Fortinet adds AI protections to endpoint security platform

Fortinet added AI visibility and control capabilities to its FortiEndpoint security platform to help enterprises govern AI usage, reduce data exposure, and simplify security operations. The update includes data loss prevention for AI interactions and a natural language AI agent for security teams. The enhancements are expected in Q3 2026.

Fortinet has added AI visibility and control capabilities to its endpoint security package to help enterprises better govern AI usage, reduce data exposure, and simplify security operations. The vendor’s FortiEndpoint platform integrates antivirus, endpoint detection and response, VPN, zero trust network access, vulnerability management, and data protection. It feeds into Fortinet’s overall Security Fabric https://www.networkworld.com/article/2077650/fortinet-grows-integrated-network-security-platform-with-expansive-management-ai-features.html system to improve enterprise threat detection and response and simplify endpoint management and security policies, according to the company. With the new release, FortiEndpoint gains improved AI visibility and controls, integrated data loss prevention, and a natural language-based AI agent to help security teams generate investigation summaries, identify high-risk devices, and troubleshoot issues. “FortiEndpoint provides centralized visibility into AI applications and agents operating across managed endpoints. Security teams can identify sanctioned and unsanctioned tools, detect shadow AI, monitor adoption trends, and understand user activity through unified dashboards,” wrote Ankit Gupta https://www.linkedin.com/in/agupta27/ , product and marketing leader for Fortinet, in a blog post https://www.fortinet.com/blog/security-operations/fortiendpoint-expands-security-for-the-ai-era about the enhancements. “Organizations can’t govern AI instances they can’t see. As employees increasingly rely on a growing number of AI assistants, coding copilots, autonomous AI agents, and browser-based AI services, security teams need visibility into which tools are being used, who is using them, and whether those applications comply with corporate policy,” Gupta wrote. In addition, FortiEndpoint natively supports data loss prevention DLP by automatically inspecting sensitive business 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, Gupta stated. This feature 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, according to Fortinet. Lastly, the vendor has built a FortiAI-Assist agent into FortiEndpoint to simplify administration and accelerate day-to-day operations. The agent can provide contextual insights, policy recommendations, and risk guidance to help customers strengthen governance, prioritize threats, scale threat hunting, and improve efficiency through a unified management experience, according to Fortinet. 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,” Fortinet stated. “This helps organizations reduce exposure, enforce more consistent policy, and safely support AI-enabled work.” “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” said Chris DePuy, technology analyst at 650 Group, in a statement http://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cZaOC6Yw0wtQ4P4qIpfGf5bFPV?domain=fortinet.com . The FortiEndpoint enhancements are expected in Q3 2026.