Fortinet Unveils New Calgary Cybersecurity Innovation Hub

News Summary

Fortinet®(NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today unveiled its cutting-edge cybersecurity Innovation Hub in downtown Calgary, Alberta. The new facility reinforces Fortinet’s long-term investment in Canada and reflects the company’s commitment to strengthening cyber resilience and advancing cybersecurity innovation, education, and customer engagement.

 

Having a dedicated, company-owned space in Alberta will enable closer collaboration with customers and partners across the province, providing a modern environment designed for innovation and future growth. The launch of our customer experience centre as part of our Innovation Hub further strengthens this by giving customers direct, hands-on access to our technology and expertise. Together, these investments demonstrate our long-term commitment to Canada and our focus on delivering real, tangible value to the organisations we support.

– Robert May, Executive Vice President, Technology and Product Management at Fortinet

With the support of the Government of Alberta, Invest Alberta, and Calgary Economic Development, Calgary was selected as a strategic location for the facility. It will help meet the growing demand for expertise in protecting critical infrastructure and operational technology. The hub builds on Fortinet’s 26-year presence in Canada and joins the company’s established campuses in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Ottawa, Ontario.

Representing a USD $30 million investment, Fortinet’s eight-story, 122,000-square-foot Calgary cybersecurity hub, acquired in September 2024, supports the Fortinet Cloud point of presence (PoP) strategy. In addition, Fortinet’s workforce growth in Alberta underscores the province’s importance as a hub for cybersecurity talent and innovation.

The Calgary Innovation Hub brings together several purpose-built spaces, including:

• Fortinet Cloud PoP: Powered by Fortinet appliances and enhanced by proprietary ASIC technology for higher performance, improved energy efficiency, and lower costs, the company’s latest PoP will expand its global cloud footprint. This will enable the company to better meet its customers' needs by delivering services, SaaS products, and SASE that provide superior user experience while supporting a strong security posture, significant cost savings, and local regulations and data sovereignty needs.
• Cybersecurity community hub: The cybersecurity community hub features a dedicated lab for demonstrating and validating security solutions designed to help protect critical infrastructure organisations from evolving cyberthreats. It also serves as a resource for Fortinet partners, offering meeting facilities and flexible workspace to support customer engagement and business development in downtown Calgary.
• Customer experience centre: The customer experience centre brings together customers, partners, and industry leaders to engage with Fortinet experts, explore cybersecurity innovations, and discuss strategies for strengthening security and resilience.
• Cybersecurity training facility: Supporting Fortinet’s commitment to helping close the cybersecurity skills gap, the new building provides space for hands-on cybersecurity education, designed to upskill the cybersecurity workforce and expand cybersecurity awareness, fueling innovation in Calgary and beyond.  

As part of Fortinet’s corporate social responsibility and its commitment to Alberta’s talent development, the company is also announcing the new annual Fortinet Award in Computer Science and Engineering with the University of Calgary. Based on academic merit, the awarded student will receive a USD $3,000 scholarship for five years. Through this award, Fortinet supports students pursuing studies in computer science, data science, computer engineering, and software engineering, helping local talent build meaningful careers and contribute to Alberta’s technology sector.

 

Alberta is proud to recognize Fortinet and celebrate this milestone and major investment in the province. Investments like this diversify our economy, build a stronger workforce, and help Alberta withstand global economic uncertainty. We look forward to seeing our technology sector grow and thank Fortinet for the trust they’ve put in Alberta.

– Joseph Schow, Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration of Alberta

Today's announcement marks another important milestone in Alberta's emergence as a global technology and innovation destination. Fortinet's investment brings together cutting-edge cybersecurity capabilities, world-class talent development, and critical digital infrastructure that will serve customers across Canada and around the world. This project showcases what can be achieved through a Team Alberta approach and reinforces our commitment to helping innovative companies choose Alberta to invest, grow, and succeed.

– Keith Bradley, Acting CEO, Invest Alberta

Fortinet's decision to invest in Calgary reflects what more global companies are discovering: this is a place where you can find the talent, partnerships, and momentum to build what’s next. By bringing critical cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure to Calgary, Fortinet is helping create the conditions that allow ambitious companies to grow, scale and have global impact from the Blue Sky City.

