Fortinet Expands AI Tools to Tackle Security Risks and Monitor GenAI Use

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New Delhi: Fortinet has expanded its FortiAI tools across its Security Fabric platform to support automated threat detection, secure AI adoption, and ease analyst workload.

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has introduced a set of new AI-driven features under its FortiAI platform, now integrated across its Security Fabric. The company aims to improve threat detection, streamline security operations, and help organisations monitor the use of AI-based tools such as GenAI services.

Focus on AI Security and Threat Response
With the use of AI becoming widespread in both enterprise operations and cyberattacks, Fortinet’s latest upgrades address two growing concerns: the increasing sophistication of AI-led cyber threats and the risk of enterprise AI systems being compromised.

The updated FortiAI suite supports proactive threat management by using AI to detect, trace, and analyse security incidents. It also extends protections to AI systems themselves, helping organisations secure large language models (LLMs) and AI algorithms from manipulation, data poisoning, and unauthorised access.

Key Features: Automation and Autonomous Operations
Under the new rollout, Fortinet has introduced FortiAI-Assist, a feature that combines generative AI, agentic AI, and AIOps. The tool focuses on automation in both network and security operations.

Some notable capabilities include:

Agentic AI for Network Management: Enables AI-assisted configuration updates, policy validation, and issue remediation without human intervention. It also offers predictive issue resolution using AIOps for SD-WAN, wireless, and wired networks.

AI in Security Operations: Introduces automated alert triage, adaptive threat hunting, and AI-driven root-cause tracing. These features are designed to reduce analyst fatigue and improve response accuracy.

Threat Intelligence Enrichment: Uses pattern correlation and behaviour analysis to enhance threat detection capabilities and identify tactics used by attackers.

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Fortinet Launches FortiSOC, a Unified SOC Platform Powered by Agentic AI

New cloud-delivered SOC platform brings together six core security operations functions into a single AI SOC experience designed to simplify and scale modern security operations

June 16, 2026 09:00 ET  | Source: Fortinet, Inc.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced the availability of FortiSOC, a unified, cloud-delivered security operations center (SOC) platform. FortiSOC brings together six security operations functions into a single Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) experience and embeds agentic AI to autonomously investigate and correlate alerts across assets and identities, then recommend or execute response actions under analyst oversight. Built on Fortinet’s proven security operations (SecOps) technologies, FortiSOC helps organizations simplify and scale modern operations through one console, one subscription, and one unified operating model.

“Security teams today are being challenged by faster attacks, growing investigation volume, and fragmented operations that simply don’t scale,” said Michael Xie Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet. “FortiSOC gives organizations a simpler way to operationalize 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.”

One Unified Platform for Modern Security Operations
FortiSOC is designed to simplify how organizations operationalize security operations by unifying security information and event management (SIEM); security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR); threat intelligence; and behavioral and identity threat detection (ITDR) into a single platform. With agentic AI and FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence, FortiSOC extends the SecOps innovations introduced at Fortinet Accelerate 2026 by integrating analytics, investigation, automation, and response workflows into a single cloud-delivered experience for modern environments. FortiSOC enables security teams to move from alert to investigation to response with reduced friction, fewer operational silos, and stronger cross-environment visibility.

Support for Every Stage of the SOC Journey
FortiSOC is designed to support organizations at every stage of SecOps adoption, from resource-constrained teams establishing foundational monitoring capabilities to highly sophisticated and advanced SOC teams requiring deeper automation, broader correlation, and AI-assisted investigation at scale.

Based on proven Fortinet technologies, FortiSOC extends this journey through a cloud-delivered approach that combines advanced cyber defense, essential network operations center (NOC) and IT visibility, and adaptable workflows that can expand with customer needs. Organizations can use it to establish a streamlined entry into SecOps, modernize legacy approaches, or scale large or mature environments without changing direction as requirements evolve.

