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"FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service"
Fortinet, a global leader in cybersecurity—driving the convergence of networking and security—has announced the launch of the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service. This new cloud-delivered service provides specialized capabilities for monitoring, controlling, and securing AI usage for FortiGate customers. It offers enhanced visibility into AI activities, blocks AI-driven threats, and prevents data exposure—all integrated into the FortiGate solutions that organizations already have in place. FortiAIGate continues to evolve, delivering increasingly powerful capabilities for AI control and protection. It expands the scope of compliance management, provides greater visibility into "Shadow AI" and AI agents, and incorporates technology gained through the acquisition of Virtue AI. With its extensive FortiGate install base, Fortinet makes it easier for organizations to deploy advanced AI security using their existing infrastructure. Customers can activate the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service without the need to install or manage separate AI security infrastructure, making sophisticated AI protection more accessible. For organizations with stringent requirements regarding security, privacy, and data sovereignty, FortiAIGate can also be deployed directly within their own IT environments. To provide greater control over how and where AI traffic and data are processed,
Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet, stated that organizations require an AI security system capable of rapidly scaling alongside the expansion of AI usage across the entire enterprise. By enhancing advanced AI inspection, control, and protection capabilities through FortiGate, Fortinet enables customers to implement AI security within their existing infrastructure. FortiAIGate serves as a cornerstone for this strategy, offering customers the flexibility to choose how they deploy and utilize AI security to meet their specific requirements regarding cost, performance, privacy, and data sovereignty. The cloud-delivered AI security service—FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service—provides FortiGate customers with comprehensive visibility into AI activity, enabling them to block AI-specific threats and prevent the exposure of sensitive data using their current infrastructure. Leveraging FortiAIGate, these AI control and protection mechanisms inspect prompts and data in real time, while enforcing security policies, compliance standards, and data protection measures across every interaction with AI agents. Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
This service goes beyond simply detecting "Shadow AI" usage or enforcing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies on AI traffic. It extends protection—moving past the mere identification of AI usage and the movement of sensitive data—to inspect the actual content of AI interactions and redact critical information, all without the need to install or manage additional infrastructure. Security for AI applications and agents is now a practical necessity; Large Language Models and autonomous agents can access sensitive data, business applications, and critical workflows. Traditional security tools are limited to monitoring IP addresses, signatures, and payloads; they fail to evaluate prompts and responses for potential threats. AI-specific threats often reside within prompts, model responses, and communications via the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—potentially leading to unauthorized tool invocation, API calls, or the execution of malicious autonomous agent actions. FortiAIGate addresses these risks by serving as a real-time control point between AI applications and models, analyzing interactions and enforcing policies dynamically based on the specific model, application, user role, and business context.
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