The company Fortinet has announced new capabilities for its unified endpoint protection platform, FortiEndpoint, designed to help organizations safely adopt artificial intelligence (AI), protect sensitive data and reduce risk. By incorporating visibility and control over AI usage, native data security, endpoint risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations into FortiEndpoint, Fortinet enables security teams to more effectively manage AI usage, reduce exposure of sensitive information, enforce risk-based access controls, and simplify security operations in distributed environments.
“Organizations require a simpler, more effective way to manage security as their environments become more complex and increasingly adopt AI capabilities,” said Michael Xie, founder, president and CTO of Fortinet. “Fortinet Security Fabric is designed to unify critical security and networking functions across the enterprise, helping customers reduce complexity, improve visibility, and strengthen protection. With FortiEndpoint, we extend this strategy by consolidating security, secure access, data protection, AI visibility, and assisted operations into a unified endpoint platform, managed by a single agent, a single console, and a single license.”
Greater protection for sensitive data
As AI agents and AI-powered applications become integrated into everyday work, organizations need greater visibility, stronger governance, and built-in protection to enable them to safely adopt AI while reducing endpoint risk and protecting sensitive data. These needs are more urgent due to the speed of action of malicious actors and the use of more sophisticated techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in users, devices, applications and data. Additionally, the proliferation of separate tools for protection, detection and response, secure access, and data security increases operational complexity, slows security team response, and limits visibility.
AI Visibility and Governance
FortiEndpoint responds to the consolidation strategy presented by Fortinet at Accelerate 2026, integrating AI visibility and governance, endpoint protection, detection and response, secure remote access, native data security and FortiAI-assisted operations into a single platform, all through a single agent, a single console and a single license. Thanks to its integration into Fortinet Security Fabric, endpoint telemetry and risk context can be shared with connected security controls, strengthening adaptive access, policy enforcement, and visibility across the organization.
These capabilities reflect Fortinet’s vision for endpoint security in the age of AI, anchored in three key areas of innovation:
Protecting the use of AI on endpoints
FortiEndpoint provides centralized visibility and control over the usage of authorized and unauthorized AI applications and agents across all endpoints, including installed AI applications, agents, and web-based tools. From a single console, organizations can identify which agents and applications are in use, monitor their adoption, and understand user activity to detect the use of shadow AI, unmanaged applications, and rogue tools.
Using granular control policies (guardrails), security teams can allow, restrict, monitor, or block applications based on corporate security, compliance, and data protection requirements. This promotes responsible adoption of AI, while reducing the risk associated with the use of unauthorized tools, exposure of sensitive information, and policy violations.
Reducing data exposure
FortiEndpoint now natively incorporates data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities to protect AI interactions and reduce insider risk by automatically inspecting sensitive information exchanged with AI applications, agents, and web services. In addition, it integrates real-time user guidance functions that provide recommendations based on corporate policies, helping employees understand acceptable uses of AI and reduce risky behaviors without affecting their productivity.
These capabilities help prevent the leak of sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information, intellectual property, or financial information, directly from the endpoint. By integrating DLP into FortiEndpoint, organizations can safely embrace AI while maintaining strong data protection and compliance controls, without needing to add additional point solutions or new layers of management.
Unifying endpoint security
FortiAI-Assist is integrated into FortiEndpoint to simplify management and streamline daily operations. Security teams can use natural language to investigate incidents, visualize findings, generate investigation summaries, identify high-risk devices, and resolve incidents. It also provides contextual information, policy recommendations, and risk-based guidance to help analysts strengthen governance, prioritize threats, scale proactive threat hunting, and improve efficiency through a unified management experience.
FortiEndpoint natively incorporates data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities to protect interactions with AI
These assisted workflows are complemented by adaptive zero trust capabilities that incorporate dynamic risk and compliance scoring. By continuously assessing the health of endpoints, their compliance level, and their risk profile, FortiEndpoint helps organizations make context-based access decisions in real time, allowing access to AI applications and protected resources to be adjusted as the risk level evolves. This allows organizations to reduce their exposure footprint, apply security policies more consistently, and securely support AI-enabled work environments.
Industry analysts also recognize the importance of this integrated approach, as organizations look for practical ways to govern the use of AI without adding more tools or increasing complexity.
“Fortinet is addressing what many CISOs need today: visibility into AI usage, control of authorized and unauthorized tools, protection against sensitive data leaks, and real-time guidance to help employees use AI responsibly,” said Chris DePuy, technology analyst at 650 Group. “By offering these capabilities through FortiEndpoint, Fortinet provides its customers with a convenient way to manage AI risk using the same agent and license they already trust to protect their endpoints.” The new improvements will be available throughout the third quarter of this year.