FortiAI-Assist further differentiates FortiSOC by applying autonomous investigation, AI-generated playbooks, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-powered agent coordination across alerts, investigations, threat hunting, cases, and response actions. Leveraging enterprise-wide telemetry and threat intelligence, FortiAI-Assist helps coordinate activity across tools, workflows, and teams within the same platform. Security teams can tailor processes, coordinate activity across security and IT systems, involve stakeholders across departments, and extend use cases over time while maintaining the speed, consistency, and control required in modern environments.

Key benefits include:

• One platform, total control: Unify SIEM, SOAR, user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), case management, threat intelligence, ITDR, and AI-driven operations into a single SaaS platform. FortiSOC gives security teams the speed of AI, consistency, and clarity to stay ahead of threats without the overhead of managing multiple tools.
• One subscription, zero complexity, better ROI: A single console and subscription model helps reduce procurement complexity, streamline day-to-day operations, and improve resource allocation so security teams can focus on the most important objective: stopping threats.
• Ready on day one, prepared for what comes next: Best-practice content for detection methods, playbooks, and more based on Fortinet’s own global SOC operations are available out-of-the-box. FortiGuard Labs real-time threat intelligence, outbreak alerts, and monthly content updates allow organizations to keep pace with the speed and sophistication of today’s threat actors.
• Connected by design, ready to scale: Native integrations across the entire Fortinet Security Fabric and thousands of third-party connectors eliminate coverage gaps and help organizations automate detection and response across security, IT, and business systems. MCP support extends this reach to diverse environments, allowing FortiAI-Assist to operate, orchestrate, and coordinate various AI capabilities and tasks throughout FortiSOC, minimizing manual handoffs that slow remediation.

Extending the Fortinet SOC Platform
FortiSOC complements and expands the broader Fortinet SOC Platform portfolio of FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, and FortiSOAR by uniting and extending these capabilities for customers who prefer a single cloud-based SOC platform model. These existing best-of-breed solutions will continue to be enhanced and available. Together, these solutions comprise the Fortinet SOC Platform, which delivers flexible pathways and purchase options tailored to meet customer needs today and offering them a smooth pathway for future evolution.

As organizations modernize SecOps, analysts continue to see growing demand for integrated, cloud-delivered SOC platforms that simplify operations and reduce tool sprawl.

“IDC research shows that organizations are increasingly prioritizing analyst workflow and investigation experience as well as cloud-delivered security operations as they work to improve visibility, streamline processes, and accelerate response,” said Michelle Abraham, Senior Research Director, Security and Trust, 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.”


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OT cybersecurity becomes a board-level priority as industrial security maturity rises, Fortinet finds

New data from Fortinet‘s 2025 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report found that industrial organizations are steadily maturing their OT security programs, with responsibility increasingly shifting to executive leadership. More than half of surveyed organizations now place OT cybersecurity under the CISO or CSO, up from 16% in 2022, while 80% plan to move OT security under CISO oversight within the next year. The report suggests that OT risk is becoming a board-level concern as organizations seek stronger governance over increasingly connected cyber-physical environments. 

The study identified a correlation between higher OT security maturity and reduced operational impact from cyber incidents. Organizations reporting more advanced security practices, including segmentation, threat intelligence integration, and automation, experienced fewer attacks and lower business disruption. 

While nearly half of respondents still reported cyber incidents affecting operations, the percentage of intrusions leading to revenue-impacting outages fell from 52% to 42%. At the same time, 46% of organizations reported reaching the highest level of OT security maturity, reflecting broader industry efforts to strengthen resilience across critical infrastructure and industrial operations. 

“Industrial organizations now rely on interconnected systems, remote access, cloud-based analytics, and unified IT and OT environments to maintain production,” Richard Springer, senior director for marketing OT solutions at Fortinet, wrote in a Tuesday blog post. “While this advanced connectivity offers increased efficiency and resilience, it has also enlarged the attack surface for cybercriminals, ransomware groups, and nation-state actors.”

He added that the 2026 Fortinet State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report shows that organizations are becoming more diligent in addressing these risks. “The report highlights a market that is increasingly realistic about OT cybersecurity maturity, more alert to intrusions, and more dedicated to meeting upcoming regulatory requirements.”

