Technical Tip: FortiEDR Google Market Place - FAQ

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Description	This article describes about FortiEDR Google Market Place - Common data-points and FAQ
Scope	Addressing common questions in regards to Google Market Place enablement, renewals and ongoing operations
Solution	Effective 9/7/2022 FortiEDR is available via Google's Market Place, see more at:  https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/fortigcp-project-001/fortinet-fortiedr-032022-v... The enablement allows customers with significant presence of assets hosted in GCP to automatically discover and assign FortiEDR collectors into GCP assets. The market-place plan enables two on-boarding public commercial plans as following: The available plans carry the following commercial terms:  100 seats as entry point with annual subscription cycles for 1-3 years. Subscription fee is billed every month or year by Google depends on the respective setup plan; either way the plan commitment cycle is annual (1-3 years). Purchase increments – True-up/pay-as-you-go model calculated and billed automatically on a monthly basis for any endpoint beyond the initial purchase. The initial 100 seats subscription will be renewed at the end of the subscription cycle with private offering suggested to customers beforehand. Canceling a subscription can be done via disabling auto-renewal option. The onboarding commercial plans as listed above include bundled Best-Practices-Services (aka BPS). The market place enablement backend is deployed on Fortinet managed GCP hosted environment and not the customer GCP project.  The plan is not enabled for MSSPs which are granted with their own multi-tenant environment to enable customer onboarding. FortiEDR Google Market place advantages:   Technical - Auto-discovery and initial deployment for assets hosted in GCP. Technical - Limited XDR license enabling to digest and correlate GCP-Secure-Command-Center alerts (https://cloud.google.com/security-command-center) with threat hunting hosts activity. Commercial - True-up seat consumption without the need to purchase "fixed" incremental seat bulks.