Co-Managed Firewall

Co-Managed Firewall

Ongoing Firewall policy management, monitoring, and annual security review — for firewall environments that stay current and compliant.

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Firewall policy doesn’t fail all at once. It drifts — undocumented exceptions accumulate, rules outlive their intent, and the gap between written policy and actual posture grows with every unreviewed change.

Challenge

Policy Drift
Policy Drift

Policy accumulates exceptions faster than it gets reviewed. Over time the rules say one thing, the network does another.

Version and Patch Lag
Version and Patch Lag

FTD and FMC patches require planning, maintenance windows, and post-upgrade validation. Most organizations defer them — and defer the risk with them.

Escalation Gaps
Escalation Gaps

Your team manages daily policy. When FTD hits an issue requiring L2/L3 depth or Cisco TAC coordination, that capability has to exist somewhere.

SERVICE SCOPE

What Co-Managed Firewall Includes

Bravo operates alongside your team on an ongoing basis — not instead of them. Here’s what’s covered.

Policy Management

Platform Lifecycle

Monitoring & Health

Incident Response

Elective Hours

Policy Management

Bravo manages ongoing FTD policy changes and conducts an annual security policy review — a structured evaluation of active rules against current threat posture and business intent. Policy changes execute via Elective Services hours. Every change is documented. Rules that no longer reflect business intent are flagged for retirement.

Policy Management

Bravo manages ongoing FTD policy changes and conducts an annual security policy review — a structured evaluation of active rules against current threat posture and business intent. Policy changes execute via Elective Services hours. Every change is documented. Rules that no longer reflect business intent are flagged for retirement.

how it works

From Onboarding to Steady State

Co-Managed Firewall is a continuous operational relationship. Here’s what the engagement looks like from day one forward.

01
Onboarding & Policy Baseline

Bravo documents your Firewall environment, establishes the policy baseline and responsibility model, and configures monitoring.

02
Steady-State Operations

Bravo manages policy changes, patches, monitoring, and annual security policy review on an ongoing basis.

03
Knowledge Transfer

Bravo builds runbooks and trains your team on Co-Managed procedures — your staff stays capable and informed, not dependent.

04
Escalation & Incident Response

When something breaks, the path is defined. L1: your team. L2/L3: Bravo. L4: Cisco TAC, coordinated by Bravo. No ambiguity, no gap.

WHY BRAVO FOR FIREWALLS

Policy Discipline at Scale.

Every Bravo engineer works from the same playbook — every site gets the same policy documentation and configuration discipline.

“Firewall policy management without deep Firepower expertise is how you end up with rule sets nobody understands. Bravo owns our policy lifecycle — quarterly reviews, change requests, compliance documentation. We have a clean, defensible posture for the first time.”

Healthcare System, 500 Locations Nationwide

Director, Tech Operations

“Our firewall environment grew to a point where change control was a risk event every time. Bravo’s Co-Managed Firewalls brought structure — documented policies, tested change procedures, and engineers who actually know what each rule does and why. Night and day.”

Financial Services Enterprise, East Coast

VP, Network Engineering

“Compliance requires us to document and review firewall rules on a defined schedule. We were failing that requirement because we didn’t have the internal bandwidth. Bravo runs the reviews, produces the documentation, and flags policy conflicts before auditors do.”

Manufacturing Company, $1.8B Revenue

VP, IT Security & Compliance

WHO IT’S FOR

IT Business Leader
IT Business Leader

Your Firewall environment is deployed but policy has drifted. The gap between intended and actual security posture is growing.

IT / Security Architect
IT / Security Architect

You know what a well-managed Firewall environment looks like. Yours isn’t there — not from lack of expertise, but lack of bandwidth.

Firewall Administrator
Firewall Administrator

You manage FTD policy daily and know the gaps. Bravo works alongside you — your environment knowledge stays essential.

Cisco Account Team
Cisco Account Team

Your customer’s FTD environment is drifting. Bravo brings the policy discipline that makes it perform as intended.

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Firewall Security That Reflects Your Actual Posture.

Whether deploying FTD, migrating from another platform, or managing policy drift — talk to someone who has done it before.

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