Springer mentioned that the good news is that many organizations are making progress. The challenge, however, is that maturity levels vary, with many OT environments still facing major issues with visibility, segmentation, secure remote access, incident response, and standardized security architecture.

Responsibility for OT cybersecurity remained largely concentrated with CISOs and CIOs, though the proportion of organizations reporting such oversight declined from 69% in 2025 to 60% in 2026. “Signaling an increase in maturity, the C-suite has mitigated OT risk to the point of delegating OT cybersecurity responsibility back down to senior leadership roles. Those respondents who do not have elevated OT risk yet still need specialized knowledge and leadership to address the increasing number of sophisticated threats.” 

The report revealed that for the fifth consecutive year, the number of respondents who intend to move OT cybersecurity under the CISO in the next 12 months increased from 80% in 2025 to 81% in 2026. These changes indicate a solidifying of the importance of OT risk ownership in the C-suite.

Fortinet identified that organizations have reassessed their OT cybersecurity maturity as greater executive oversight, increased funding, and advanced security tools exposed previously unseen gaps. While earlier self-assessments often placed programs at maturity levels 3 and 4, many now recognize lower actual maturity and are focusing on foundational controls such as asset visibility, access management, and network segmentation.

Process maturity data shows that many organizations remain in reactive mode. The share of respondents at level 0 increased from 1% to 5%, while levels 1 and 2 rose from 5% to 17% and 13% to 27%, respectively. Level 3 organizations grew modestly, while level 4 respondents dropped sharply from 49% to 17%. The report views this decline as a positive recalibration, reflecting more realistic assessments driven by improved expertise, broader teams, and better visibility into security weaknesses.

“A positive indicator of increasing cybersecurity maturity is that teams are now reporting greater visibility of intrusions as opposed to reporting none,” according to the report. “In this year’s report, the declining numbers of respondents saying they had detected zero intrusions may point to a greater ability to detect intrusions rather than a real decline in the volume of successful attacks. At the top end, organizations that have had more than 10 intrusions in the year stayed steady at just 2%.” 

However, the report observed that the number of respondents reporting multiple attacks (one to nine incidents) has increased from previous years, totaling 71%, up from 47%.

Moving on to laws, regulations, and compliance mandates, Fortinet identified that it continues to be a challenge for IT and OT leaders. “Increasingly, these leaders want to get ahead of governance cycles and learn about potential pending rule changes that may impact data protection, cybersecurity, health, safety, and other factors.”

Last year, some respondents expected new regulations in a few years, but now the vast majority of respondents predict new regulations will be coming soon. These new regulations will increase cybersecurity demands, but also will improve network reliability and resilience. In 2026, almost nine out of 10 respondents (89%) expect increased regulation in five years or less. This number is up sharply from 66% in 2025. 

Regarding timing, there was a 20-point shift in respondents now anticipating new regulations in two to five years as opposed to over five years, suggesting that respondents want to prepare for IT and OT regulatory compliance challenges as they relate to cybersecurity.

The report highlights that while cybersecurity has become a board-level priority across industries, OT security is increasingly receiving the same level of executive attention. Although the CISO remains a central figure, responsibility for cybersecurity in 2026 is more broadly distributed across non-technical vice presidents and C-suite leaders, reflecting its growing business impact.

At the same time, organizations are placing greater emphasis on cost efficiency amid tighter budgets. Cost reduction and avoidance became the top cybersecurity performance metric in 2026, rising from second place the previous year. Despite increased pressure to demonstrate value, organizations continue to prioritize operational resilience and security in the face of elevated cyber risk. The report also found growing expectations of new regulatory requirements, driving an increase in compliance and regulatory reporting as a key cybersecurity objective.

“Attacker dwell time measures how long attackers spend undetected. This critical key performance indicator (KPI) also often reflects how much damage attackers can inflict because it’s easier for attackers to perform malicious tasks before they’re detected,” Fortinet reported. “Our survey suggests that although there is some flattening of dwell times of minutes, hours or days, attacks with longer dwell times of weeks, or even months, have increased. These long dwell times leave enterprises open to surveillance, loss of IP, and increase the risk of a ransom event or physical disruption.”

