Managed Firewall Sacramento
Our managed firewall service monitors and backs up your FortiGate, with documented change control, one senior engineer as your point of contact and prices published below. Ambio Edge Networks is a Fortinet Engage partner.
Local Proof
A Sacramento software company with about a hundred staff on site, plus remote staff overseas, came to us with a failing Netgate firewall and unmanaged wireless. We moved them to a FortiGate and brought the wireless under a new on-premises controller. We have run their monitoring, configuration backups and monthly reporting since May 1, 2026.
Track Record
Years of network-only practice across architecture, security and operations.
Sites delivered. Healthcare clinics, law offices, financial branches, multi-site operations.
Design target for fully redundant builds with HA firewalls, diverse ISPs, and backed-up power.
Senior engineer on every engagement, with no handoff to junior staff.
Career aggregate, including prior-employer engagements. 99.99% (about 53 minutes of downtime a year) is not a service guarantee or uptime SLA; contracted service levels are defined in each customer agreement.
What You Get
We design, install, monitor and operate FortiGate firewalls. The engineer on your account is Cisco, Fortinet and CompTIA certified.
Checks run every minute, and alerts go to your Slack or Teams channel and to us at the same time. You see the same dashboard we do. The firewall-only plans watch the FortiGate itself; Edge site plans also watch the switches, access points and internet lines (WAN links).
Every plan includes configuration backups with version history for planned rollback. Every change we make is written up first: what, why, when and how to roll it back.
Edge Firewall Managed includes a quarterly rule review. Edge Compliance goes further: a quarterly review of every firewall rule, address-translation (NAT) rule and VPN tunnel, covering what is still used, what is orphaned and what an auditor will ask about, with written findings you can hand to your insurer.
FortiOS upgrades are scheduled in your window and, if you run a redundant pair of firewalls (an HA pair), tested on a staged unit first. Watch includes no upgrade windows and Managed includes one a year. On Edge site plans, upgrades are scheduled as changes: included hours first where the plan has them, then the Standard hourly rate.
The firewall-only plans keep a license, support and certificate expiry calendar. End-of-order and end-of-support dates are tracked per serial, so hardware is replaced on your schedule, not Fortinet's.
Plans
For a single managed FortiGate there are two firewall-only plans, or an Edge plan that also covers the switches and Wi-Fi at the site. Device ceilings and contract terms are on the services page.
| Plan | Per month | Response (business hours) | Included changes | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edge Firewall Watch | $199 per firewall | Next business day | None; $225/hr, 30-min minimum | The firewall alone: monitoring, nightly backup and a license expiry calendar |
| Edge Firewall Managed | $449 per firewall | Same as Watch | Up to 2 a month, 30 min each | The firewall alone, with routine changes included |
| Edge Essential | From $695 per site | Same as Watch | None; same hourly rate as Watch | One FortiGate, a switch and a few APs, monitored as one site |
| Edge Secure | $1,295 per site | Same business day | 1 hr/month | Growing office that wants trend review, ISP escalation and a quarterly posture check |
| Edge Compliance | $1,795 per site | Priority, same day | 2 hrs/month | HIPAA, PCI or SOC 2 scope that needs audit evidence |
Billed monthly in advance. Human response is Mon–Fri, 8 AM–5 PM Pacific; after-hours emergency work is billed by the hour when an authorized contact requests it, subject to engineer availability and acceptance. Response targets cover normal incident volume; repeated or excessive incidents bill as project work. Coverage exceptions and contracted targets are defined in your agreement.
Watch and Managed carry a one-time $750 setup, waived after a FortiGate swap or takeover we perform; a high-availability (HA) pair adds $75 a month on Watch or $100 on Managed. Hardware is quoted separately through our authorized Fortinet distributor.
Sizing
Three decisions before a monthly plan starts.
Where We Work
On site across the Sacramento region (Roseville, Folsom, Davis and Elk Grove), the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose; remote across California and for multi-site organizations across the U.S. Pre-staging and configuration happen remotely; cutover is on site or remote-hands guided, your choice. Related: network management in Sacramento, network monitoring, firewall migration, and Fortinet MSP in Sacramento or San Francisco.
FAQ
The two firewall-only plans and three site plans are priced in the table above. Published guides put managed firewall service for an office of 10 to 100 users at roughly $325 to $1,175 a month. Edge Firewall Watch sits below that range, Managed and Essential inside it, and Secure and Compliance above it because they include change hours, faster response and, on Compliance, audit evidence. The managed firewall cost guide explains what drives the price.
Yes, through our distributor, quoted by exact part number with the support and hardware-replacement contract (FortiCare) and the security-subscription bundle (UTP) included. For reference only, a FortiGate 70G with three years of UTP lists at $3,644.78 on the current Americas price list. Ordering runs through our Fortinet reseller page. We register the unit to your Fortinet account, not ours, so renewals and warranty stay yours.
Yes. We onboard existing units: configuration review, backup, monitoring, and a written list of what we recommend changing. The security subscriptions (FortiGuard) need to be current; we quote the renewals. Plan start conditions are under "How do we start?" below.
Keep your general IT provider for help desk and Microsoft 365 and bring us in for the network layer only. We coordinate with them and do not compete for the desktop work. See co-managed network for how the split works.
Yes. For outpatient clinics and health SaaS companies, the Edge Compliance plan covers segmentation, firewall policy reviews, access reviews and the evidence an auditor asks for. For healthcare, we currently provide the monthly plan through your MSP; the assessment is sold direct. See the HIPAA network engineering page for the specifics and the limits.
Within business hours, at the response tier in the plan table above. Critical outages are acknowledged and mitigation begins within that window. After-hours terms are in the plan notes above.
A Network Risk Assessment, $3,500 for a single small site: one firewall, up to three switch groups (a stack counts as one), 100 connected devices and 6 access points. Larger networks are priced by size on our assessment pricing page, prepaid. You get the report whether or not you hire us for the work. Required before any Edge site plan, and before Edge Firewall Managed on a firewall we did not install or swap. Not required for Edge Firewall Watch, or for Managed on a FortiGate we installed or swapped. Watch is usually live within the first week after you hand over access. See a sample report (PDF).
Scheduled in your maintenance window, after we check the release notes and known issues for your model. The configuration is backed up first, and the rollback plan is written down before we start.
An authorized contact asks by email or in your alert channel. We confirm the scope, make the change in the maintenance window (or sooner if it is urgent and you approve), and record the change in our change-control write-up.
Yes, as a migration: from $6,500 for a FortiGate up to the 90 series, from $8,900 for the 100F to 200F class or an HA pair; the assessment sets the fixed fee. See SonicWall, Meraki and Sophos replacement, or firewall migration services for how it runs.
Sources
Last reviewed October 21, 2026. Vendor documents and prices change; confirm against the linked pages before you decide.
FortiOS and FortiGuard are also trademarks of Fortinet, Inc. Other vendor names are trademarks of their respective owners, used to identify the products discussed. Ambio Edge Networks is an independent Fortinet partner, not affiliated with or endorsed by any vendor named here.
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