– Brad Parry, President and CEO, Calgary Economic Development


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https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2026/fortinet-unveils-new-calgary-cybersecurity-innovation-hub

Fortinet adds AI governance and DLP to FortiEndpoint platform

Fortinet, a provider of enterprise cybersecurity and networking solutions, announced new capabilities for its unified endpoint platform, FortiEndpoint, designed to help organizations securely adopt AI, protect sensitive data, and reduce risk. By bringing AI visibility and control, native data security, endpoint risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations into FortiEndpoint, Fortinet enables security teams to better govern AI usage, reduce sensitive data exposure, enforce risk-aware access, and simplify security operations across distributed environments.

"Organizations need a simpler and more effective way to manage security as their environments become more complex and AI-enabled. The Fortinet Security Fabric is designed to converge critical security and networking functions across the enterprise, helping customers reduce complexity, improve visibility, and strengthen protection. With FortiEndpoint, we are extending that strategy by consolidating security, secure access, data security, AI visibility, and assisted operations in a unified endpoint platform, delivered through one agent, one console, and one license", said Michael Xie, Founder, President, and CTO at Fortinet. 

A Platform Approach to AI-Era Endpoint Security

As agents and AI-enabled applications become embedded in everyday work, organizations need better visibility, stronger governance, and integrated protection to securely enable AI while reducing endpoint risk and protecting sensitive data. These needs are even more urgent as threat actors move faster and use increasingly sophisticated techniques to exploit gaps across users, devices, applications, and data. The pressure security teams are facing is compounded by fragmented tools across protection, detection and response, secure access, and data security, which can slow security teams and limit visibility.

FortiEndpoint builds on the consolidation strategy previewed at Fortinet Accelerate 2026 by bringing AI visibility and governance, endpoint protection, detection and response, secure remote access, native data security, and FortiAI-assisted operations together through one agent, one console, and one license. Through integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric, endpoint telemetry and risk context can inform connected security controls, strengthening adaptive access, policy enforcement, and enterprise-wide visibility.

These capabilities help define Fortinet’s approach to endpoint security for the AI era, advanced through three key areas of innovation:

Securing AI Use at the Endpoint

FortiEndpoint provides centralized visibility and control over sanctioned and unsanctioned AI application and agent usage across endpoints, including installed AI apps, agents, and web-based tools. From a single view, organizations can identify agents and applications in use, monitor adoption, and understand user activity to help surface shadow AI, unmanaged applications, and unauthorized tool usage.

With granular guardrail policies, security teams can allow, restrict, monitor, or block applications based on corporate security, compliance, and data security requirements. This supports responsible AI adoption while reducing the risk of unsanctioned tools, sensitive data exposure, and policy violations.

Reducing AI-Driven Data Exposure and Insider Risk

FortiEndpoint now natively supports DLP to help secure AI interactions and reduce insider risk by automatically inspecting sensitive data exchanged with AI applications, agents, and web services. Built-in user coaching provides real-time policy guidance to help users understand acceptable AI usage and reduce risky behaviors without impacting productivity.

This helps prevent the leakage of sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, intellectual property, and financial information directly at the endpoint. By integrating DLP into FortiEndpoint, organizations can safely adopt AI while maintaining stronger data security and compliance controls without adding another point product or management layer.

Unifying Endpoint Security, Access, Data Security and AI-Assisted Operations

FortiAI-Assist is built into FortiEndpoint to simplify administration and accelerate day-to-day operations. Security teams can use natural language to investigate events, visualize findings, generate investigation summaries, identify high-risk devices, and troubleshoot issues. It also provides contextual insights, policy recommendations, and risk guidance to help analysts strengthen governance, prioritize threats, scale threat hunting, and improve efficiency through a unified management experience.

These assisted workflows are complemented by adaptive zero-trust capabilities with dynamic risk and compliance scoring. By continuously assessing endpoint health, compliance status, and risk posture, FortiEndpoint helps organizations make access decisions based on real-time context, so access to AI applications and protected resources can be adjusted as risk changes. This helps organizations reduce exposure, enforce more consistent policy, and safely support AI-enabled work. 

Industry analysts are also recognizing the importance of this integrated approach as organizations look for practical ways to govern AI use without adding more tools and complexity.

“Fortinet is addressing what many CISOs need now: visibility into AI usage, control over sanctioned and unsanctioned tools, protection against sensitive data leakage, and real-time coaching to help employees use AI responsibly,” said Chris DePuy, Technology Analyst at 650 Group. “Delivering these capabilities through FortiEndpoint gives customers a practical way to manage AI risk with the same agent and license they already rely on for endpoint security.”