Fortinet found that respondents appear to be refreshing their ICS systems, with 40% reporting that their systems are under five years old, a sharp increase from 2025 (20%) and previous years. This rise points to a healthy attitude toward the benefits of modernization and transformation. Those organizations with aging 11-year-old or older systems should upgrade soon, or if refreshing the systems isn’t feasible, they should adhere to a strict patching and monitoring schedule.

The report identifies network segmentation and microsegmentation as foundational elements of an effective OT cybersecurity strategy. Organizations that separate IT and OT environments and enforce granular communication controls are better positioned to limit lateral movement, improve asset visibility, and reduce the impact of cyber incidents. 

The company also recommends adopting secure remote access technologies that apply zero-trust principles, enabling third-party maintenance while minimizing the risks associated with traditional VPN-based connectivity. Together, these measures help industrial organizations strengthen security, improve compliance, and reduce operational risk in environments where legacy systems and limited patching options remain common.

Fortinet also emphasizes the importance of integrating OT into broader security operations and incident response planning. As cybersecurity responsibility increasingly shifts to CISOs and executive leadership, organizations are encouraged to develop incident response playbooks that account for production systems, plant operations, and OT-specific risks. 

The report further recommends investing in OT-focused threat intelligence to improve visibility into emerging threats and industrial attack techniques. To simplify increasingly complex security environments, Fortinet advocates a platform-based approach that consolidates security capabilities across IT and OT, providing centralized management, improved visibility, automated response capabilities, and the potential to leverage AI-driven insights for faster threat detection and remediation.

In conclusion, Fortinet reported that only by defining and defending key operational assets and ensuring their performance can businesses compete in the global marketplace and governments protect their citizens. “Although the convergence of IT and OT can be a powerful driver of innovation, it requires a strong commitment to implementing cybersecurity defenses, hiring, and strategic thinking. Because many OT devices are more than 20 years old and unsecure by design, creating a secure OT environment is extremely challenging for many organizations.” 

However, Fortinet said it sees signs that more organizations are making progress and better assessing their OT security posture. “These efforts are paying off in greater awareness of intrusions and a lower overall volume of intrusions. As the 2026 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report shows, companies with higher OT maturity security levels are improving their numbers substantially. To continue this positive trend, everyone from the C-suite on down must commit to protecting sensitive OT systems and allocate the necessary resources to secure critical operations.”

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https://industrialcyber.co/industrial-cyber-attacks/ot-cybersecurity-becomes-a-board-level-priority-as-industrial-security-maturity-rises-fortinet-finds/

Fortinet expands FortiGate G series to secure AI from the data centre to modern enterprise edges

Fortinet announced new additions to its FortiGate G series portfolio, designed to help organisations secure and scale modern enterprise networks. The FortiGate 3500G and FortiGate 400G deliver high-performance security that keeps pace with growing encrypted traffic, AI-driven workloads, and distributed environments, enabling organisations to strengthen protection, maintain performance, and simplify operations across hybrid infrastructures. Powered by Fortinet’s NP7 and SP5 processors and the FortiOS operating system, the new series combines advanced threat protection, integrated intelligence, and hardware-enforced security. 

“Organisations modernising their infrastructures for AI-driven workloads and increasingly distributed environments need security platforms that can deliver both performance and protection at scale,” said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer at Fortinet. “The expansion of our FortiGate G series reflects our commitment to helping customers simplify their architectures, reduce complexity, and protect their AI deployments from the data centre to the enterprise edge.”

Bringing AI visibility and control to high-performance security

With encrypted traffic, east-west data flows, and AI-driven threats accelerating, traditional firewall architectures are reaching their limits, forcing organisations to choose between performance and security. The FortiGate G series eliminates that trade-off with a unified platform built on Fortinet’s custom ASIC acceleration, delivering predictable, high-performance security, integrated threat intelligence, and consistent operations across hybrid environments.

FortiGate 3500G and 400G extend Fortinet’s AI-driven Security Fabric with native shadow AI detection, providing real-time visibility into unsanctioned usage across AI applications while enforcing controls to protect sensitive data. FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services apply continuously updated intelligence and machine learning to identify and prioritise threats and automate protection, with FortiOS 8.0 expanding visibility through MCP and agent-to-agent traffic inspection for deeper control over AI data flows and access.

