Fortinet adds AI protections to endpoint security platform

“FortiEndpoint provides centralized visibility into AI applications and agents operating across managed endpoints. Security teams can identify sanctioned and unsanctioned tools, detect shadow AI, monitor adoption trends, and understand user activity through unified dashboards,” wrote Ankit Gupta, product and marketing leader for Fortinet, in a blog post about the enhancements.
“Organizations can’t govern AI instances they can’t see. As employees increasingly rely on a growing number of AI assistants, coding copilots, autonomous AI agents, and browser-based AI services, security teams need visibility into which tools are being used, who is using them, and whether those applications comply with corporate policy,” Gupta wrote.
In addition, FortiEndpoint natively supports data loss prevention (DLP) by automatically inspecting sensitive business data exchanged with AI applications, agents, and web services. Built-in user coaching provides real-time policy guidance to help users understand acceptable AI usage and reduce risky behaviors without impacting productivity, Gupta stated.