Read the blog and listen to the webinar for more detail on how FortiEndpoint helps organizations securely adopt AI, protect sensitive data, reduce risk, and simplify security operations.

Availability

The new FortiEndpoint enhancements are expected to be available in Q3 2026. For more information, visit here.

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https://portalerp.com/za/news/fortinet-adds-ai-governance-and-dlp-to-fortiendpoint-platform

Fortinet Advances Continuous AI Protection with the Acquisition of Virtue AI

 

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced it has acquired Virtue AI, an innovator in AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems. The acquisition advances the company’s broader Security for AI strategy and vision for securing the agentic enterprise, building on Fortinet's existing AI security solution portfolio, including its FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall.

As organizations rapidly deploy AI applications and autonomous agents, their attack surface expands beyond traditional networks, users, endpoints, applications, and cloud workloads. It now includes prompts, models, agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, application programming interface (API) calls, and AI infrastructure. Organizations need to adopt AI with confidence, keep it secure in production, and trust it behaves as intended.

Fortinet met that need earlier this year with FortiAIGate, which safeguards large language models (LLMs) from prompt injections, data leakage, model poisoning, excessive resource consumption, and other emerging AI-specific risks. Virtue AI extends that security to AI models, applications, and agentic systems, from development through runtime, leveraging Virtue AI’s Guardian Agent abilities and key product capabilities, including:

• Agentic system red-teaming: Tests autonomous agents for exploitable weaknesses across more than 50 sandboxed environments and 14 high-stakes domains, including simulated prompt-injection and MCP-based attacks against leading agent frameworks.
• Agent protection, governance, and visibility: Provides full visibility into agents and AI tools running in their environment, discovers unsanctioned AI applications and agents, scans MCP tools and source code for hidden risks, monitors agent behavior, and blocks malicious tool calls before they act.
• Continuous AI validation: Identifies new risks across every model update and fine-tuning of policies, while generating audit-ready evidence to support security and compliance reviews. The automated red-teaming runs across hundreds of attack vectors and more than 1,000 risk categories, with multimodal testing and on-demand reporting for security, risk, and compliance teams.
• Real-time guardrails:  Enforces customizable policies across text, images, video, audio, and AI-generated code to prevent harmful content, sensitive data, jailbreaks, and vulnerable code from reaching users or downstream systems.

“AI is fundamentally changing enterprise computing, and security must evolve just as quickly,” said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer at Fortinet. “Virtue AI’s technology will advance our vision for continuous AI assurance, helping customers govern and protect AI systems throughout their lifecycle while operating them confidently at enterprise scale.”

According to Gartner®, “the market for securing AI ecosystems and AI agents is rapidly expanding; products and tools are expected to expand from $2.8 billion in 2026 to $16.4 billion by 2030.”[1] Fortinet believes that anticipated market expansion reflects evolving industry demand to secure the AI era. 

Customers already rely on the Fortinet AI-native Security Fabric for integrated protection across networks, endpoints, clouds, applications, and AI deployments. This acquisition complements FortiAIGate and further strengthens Fortinet’s AI runtime security capabilities with Virtue AI’s automated validation and real-time protection. Combined with coordinated enforcement and FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence, it will give organizations the confidence to secure AI systems throughout their lifecycle. 

Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed, and the amount paid by Fortinet as consideration is immaterial to Fortinet’s business. 

 

Additional Resources

• Read more about the Fortinet AI-Native Security Fabric. 
• Learn how Fortinet secures the AI Application Stack with FortiAIGate.
• Visit fortinet.com/trust to learn more about Fortinet innovation, collaboration partners, product security processes, and enterprise-grade products. 
• Follow Fortinet on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Subscribe to Fortinet on our blog or YouTube.