FortiGate 3500G: Built for the next era of data centre scale and trust

The FortiGate 3500G series is built for the next era of data centre scale and performance, where AI workloads, east-west traffic growth, and zero-trust requirements are redefining how infrastructure operates. Security is no longer a checkpoint—it is foundational to performance, scale, and trust.

Designed for this shift, the 3500G delivers 400Gb connectivity, advanced ASIC acceleration, and significant performance gains to secure high-density environments without introducing bottlenecks or requiring architectural redesign. It also addresses a growing gap in the market: trust in the security infrastructure itself. With hardware-level validation, secure firmware enforcement, and system-level transparency, the platform enables organisations to move from assumed trust to verified trust.

By tightly integrating security enforcement with SOC operations and maintaining familiar form factors, the FortiGate 3500G enables organisations to scale critical infrastructure, simplify operations, and deploy high-performance security with confidence.

FortiGate 400G: Modernising the enterprise edge without disruption

Extending these capabilities to the enterprise edge, the FortiGate 400G series modernises the mid-range firewall segment by bringing G-series performance, architecture, and operational consistency to distributed environments.

As applications span data centres, cloud, and edge, and encrypted and east-west traffic continue to surge, many legacy firewalls struggle to maintain performance when advanced security services are enabled, creating trade-offs between protection and efficiency. The FortiGate 400G eliminates compromises with consistent, hardware-accelerated performance, integrated threat intelligence, and a platform designed to support high-density traffic and segmentation-driven security without added complexity.

With a simplified upgrade path from existing FortiGate deployments and consistent interfaces across the portfolio, the 400G enables organisations to modernise their network edge, standardise operations, and scale security with predictable performance and minimal disruption.

– Threat protection performance is measured with firewall, IPS, application control and malware protection, and logging enabled.

– The numbers for competitive solutions are based on publicly available sources. Variations in testing methodologies and performance metrics may exist across different vendors.

– All power consumption values are taken from external data sheets and hardware system guides using maximum power consumption.

A unified platform for secure networking

Together, these additions reinforce Fortinet’s platform-driven approach, anchored by a single operating system, centralised management, and AI-driven threat intelligence and security capabilities. By integrating FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiGuard Labs intelligence into a unified Security Fabric, Fortinet enables organisations to reduce tool sprawl, improve visibility, and accelerate threat detection and response while lowering total cost of ownership.

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https://www.expresscomputer.in/news/fortinet-expands-fortigate-g-series-to-secure-ai-from-the-data-centre-to-modern-enterprise-edges/135181/

Fortinet Deepens Integration with NVIDIA to Uniquely Secure Enterprise AI at Scale

May 18, 2026

 

 

 

Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, is accelerating the FortiAIGate solution with NVIDIA’s AI platforms and software technologies—protecting AI workloads, data, and autonomous agents in real time in data centers and the cloud, enabling organizations monitor AI usage, and securely build, deploy, and scale agentic AI without compromising performance or governance.

The solution’s inline deployment provides visibility while supporting data sovereignty requirements, delivering high-performance protection with minimal latency, according to the companies.

“The accelerating shift toward autonomous AI agents is creating unprecedented demand for secure, high-performance enterprise computing platforms. By integrating its FortiAIGate solution with the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform, Fortinet provides zero-trust security and real-time governance, reducing threat exposure by shortening response times,” said Justin Boitano, vice president, enterprise AI platforms, NVIDIA.

