Fortinet expands FortiEndpoint with new capabilities for the AI era

Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader, has announced new capabilities for its unified endpoint platform, FortiEndpoint, designed to assist organizations in securely adopting AI and protecting sensitive data. The enhancements include AI visibility and control, native data security, endpoint risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations within FortiEndpoint.

These features enable security teams to better manage AI usage, lower the risk of sensitive data exposure, and simplify security operations across distributed environments.

The Fortinet Security Fabric, which consolidates critical security and networking functions across enterprises, is designed to reduce complexity, improve visibility, and strengthen protection. By consolidating security, secure access, data security, AI visibility, and assisted operations into a single agent, console, and licence, FortiEndpoint aims to help organizations secure AI-enabled work while reducing endpoint risk and safeguarding sensitive information.

Michael Xie, Fortinet's Founder, President, and CTO, emphasizes that as agents and AI-enabled applications become integral to daily work, organizations require enhanced visibility, stronger governance, and integrated protection to securely enable AI while mitigating endpoint risks and securing sensitive data. As threat actors become more sophisticated, security teams face increasing pressure due to fragmented tools across protection, detection, response, secure access, and data security.

FortiEndpoint integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric, enabling organizations to gain insights into endpoint activity and risk context, which can inform connected security controls. These capabilities support adaptive access, policy enforcement, and enterprise-wide visibility. Three key areas of innovation in FortiEndpoint are centralised visibility and control over sanctioned and unsanctioned AI application and agent usage, native Data Loss Prevention (DLP) support, and the integration of FortiAI-Assist.

FortiEndpoint's AI visibility and control capabilities allow organizations to identify and manage AI applications and agents in use, monitor adoption, and understand user activity. This helps uncover shadow AI, unmanaged applications, and unauthorized tools. Granular guardrail policies empower security teams to allow, restrict, monitor, or block applications based on corporate security, compliance, and data security requirements, thus promoting responsible AI adoption and minimizing risks associated with unapproved tools and data exposure.

FortiEndpoint's native DLP functionality safeguards AI interactions by automatically inspecting sensitive data exchanged with AI applications, agents, and web services. Real-time policy guidance for users helps prevent the leakage of sensitive information. FortiAI-Assist simplifies administration and accelerates daily operations by enabling security teams to use natural language for event investigation, visualizing findings, generating summaries, identifying high-risk devices, and troubleshooting issues.

The platform also offers contextual insights, policy recommendations, and risk guidance to bolster governance, prioritize threats, and enhance efficiency through a unified management experience.

These features are complemented by adaptive zero-trust capabilities with dynamic risk and compliance scoring, allowing organizations to make access decisions based on real-time context. By continually evaluating endpoint health, compliance status, and risk posture, FortiEndpoint assists organizations in making informed access decisions, thereby reducing exposure, enforcing consistent policies, and safely supporting AI-enabled work.

Industry analysts recognize the significance of this integrated approach as organizations seek practical ways to govern AI use without adding additional tools and complexity. Chris DePuy, a Technology Analyst at 650 Group, notes that Fortinet is addressing the needs of many CISOs by providing visibility into AI usage, control over sanctioned and unsanctioned tools, protection against data leakage, and real-time coaching to encourage responsible AI usage.

Delivering these capabilities through FortiEndpoint offers customers a practical solution to manage AI risk with the same agent and licence they already use for endpoint security.

The enhanced FortiEndpoint features are slated for release in Q3 2026. For more information, visit the provided link. Fortinet, a global leader in cybersecurity, is at the forefront of the convergence of networking and security, committed to securing people, devices, and data.