 

GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

[1] Gartner, Forecasting the $16.4 Billion Opportunity in Securing AI, Shailendra Upadhyay, 30 July 2026

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https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2026/fortinet-advances-continuous-ai-protection-with-the-acquisition-of-virtue-ai

Diving Into Fortinet's Unified Agentic AI Platform FortiSOC

Fortinet launches FortiSOC, an AI-powered cloud platform that unifies security operations, automates threat response and reduces complexity
Calling on the power of agentic AI, Fortinet has unveiled FortiSOC – a new cloud-delivered security operations centre (SOC) platform designed to help organisations simplify cyber defence while improving threat detection and response. 
This novel software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform binds together six key security operations capabilities into a single console, embedding agentic AI to manage investigations, automate workflows and respond to threats more efficiently.
It is no secret that cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, thereby creating an explosion of investigation volume, while many organisations struggle with fragmented security tools that add to operational complexity. 
FortiSOC addresses this challenge by combining security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR), threat intelligence and identity threat detection into one unified platform.
 “Security teams today are being challenged by faster attacks, growing investigation volume and fragmented operations that simply don’t scale,” says Michael Xie, Founder, President and CTO at Fortinet.
“FortiSOC gives organisations a simpler way to operationalise the SOC capabilities they need through a unified, cloud-delivered platform designed to support security teams of all sizes, from teams building foundational capabilities to enterprises scaling advanced SOC environments. 
“With embedded AI, integrated workflows and built-in best practices informed by Fortinet’s own global security operations center, FortiSOC delivers the power of an AI SOC to help customers eliminate complexity, automate threat detection and response and stay a step ahead of attackers.”
Supporting all stages of the SOC 
Designed in a one tool fits all model, FortiSOC has been crafted to meet the needs of organisations regardless of their security maturity. 
Smaller teams can establish foundational monitoring capabilities while larger enterprises can scale advanced security operations with deeper automation and AI-assisted investigations.
A notable addition is the FortiAI-Assist, which is capable of delivering autonomous investigations, AI-generated playbooks and coordinated agentic workflows using Model Context Protocol (MCP). 

FortiSOC, the unified platform for modern SOC | Credit: Fortinet
With enterprise-wide telemetry and FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence, the platform helps security teams automate repetitive tasks while maintaining visibility and control across security and IT environments.
The platform also includes out-of-the-box detection methods, response playbooks and regular threat intelligence updates based on Fortinet's own global SOC operations. 
Native integrations across the Fortinet Security Fabric, alongside thousands of third-party connectors, further enable organisations to automate detection and response across diverse technology environments.
Expanding security operations portfolio
FortiSOC complements Fortinet's existing security operations portfolio, including FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM and FortiSOAR. 
While these "existing best-of-breed solutions" will continue to be available and enhanced, the new platform provides customers with an integrated cloud-first option that combines their capabilities into a single operating model.
The launch comes at a time when organisations increasingly seek cloud-delivered SOC platforms that reduce tool sprawl, improve analyst productivity and accelerate incident response.
“IDC research shows that organizations are increasingly prioritising analyst workflow and investigation experience as well as cloud-delivered security operations as they work to improve visibility, streamline processes and accelerate response,” says Michelle Abraham, Senior Research Director, Security and Trust at IDC.
“FortiSOC builds on Fortinet’s established security operations portfolio by combining proven technologies into a unified SaaS platform that can support both foundational and advanced SOC use cases.”
By combining AI-driven automation, unified workflows and cloud-native delivery, Fortinet aims to help organisations modernise security operations while reducing complexity and improving resilience against today's rapidly evolving cyber threats.
 
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https://cybermagazine.com/news/diving-into-fortinets-unified-agentic-ai-platform-fortisoc

Intel and Fortinet Collaborate to Advance Cybersecurity Innovation and Strengthen Global Supply Chain Resilience

Intel Corporation and Fortinet, today announced a strategic collaboration to develop Fortinet Security Processor 6 (SP6). Expanding a long-standing relationship between the two companies, this collaboration combines Fortinet’s proprietary, purpose-built security processor expertise with Intel’s advanced design, packaging, and manufacturing capabilities to accelerate and strengthen SP6 development. This work will also help to improve the resilience and diversity of Fortinet’s global supply chain.

