its price-list code. Monthly billing through Provider Pricing suits organisations that want Secure Access as an operating cost; the price-list route suits a fixed annual or prepaid budget. We can quote the route that suits you, with terms confirmed at quote.
Source: Cisco Security Ordering Guide for Providers (opens in a new tab) (updated 13 March 2026); DNS Defense Provider Pricing codes from Cisco EOL15975 (opens in a new tab).
Secure Client and what else is included
Every Secure Access package includes the right to download Cisco Secure Client for use with Secure Access. Secure Client is needed for VPN, client-based zero trust access, roaming internet security and Experience Insights, and there is a link to it in the Secure Access dashboard. Using Secure Client for anything else, such as remote access VPN to an on-premises Cisco firewall, needs its own licence: see Cisco Secure Client part numbers.
Browser-based SSH and RDP access to private servers needs the Advantage tier, with concurrent sessions up to the number of SPA Advantage licences. Secure Access is also part of Cisco's security suites, which bundle it with Duo, email and endpoint protection. Related reading: Cisco Secure Access DNS Defense (opens in a new tab), Cisco ZTNA (opens in a new tab), Cisco Umbrella part numbers and other SASE and ZTNA products.
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Tell us how many people need internet and private app access, how many sites you have and whether you are moving from Umbrella or a VPN. We can choose the tier, check the configuration rules, size add-ons to the right user count and compare price-list and Provider Pricing routes, then place the order and help with changes and renewals. Add the part numbers you need to your basket and send them with your enquiry, or contact us and we can build the quote with you.
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- Help choosing the right edition: we check what you need before you buy, so you are not paying for features you will never use
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Frequently asked questions
Which Secure Access part numbers go together on one subscription?
One SECURE-ACCESS-SUB (or PRP-SECACC-SUB), then SIA and SPA codes from the same tier: SA-SIA-ESS with SA-SPA-ESS-K9, or SA-SIA-ADV-K9 with SA-SPA-ADV-K9. Cisco treats a mix of tiers as an invalid configuration. DNS Defense (SA-DNS-ESS-K9 or SA-DNS-ADV-K9) takes the place of SIA and can sit beside an SPA code in either tier. For how the tiers compare, see Cisco Secure Access licensing (opens in a new tab).
What is the minimum number of Secure Access users?
Cisco sets a minimum of 50 users for each SIA or SPA billing code, on both the price list and Provider Pricing. DNS Defense starts at one user.
What is Cisco Provider Pricing?
Cisco's programme for providers selling Secure Access, XDR and security suites. It uses PRP- part numbers such as PRP-SECACC-SUB and PRP-SA-SIA-ESS, one flat rate across all customer deployments without user bands, and prepaid, annual or monthly billing.
Can Cisco Secure Access be billed monthly?
Yes, through Provider Pricing, which offers monthly billing over a 12, 36 or 60-month term. Price-list subscriptions are billed annually or prepaid. We can quote whichever suits you, with terms confirmed at quote.
What replaced SA-SIA-ESS-K9?
SA-SIA-ESS. Cisco retired SA-SIA-ESS-K9 on 18 February 2026 when it restructured the Secure Internet Access Essentials package, so new orders and renewals use the new code.
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