Fortinet Expands AI Security with the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service
Key Highlights
- ➤Fortinet (FTNT) launches cloud-delivered FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service
- ➤FortiAIGate technology inspects prompts, responses, tool calls, and agent actions in real time
- ➤Expanded DLP detects 35 PII and confidential-data types for alerting, blocking, or redaction
- ➤FortiAIGate integrates Virtue AI technology to strengthen AI guardrails and performance
- ➤FortiAIGate supports self-hosting on-premises or in customer clouds for data sovereignty
Expert Statements
Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet
“Organizations need AI security that can scale with how quickly AI is being adopted across the enterprise.”
Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet
“By extending advanced AI inspection and guardrails through FortiGate, we are making AI security available through the infrastructure customers already use.”
Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet
“FortiAIGate provides the foundation for this broader strategy, giving customers flexibility in how they deploy and consume AI security based on their cost, performance, privacy, and sovereignty requirements.”
Will Townsend, Chief Analyst at LoneStar Advisory & Research
“FortiAIGate takes an elegant approach to a complex problem.”
Will Townsend, Chief Analyst at LoneStar Advisory & Research
“Rather than asking customers to manage separate tools for AI security, governance, cost, and agent visibility, Fortinet is bringing these capabilities together in a single gateway.”
Will Townsend, Chief Analyst at LoneStar Advisory & Research
“The rapid integration of Virtue AI technology further strengthens that story by improving the guardrails and performance customers need as they move AI into production.”
Fortinet(®) (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced the new FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service, delivering AI-specific inspection and guardrails to FortiGate customers through a cloud-delivered service. Organizations gain deeper visibility into AI activity and stop AI threats and data exposure through the Fortinet solutions they already use. Ongoing innovation in FortiAIGate powers these capabilities with high-performance AI guardrails, expanded access and compliance controls, shadow AI and agent visibility, and technology from the recent acquisition of Virtue AI.
Fortinet’s broad FortiGate footprint gives organizations a simpler path to adopt advanced AI security through the infrastructure they already use. Customers can enable the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service without deploying and managing separate AI security infrastructure, making advanced AI security accessible to a broader set of organizations. Customers with more advanced security, privacy, and sovereignty requirements can deploy FortiAIGate directly in their own environment for greater control over how and where AI traffic and data are processed.
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