“As organizations face a rapidly evolving threat landscape, security infrastructure must deliver both performance and innovation at scale. This collaboration demonstrates how Intel’s semiconductor leadership and advanced design, packaging, and manufacturing capabilities can help cybersecurity leaders like Fortinet accelerate the development of critical security technologies while building a more resilient and diversified global supply chain.” said Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel

“Fortinet’s purpose-built ASICs have been a key differentiator for more than two decades, enabling us to deliver the security effectiveness, performance, and efficiency our customers demand. This expanded relationship with Intel will leverage its unique combination of advanced semiconductor technology, manufacturing expertise, and global supply chain capabilities, helping Fortinet accelerate and strengthen our ASIC strategy, while also better supporting organizations all over the world.” said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fortinet

In addition to bringing together Fortinet’s leadership in purpose-built security processors with Intel’s broad portfolio of ecosystem IP, proven expertise in disaggregated semiconductor design, and advanced packaging solutions tailored for both AI-enabled and cost-sensitive applications, this collaboration aims to deliver a highly integrated security processor capable of supporting increasingly sophisticated security services and the demanding performance requirements of today’s organizations.

The companies will explore additional opportunities to further deepen collaboration across semiconductor technology, manufacturing, and the infrastructure underpinning future cybersecurity innovation. This work is expected to advance Fortinet’s long-term ASIC roadmap, support greater performance and service richness, and strengthen supply chain assurance for customers worldwide.

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https://www.itvoice.in/intel-and-fortinet-collaborate-to-advance-cybersecurity-innovation-and-strengthen-global-supply-chain-resilience

Fortinet’s new FortiGate platform converges firewall, SASE technologies

New FortiGate 1200G series with FortiSASE Outpost brings threat protection and cloud-delivered SASE to on-premises environments.

 

Fortinet has expanded its firewall family with new high-speed boxes that, when combined with the vendor’s FortiSASE Outpost software, extend cloud-based SASE (secure access service edge) capabilities and policy enforcement to on-premises environments.

The new midrange FortiGate 1200G series supports 10G, 25G, and 100G connectivity options and delivers 397 Gbps firewall throughput. It’s aimed at securing campus, data center, and hybrid environments that need to inspect large volumes of encrypted traffic without sacrificing performance, according to Fortinet. The 1200G fills the gap between Fortinet’s campus, edge, and branch appliances, such as the 400G, and its flagship data center platforms like the 3500G.

The new boxes run the vendor’s recently announced FortiOS 8.0 operating system, which includes new capabilities such as AI-assisted operations, enhanced Security Fabric integration, networking features, and SASE-related enhancements. One of those SASE-related features – FortiSASE Outpost – is enabled by FortiOS 8.0. 

When configured as a FortiSASE Outpost, the 1200G can be deployed as a local SASE point of presence (POP), extending SASE enforcement closer to users and applications in customer-controlled locations, such as on-premises sites, private data centers, or colocation facilities, while maintaining centralized cloud management, according to Fortinet. Users can maintain local enforcement where needed without building separate stacks, the vendor stated.

The FortiSASE interface centrally manages configuration, policy, monitoring, lifecycle operations, and upgrades across both deployment models, maintaining consistent zero-trust policies, visibility and protection without treating the on-site POP as a separate security environment. In addition customers can keep designated traffic, logs, and processing within defined geographic or private infrastructure boundaries to meet regulatory requirements and reduce connectivity costs without changing the end-user experience, Fortinet stated.

“As AI adoption, encrypted traffic, and hybrid infrastructure reshape enterprise networks, organizations need to inspect growing traffic volumes without introducing performance bottlenecks,” Fortinet stated. “They also need the flexibility to determine where security enforcement occurs based on application performance, data sovereignty, compliance, and operational requirements.”

The FortiGate 1200G competes most closely with enterprise firewalls from vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point and HPE/Juniper.

FortiGate 1200G is expected to be available in Q3 2026.

source:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/4202426/fortinets-new-fortigate-platform-converges-firewall-sase-technologies.html

Fortinet launches FortiGate 1200G with FortiSASE Outpost for advanced hybrid security and AI-ready firewall performance

Fortinet introduced the FortiGate 1200G series with FortiSASE Outpost, combining high-performance ASIC-powered firewall protection with cloud-delivered SASE security in customer-controlled environments. This solution supports hybrid infrastructures, enabling consistent, low-latency security enforcement on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud, tailored for AI-driven traffic and encrypted data. The FortiGate 1200G offers flexible connectivity and enhanced operational resilience, while FortiSASE Outpost allows local security inspection to reduce latency and meet data sovereignty requirements. Available in Q3 2026, this innovation addresses growing enterprise needs for scalable, adaptable security architectures in hybrid and AI-centric networks.

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https://pluang.com/en/news-feed/fortinet-perluas-seri-fortigate-1200g-dan-fortisase-outpost