Business benefits of FortiAIGate for AI-driven enterprises include:

• Accelerated, safe AI runtime: FortiAIGate provides a secure foundation for organizations to rapidly adopt AI-driven applications and autonomous agents. It applies security guardrails for large language models (LLMs) at runtime and protects the ecosystem behind it, including MCP servers and AI agents. Accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and NVIDIA Hopper with the latest open-source, distributed inference-serving framework NVIDIA Dynamo, it operates at high performance so businesses can harness AI productivity gains without incurring unnecessary latency, slowdowns, or service degradation.
• AI sovereignty: With its self-hosting deployment modes, FortiAIGate enables organizations to develop, deploy, and govern AI using their own infrastructure, data, and workforce, ensuring compliance with local laws and security requirements, utilizing NVIDIA Nemotron safety models. FortiAIGate monitors user and device interactions, logging the actual prompt and response of any suspicious incident.
• Zero-trust AI environments: FortiAIGate extends zero-trust security principles to AI environments, preventing LLM abuse and data leakage. It manages all AI model traffic and enforces strict guardrails on inputs and outputs, blocking threats like prompt injection attacks on LLMs and filtering toxic or unauthorized content generated by AI.
• Operational efficiency and lower TCO: Built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, FortiAIGate delivers high-throughput AI security with a fraction of the hardware footprint and energy use of traditional CPU-bound solutions. This means organizations can achieve low-latency protection for AI-powered applications without slowing them down, all while reducing server load and power consumption.
• Scalable multitenant protection: FortiAIGate is architected for scale-out AI deployments and multitenant environments common in enterprises and AI data centers. It uses NVIDIA virtualization techniques to securely partition resources and isolate different AI workloads or customer datasets on the same hardware.

FortiAIGate supports flexible deployment across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. It is available as a GPU-powered appliance for data centers or as a virtual appliance or as containers on NVIDIA-Certified Systems. Regardless of form factor, organizations benefit from consistent protection and centralized management. Its inline deployment between applications and AI models also helps meet data sovereignty requirements.

For more information about this news, visit www.fortinet.com.

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Fortinet unveils AI-powered security operations platform to combat rising cyber threats

Global cybersecurity leader Fortinet has introduced a major upgrade to its Security Operations (SecOps) Platform, unveiling a new wave of AI-powered innovations designed to help enterprises combat increasingly sophisticated cyber threats driven by artificial intelligence.

Announced during Fortinet Accelerate 2026, the latest enhancements bring together unified cloud-based Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities, agentic AI workflows, managed detection and response services, and expanded endpoint security under a single integrated Security Fabric architecture.

The company said the latest developments are aimed at helping organizations modernize their security operations as cybercriminals increasingly use AI to accelerate attacks, automate reconnaissance, and exploit vulnerabilities faster than ever before.

“As attackers weaponize AI to accelerate reconnaissance, exploit development, and social engineering, security operations must function with the same speed and coordination,” said Ken Xie. “Fortinet is advancing a unified, AI-powered security operations platform that provides a scalable operating architecture across our defense framework.”

At the center of the announcement is FortiSOC, a new cloud-delivered platform currently in preview that consolidates the capabilities of FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, FortiSOAR, and FortiTIP into a single integrated service. The platform is designed to simplify security operations by combining log ingestion, analytics, automation, case management, and threat intelligence into one unified console.

Fortinet also expanded FortiAI, moving beyond traditional AI copilots toward what it calls “agentic execution” — enabling AI-driven workflows that can autonomously perform alert triage, threat hunting, investigations, and response actions across security environments.

The company noted that the platform integrates telemetry from both Fortinet and third-party systems, allowing organizations to maintain visibility across increasingly complex hybrid and multicloud environments.

To strengthen managed security coverage, Fortinet also upgraded its FortiGuard SOC-as-a-Service offering. The enhancements now include support for third-party log monitoring, expanded Security Fabric integrations, FortiNDR telemetry, and deeper cloud visibility through FortiCNAPP.

Meanwhile, Fortinet introduced significant improvements to FortiEndpoint, its endpoint security solution, aimed at reducing operational complexity while improving protection against AI-enabled threats and unauthorized AI application usage.

The upgraded FortiEndpoint platform now unifies multiple security functions — including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) — into a single agent and management console.

Fortinet said the integrated approach is intended to help organizations reduce “agent sprawl,” simplify licensing and administration, and strengthen overall cyber resilience.

With cyberattacks becoming faster, more automated, and increasingly difficult to detect, Fortinet believes enterprises need security operations platforms capable of responding in real time across endpoints, networks, cloud systems, email, and identities.

