New AI capabilities empower organizations to protect against emerging threats, accelerate security and network operations with agentic AI
#Fortinet announced significant FortiAI innovations embedded across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform to enhance protection against new and emerging threats, simplify and automate security and network operations, and secure employee use of AI-enabled services.
“Fortinet’s AI advantage stems from the breadth and depth of our AI ecosystem—shaped by over a decade of AI innovation and reinforced by more patents than any other cybersecurity vendor. By embedding FortiAI across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, including new agentic AI capabilities, we’re empowering our customers to reduce the workload on their security and network analysts while improving the efficiency, speed, and accuracy of their security and networking operations,” said Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet.
The Need for FortiAI innovations and Security for AI Systems
Enterprises must leverage security solutions that use AI to defend against increasingly advanced threats—especially those that use AI to bypass defenses, automate attacks, and exploit vulnerabilities. Fortinet, backed by over 500 AI patents and more than 15 years of AI innovation, delivers AI-driven security to stop advanced threats while ensuring AI systems remain protected and trustworthy.
New AI Innovations from Fortinet
FortiAI has now expanded to encompass Fortinet’s entire AI-driven approach across security and network operations. Integrated into the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, it delivers intelligent, autonomous capabilities to stop advanced threats, streamline operations, and support secure AI adoption.
This expansion introduces new capabilities across two key areas:
- FortiAI-Assist combines GenAI, agentic AI, and AIOps to simplify and transform security and network operations with intelligent automation and analytics.
- FortiAI-Protect enhances security with AI-driven threat detection, enabling the identification of advanced and unknown threats, contextual risk assessments, and secure AI application usage.
Highlights of FortiAI-Assist:
- Agentic AI Applications for Network Operations
- Agentic AI Applications for Security Operations
Highlights of FortiAI-Protect:
- Detecting AI application usage for over 6,500 AI URLs, including GenAI apps
- Controlling access and enforcing zero-trust principles for GenAI services
- Enhancing threat detection and malware protection
- Improving safeguards against sophisticated attack techniques
Fortinet Helps Organizations Secure AI Models, Infrastructure, and Data
Organizations can leverage FortiAI-SecureAI across the Fortinet platform to protect AI workloads, models, and infrastructure. Cloud-native AI workloads can be defended across all major cloud providers while enforcing zero-trust access policies and preventing LLM data leakage.
FortiAI Prioritizes Data Privacy
FortiAI enforces strict privacy controls, processing queries locally, blocking sensitive data before reaching the LLMs, and ensuring strict data protection without compromising user privacy. Multi-layered safeguards ensure that no user data trains the Fortinet GenAI assistant models.
Conclusion
With FortiAI-Assist, FortiAI-Protect, and FortiAI-SecureAI, Fortinet continues to set the standard in AI-driven cybersecurity, empowering organizations to stay ahead of sophisticated threats with intelligent, proactive security innovations. Fortinet Security Fabric
To learn more, visit the official Fortinet website.