Fortinet, a global leader in cybersecurity and secure networking, has unveiled major enhancements to FortiAI, its AI-driven threat detection and security automation platform. The expanded capabilities now span the entire Fortinet Security Fabric, bringing together GenAI, agentic AI, and AIOps to help organizations:
- Counter AI-powered cyber threats
- Secure enterprise use of GenAI services
- Simplify and automate both security and network operations
With over 500 AI patents and 15+ years of AI innovation, Fortinet continues to lead the industry in applying artificial intelligence to real-time cybersecurity defense.
The Growing Need for AI-Driven Cybersecurity
As enterprises increase reliance on AI-enabled tools and services, threat actors are leveraging AI to exploit vulnerabilities, automate attacks, and bypass traditional defenses. At the same time, organizations must protect their own AI systems from:
- Data poisoning and adversarial attacks
- Unauthorized access to large language models (LLMs)
- Shadow AI and unsanctioned GenAI usage
FortiAI answers this dual challenge by providing AI-powered protection against sophisticated threats while also helping enterprises securely adopt and manage AI.
FortiAI Innovations
FortiAI is now a core component of Fortinet’s Security Fabric platform, delivering powerful AI capabilities in three major solution areas:
1. FortiAI-Assist: Autonomous Security and Network Operations
FortiAI-Assist integrates GenAI, agentic AI, and AIOps to streamline operations with intelligent automation and analytics.
Network Operations Capabilities:
- Agentic AI automates configuration changes, security policy updates, validation, and troubleshooting.
- Autonomous issue detection and resolution for wired, wireless, and SD-WAN environments before user impact.
- Optimizes network performance using GenAI-assisted insights.
Security Operations Capabilities:
- AI-driven alert triage, filtering noise to highlight critical threats.
- Adaptive threat hunting across logs, user behavior, and network activity.
- Root-cause analysis of attack vectors using AI reasoning.
- Enrichment of threat intelligence with contextual pattern detection.
2. FortiAI-Protect: Securing GenAI Services and Enhancing Threat Detection
This module extends threat detection and compliance control for GenAI tools and services.
Features:
- Detects and classifies traffic from 6,500+ AI applications and URLs
- Tracks usage metadata: use case, model origin, data destination
- Enforces zero-trust controls to block shadow AI or risky GenAI tools
- Contextual access policies using training model data and geolocation
- Strengthens malware and intrusion prevention with ML-based threat signatures
3. FortiAI-SecureAI: AI Model and Infrastructure Protection
Designed to protect the AI ecosystem within organizations, FortiAI-SecureAI includes:
- Network-based threat protection for LLM infrastructure
- Web application and API security for AI services
- Cloud-native AI workload defense across leading platforms
- Protection of training data and intellectual property (IP)
- LLM data leakage prevention and zero-trust policy enforcement
Privacy-First AI Integration
Fortinet enforces strict privacy controls in its GenAI assistant:
- User queries are processed locally—data never leaves the environment
- Sensitive information is masked or blocked before reaching the model
- AI interactions are excluded from training the LLM, preserving confidentiality
With FortiAI-Assist, FortiAI-Protect, and FortiAI-SecureAI, Fortinet delivers a comprehensive AI-powered security framework tailored for today’s evolving threat landscape and AI-driven enterprise environments. As organizations adopt generative AI tools, Fortinet ensures they do so securely, responsibly, and efficiently—protecting both their infrastructure and intellectual assets.
Fortinet’s AI ecosystem continues to empower enterprises with speed, precision, and autonomy, driving the convergence of networking and security into a smarter, more resilient future.
