Fortinet Expands FortiEndpoint With AI Security Enhancements

Fortinet announced enhancements to its unified endpoint platform, FortiEndpoint, with additions tied to AI visibility, native data security, endpoint risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations. The company said the changes were designed to help security teams govern AI usage, reduce sensitive data exposure, enforce risk-aware access, and simplify endpoint security operations.

Fortinet positioned the update as part of its consolidation strategy within the Fortinet Security Fabric, aimed at converging security and networking functions through a single endpoint platform. The announcement linked the need for better visibility and control to the use of agents and AI-enabled applications embedded in day-to-day work, alongside fragmented tools across protection, detection and response, secure access, and data security.

FortiEndpoint was described as providing centralized visibility and control over sanctioned and unsanctioned AI application and agent usage across endpoints, including installed AI apps, agents, and web-based tools. The platform said it supports granular guardrail policies to allow, restrict, monitor, or block applications, and it provides native DLP through automatic inspection of sensitive data exchanged with AI applications, agents, and web services.

FortiAI-Assist was built into FortiEndpoint to support natural-language investigation of events, visualization of findings, generation of investigation summaries, identification of high-risk devices, and troubleshooting, along with contextual insights, policy recommendations, and risk guidance. The company also described adaptive zero-trust capabilities using dynamic risk and compliance scoring based on continuously assessed endpoint health, compliance status, and risk posture.

“Organizations need a simpler and more effective way to manage security as their environments become more complex and AI-enabled,” said Michael Xie, Founder, President, and CTO at Fortinet. “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.”

“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.”

Fortinet said the new FortiEndpoint enhancements were expected to be available in Q3 2026.

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