FortiAI is Fortinet’s platform for AI-powered defense. It’s designed to help security teams use artificial intelligence to detect, analyze, and respond to threats more efficiently.

Instead of treating AI as a separate add-on, FortiAI is built to rethink how security operations work by:

• Using AI models to identify threats faster and with more context
• Helping security teams automate parts of investigation and response
• Integrating with broader Fortinet solutions so AI insights can be applied across the environment

The goal is to help organizations keep pace with fast-changing threats while making better use of their existing security tools and staff.

Keith Choi, Director of Product Management at Fortinet, highlights two sides of the AI conversation:

• AI for security: Using AI to improve cybersecurity itself—better detection, faster response, and more automation. FortiAI fits here by applying AI to help close gaps in traditional security operations.
• Security for AI: Protecting the AI systems and data you deploy—such as LLMs, AI factories, and sovereign AI environments—from misuse, data leakage, and attacks.

Fortinet’s approach with FortiAI is to reimagine security as a unified capability that covers both:

• Enhancing your defenses with AI-driven analytics and automation
• Securing the AI infrastructure itself, including large language models and emerging AI factory architectures

This helps organizations adopt AI with more confidence, knowing that both the security benefits of AI and the risks around AI are being addressed together.

Yes. A key focus of FortiAI is helping organizations secure modern AI deployments, not just use AI for threat detection.

According to Fortinet, FortiAI is built to support:

• Emerging AI factory architectures – providing security controls and visibility as organizations build centralized AI infrastructure.
• LLMs (large language models) – helping protect against misuse, data exposure, and attacks that target the models or the data they handle.
• Sovereign AI environments – supporting organizations that need to keep AI data and processing within specific regions or jurisdictions, while maintaining strong security.

By combining AI-powered defense with protection for AI workloads themselves, FortiAI aims to help organizations reshape how they deploy and secure AI across their environments.