Licensing models for Forcepoint NGFW in the Azure cloud

Two licensing models are supported for Forcepoint NGFW in the Azure cloud.

• Bring Your Own License — You pay only Microsoft Azure's standard runtime fee for the NGFW Engine instance. You must manually install the license for the NGFW Engine in the Forcepoint NGFW Security Management Center (SMC) is automatically installed.
• Hourly (pay as you go license) — You pay Microsoft Azure's standard runtime fee for the NGFW Engine instance plus an hourly license fee based on the runtime of the NGFW Engine. No license installation is needed for the NGFW Engine in the SMC.

For features that require separate licenses, the SMC automatically detects which licensing model the NGFW Engine uses.