Overview:
The Hybrid Mesh Firewall Design Workshop is a comprehensive 4-hour interactive session designed to help organizations understand and leverage Cisco’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall capabilities. This workshop combines a targeted presentation, hands-on collaboration, and strategic planning to help customers modernize their firewall architecture, enhance security visibility, and optimize operational efficiency.

Agenda:

1. Introduction & Presentation (30-45 minutes)

  • Overview of Cisco’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution
  • Key benefits: unified policy management, improved visibility, operational simplification, and cost savings
  • Real-world examples and customer success stories
  • How a hybrid mesh approach integrates with existing infrastructures

2. Interactive Discussion & White-boarding (1–2 hours)

  • Open forum for customers and Cisco Solutions Engineers (SEs) to discuss current firewall management practices
  • Identification and mapping of all firewall types, vendors, and locations within the customer’s environment
  • White-boarding session to visualize current state, pain points, and potential gaps in visibility or management
  • Exploration of integration opportunities and quick wins for hybrid mesh deployment

3. Roadmap & Wrap-Up (1 hour)

  • Summary of key findings from the discussion and whiteboarding
  • Collaborative creation of a high-level roadmap for adopting a hybrid mesh firewall solution
  • Recommendations on next steps to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve security posture
  • Q&A and assignment of follow-up actions or resources

Key Takeaways:

  • Clear understanding of Cisco’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution and its advantages
  • A detailed map of the customer’s current firewall landscape
  • Identification of immediate opportunities and long-term strategies for transformation
  • A customized roadmap to help achieve a unified, scalable, and efficient security architecture

Who Should Attend:

  • IT and Network Security Leaders
  • Firewall and Infrastructure Administrators
  • Information Security Teams
  • Cisco SEs and Technical Architects

Format:

  • 4-hour session (in-person or virtual)
  • Combination of presentation, discussion, and collaborative white-boarding
  • Actionable deliverables and next steps tailored to customer environment

Example Agenda:

Time Activity
9:00–9:45 Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall Overview

10:45–11:45

12:45-13:45

 Open Discussion & Whiteboarding
13:45–14:45 Roadmap Development & Wrap-Up

Notes:

  • Ensure stakeholders from all relevant teams participate for a holistic view.
  • Bring network topology diagrams and inventory lists for deeper engagement.
  • The session is interactive and tailored to specific customer needs.

Agendas

8:30

Arrive

Arrive onsite at 8:30 Cisco will provide Coffee and Bagels. It will be a great time to meet your Cisco Sales team or catch up if you already know them.
9:00

Introductions & Presentation

We will do quick introductions so everyone knows each other and then spend about 45 with a presentation to set the stage about Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall.
10:00

Break

Time to get a quick break
10:15

White board & Discussion

This will be an interactive discussion about the current challenges you have today with all your secured access locations. We will diagram on a white board so we can capture a visual. We will also record all your challenges and concerns so we can make sure to address each one.
11:30

Lunch

Cisco will provide lunch for your team and a guest speaker.
12:30

White board & Discussion Continued

We will continue our morning conversation.
13:30

Roadmap & Closing

We will give you a quick roadmap of where Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall is going in the future
14:30

Ending

This is the close of the workshop but you can stick around and talk with your Cisco team about these and other projects we can help you with.

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Event Information
Event Date 2025-09-16
Event Location Timezone America/Chicago
Event Start Time 9:00 AM
Event End Time 2:30 PM
Capacity 15
Registered 0
Available Place 15
Created By Brandon Newport
Workshop Length in Hours 4
Geolocation: amer
Type of event: sales
Location Cisco Office Austin Tx

Speakers

  • Lookman Kurusumuthu

    Sr Director of Engineering

    Transformational leader, Influencer and a trusted advisor with 21+ years of diverse & progressive experience in Cybersecurity, Networking, Cloud, SecOps and DevOps who is recognized within the organizations and across multiple customers as a visionary and a transformer who could provide solutions for given business needs. As a thought leader, aided many new business initiatives that resulted in revenue.