{"id":1013535,"date":"2026-10-26T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/fortinet-expands-ai-security-with-the-fortiguard-inline-ai-security-service\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:58:12","slug":"fortinet-expands-ai-security-with-the-fortiguard-inline-ai-security-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/fortinet-expands-ai-security-with-the-fortiguard-inline-ai-security-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortinet Expands AI Security with the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nNew cloud-delivered service brings advanced AI guardrails and inspection to FortiGate firewalls, backed by continued FortiAIGate innovation
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — <\/p>\n

Fortinet\u00ae<\/sup> (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced the new FortiGuard<\/a> Inline AI Security Service, delivering AI-specific inspection and guardrails to FortiGate customers through a cloud-delivered service. Organizations gain deeper visibility into AI activity and stop AI threats and data exposure through the Fortinet solutions they already use. Ongoing innovation in FortiAIGate<\/a> powers these capabilities with high-performance AI guardrails, expanded access and compliance controls, shadow AI and agent visibility, and technology from the recent acquisition of Virtue AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fortinet\u2019s broad FortiGate footprint gives organizations a simpler path to adopt advanced AI security through the infrastructure they already use. Customers can enable the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service without deploying and managing separate AI security infrastructure, making advanced AI security accessible to a broader set of organizations. Customers with more advanced security, privacy, and sovereignty requirements can deploy FortiAIGate directly in their own environment for greater control over how and where AI traffic and data are processed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganizations need AI security that can scale with how quickly AI is being adopted across the enterprise,\u201d said Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet. \u201cBy extending advanced AI inspection and guardrails through FortiGate, we are making AI security available through the infrastructure customers already use. FortiAIGate provides the foundation for this broader strategy, giving customers flexibility in how they deploy and consume AI security based on their cost, performance, privacy, and sovereignty requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Cloud-Delivered AI Security through Fortinet Infrastructure<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

With the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service, FortiGate customers gain deeper visibility into AI activity and stop AI-specific threats and sensitive data exposure through infrastructure they already use. FortiAIGate-based guardrails inspect prompts and data in real time and enforce security, compliance, and data protection policies across interactions with agents, large language models (LLMs), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.<\/p>\n

The service goes beyond existing Fortinet capabilities for discovering shadow AI usage and applying data loss prevention (DLP) policies to AI traffic.\u00a0It extends protection beyond identifying AI use and sensitive data movement to inspecting the content of AI interactions and masking sensitive data without adding new infrastructure to deploy and manage.<\/p>\n

\n Context-Aware AI Security for Applications and Agents<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

With AI moving into production, LLMs and autonomous agents gain access to sensitive data, business applications, and critical workflows. Traditional security tools inspect IPs, signatures, and payloads, but they do not assess prompts and responses for potential threats. AI-specific threats hide in prompts, model responses, and MCP tool communications and can trigger harmful tool calls, API calls, and autonomous agent actions.<\/p>\n

FortiAIGate addresses these risks by providing a real-time control point between AI applications and models, analyzing interactions, and enforcing policy in real time based on the model, application, user role, and business context. Organizations can:<\/p>\n