FortiAI: Advancing Enterprise Security in the Age of Intelligent Threats

As artificial intelligence reshapes the business and technology landscape, it brings both a wealth of opportunity and unforeseen risks. Enterprises are now contending with a rising tide of AI-driven cyberattacks that are faster, more evasive, and increasingly difficult to detect. At the same time, organizations adopting AI must also secure their own AI models, systems, and data from manipulation, leakage, and misuse. 

Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader, is addressing this dual challenge with significant enhancements to its FortiAI platform. Now fully integrated across the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiAI is delivering intelligent automation, adaptive threat defense, and embedded protection for AI-enabled services, providing a comprehensive security foundation for modern, AI-powered enterprises. 

Embedded Intelligence Across the Fortinet Security Fabric 

Fortinet’s AI strategy is built on more than 15 years of innovation and reinforced by over 500 AI-related patents—more than any other cybersecurity vendor. With the latest update, FortiAI extends its capabilities across security and network operations, combining generative AI, agentic AI, and AIOps to deliver actionable insights, reduce manual workloads, and increase operational resilience. 

“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 CTO at Fortinet. 

This evolution positions FortiAI as a cornerstone of Fortinet’s broader mission to converge networking and security while helping organizations address the complexity of today’s threat landscape. 

Intelligent Operations and AI-powered Protection 

One of the key advancements is FortiAI-Assist, a next-generation automation engine that applies generative and agentic AI to simplify both security and network operations. New features include autonomous network configuration and remediation, AI-driven alert triage, and adaptive threat hunting. These tools empower teams to manage sprawling infrastructure with greater precision and fewer manual interventions. 

Meanwhile, FortiAI-Protect enhances the detection and prevention of advanced threats. It identifies and mitigates unknown attacks in real time, strengthens access controls, and provides rich threat context to reduce false positives. Notably, FortiAI now includes visibility into more than 6,500 AI application URLs, allowing organizations to monitor and control employee use of generative AI platforms. This includes identifying training models, data destinations, and applying zero-trust policies to block unauthorized AI activity and enforce safe usage. 

To further improve protection, Fortinet continues to evolve its intrusion prevention system (IPS) with machine learning models trained to recognize emerging attack techniques. The result is a more adaptive and responsive defense mechanism that keeps pace with the speed of modern threats. 

Securing AI Adoption Across Enterprise Environments 

As organizations integrate AI across business processes and technology platforms, Fortinet offers protection at every layer. FortiAI-SecureAI secures AI infrastructure and workloads across networks, APIs, and major cloud platforms. It helps prevent data poisoning, safeguards LLMs against leakage, and enforces zero-trust access for AI-powered applications. For enterprise environments that include ERP systems like SAP, these capabilities are essential for ensuring AI integrations remain secure, compliant, and trustworthy. 

Fortinet has also prioritized data privacy in the design of its AI solutions. Queries made to the Fortinet GenAI assistant are processed locally—never leaving the network—and are not used to train underlying language models. Sensitive data is automatically blocked or masked, providing enterprise-grade protection for confidential information. 

What This Means for SAPinsiders 

Embed AI into security operations to reduce risk and manual effort. To effectively combat today’s advanced threats, enterprises must deploy AI-native security solutions that automate detection, response, and remediation. FortiAI integrates generative and agentic AI into the Fortinet Security Fabric to streamline workflows, reduce alert fatigue, and improve operational accuracy. Business technology leaders should prioritize platforms that embed AI into the core of security and network operations, enabling real-time response without relying on constant human oversight. 

Enforce responsible GenAI usage with visibility and zero-trust controls. With the rapid proliferation of generative AI tools across departments, IT and security teams need deep visibility into how and where these applications are being used. FortiAI provides monitoring of over 6,500 GenAI URLs, enriched with insights like training models and data flows, allowing organizations to apply zero-trust policies and prevent shadow AI. CIOs and CISOs should implement governance frameworks supported by tools like FortiAI to control access, ensure compliance, and reduce AI-related risk without stifling innovation. 

Protect AI models and infrastructure as critical business assets. As AI becomes central to enterprise strategy, the infrastructure supporting it—models, data pipelines, and workloads—must be secured against poisoning, data leakage, and adversarial manipulation. FortiAI-SecureAI applies layered security, including local processing and data masking, to protect intellectual property and sensitive data. Technology leaders adopting AI in ERP, CRM, or analytics platforms should treat AI systems as high-value assets and deploy security solutions purpose-built to defend them across their entire lifecycle.