The latest innovations, according to the company, aim to give security teams faster visibility, streamlined investigations, and smarter automated response capabilities — all within a single architecture built to defend against AI-driven cyber threats at scale.

 

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https://thechronicle.com.ph/fortinet-unveils-ai-powered-security-operations-platform-to-combat-rising-cyber-threats/

Fortinet launches new firewalls for AI traffic control

JOSEPH GABRIEL LAGONSINNews Editor

Fortinet has expanded its FortiGate G Series with the FortiGate 3500G and FortiGate 400G, two firewalls aimed at securing AI-related traffic across data centres and enterprise edge networks.

The launch comes as companies contend with rising volumes of encrypted traffic, more east-west data movement within networks, and wider use of AI tools across distributed systems.

The two systems are designed to address a common challenge in corporate networks: the performance hit that can occur when advanced inspection and security controls are enabled. Fortinet is positioning the 3500G for data centre environments and the 400G for enterprise edge deployments in the mid-range firewall segment.

Both products run on Fortinet's FortiOS software and use its NP7 and SP5 processors. They combine traffic inspection, threat intelligence, and hardware-based integrity controls in a single platform.

AI focus

A central part of the expansion is greater oversight of AI use inside organisations. Fortinet says the FortiGate 3500G and 400G include native shadow AI detection, giving security teams visibility into unsanctioned use of AI applications and controls to protect sensitive data.

Its FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services are used to identify and prioritise threats and automate protection measures. FortiOS 8.0 adds inspection of MCP and agent-to-agent traffic, intended to give customers closer control over AI-related data flows and access.

The data centre model is built around high-capacity connectivity and hardware-based trust features. Fortinet says the 3500G offers 400Gb connectivity and is aimed at organisations facing rising internal traffic volumes, zero-trust requirements, and heavier AI workloads in dense environments.

It also includes hardware-level validation, secure firmware enforcement, and system-level transparency measures designed to help customers verify the integrity of their security infrastructure rather than rely on assumed trust.

Edge systems

At the enterprise edge, the 400G is intended as an upgrade path for existing FortiGate users seeking newer hardware without a major operational change. The model keeps interface consistency across the wider portfolio, which could make it easier for network and security teams to standardise administration across sites.

The 400G is designed for distributed environments where applications span data centres, cloud systems, and edge locations. In those settings, older firewalls can struggle to maintain throughput when inspection features such as intrusion prevention, application control, and malware protection are enabled.

Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer at Fortinet, linked the launch to broader changes in enterprise infrastructure.

"Organisations modernizing their infrastructures for AI-driven workloads and increasingly distributed environments need security platforms that can deliver both performance and protection at scale," said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet.

He said the latest additions are intended to help customers simplify how they build and protect those environments.

"The expansion of our FortiGate G series reflects our commitment to helping customers simplify their architectures, reduce complexity, and protect their AI deployments from the data center to the enterprise edge," said Xie.

Single platform

The launch also highlights Fortinet's long-standing effort to bring networking and security functions together under a single management and operating framework. The two new systems sit within its broader Security Fabric approach, which combines FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyser, and threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs.

That structure is intended to give organisations a central way to manage policy, visibility, and incident response across hybrid environments. For large companies running separate systems across branch sites, campuses, cloud deployments, and data centres, this kind of consolidation is often presented as a way to reduce the number of security tools in use and simplify operations.

Fortinet did not disclose pricing. It said performance comparisons in its materials were based on firewall, intrusion prevention, application control, malware protection, and logging being enabled, while competitor figures were drawn from publicly available information.

Power consumption figures in its comparison materials were taken from external data sheets and hardware guides using maximum power consumption values.

For buyers, the significance of the new models will depend on whether they can maintain inspection rates as AI traffic and encrypted workloads continue to grow inside corporate networks. Fortinet says the products are intended to let organisations apply tighter controls across hybrid infrastructure while keeping operations consistent from the data centre to the edge.

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https://securitybrief.com.au/story/fortinet-launches-new-firewalls-for-ai-traffic-control