FortiEndpoint builds on the consolidation strategy previewed at Fortinet Accelerate 2026 by bringing AI visibility and governance, endpoint protection, detection and response, secure remote access, native data security, and FortiAI-assisted operations together through one agent, one console, and one license. Through integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric, endpoint telemetry and risk context can inform connected security controls, strengthening adaptive access, policy enforcement, and enterprise-wide visibility.
These capabilities help define Fortinet’s approach to endpoint security for the AI era, advanced through three key areas of innovation:
Securing AI Use at the Endpoint
FortiEndpoint provides centralized visibility and control over sanctioned and unsanctioned AI application and agent usage across endpoints, including installed AI apps, agents, and web-based tools. From a single view, organizations can identify agents and applications in use, monitor adoption, and understand user activity to help surface shadow AI, unmanaged applications, and unauthorized tool usage.
With granular guardrail policies, security teams can allow, restrict, monitor, or block applications based on corporate security, compliance, and data security requirements. This supports responsible AI adoption while reducing the risk of unsanctioned tools, sensitive data exposure, and policy violations.
Reducing AI-Driven Data Exposure and Insider Risk
FortiEndpoint now natively supports DLP to help secure AI interactions and reduce insider risk by automatically inspecting sensitive 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.
This helps prevent the leakage of sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, intellectual property, and financial information directly at the endpoint. By integrating DLP into FortiEndpoint, organizations can safely adopt AI while maintaining stronger data security and compliance controls without adding another point product or management layer.
Unifying Endpoint Security, Access, Data Security and AI-Assisted Operations
FortiAI-Assist is built into FortiEndpoint to simplify administration and accelerate day-to-day operations. Security teams can use natural language to investigate events, visualize findings, generate investigation summaries, identify high-risk devices, and troubleshoot issues. It also provides contextual insights, policy recommendations, and risk guidance to help analysts strengthen governance, prioritize threats, scale threat hunting, and improve efficiency through a unified management experience.
These assisted workflows are complemented by adaptive zero-trust capabilities with dynamic risk and compliance scoring. By continuously assessing endpoint health, compliance status, and risk posture, FortiEndpoint helps organizations make access decisions based on real-time context, so access to AI applications and protected resources can be adjusted as risk changes. This helps organizations reduce exposure, enforce more consistent policy, and safely support AI-enabled work.
Industry analysts are also recognizing the importance of this integrated approach as organizations look for practical ways to govern AI use without adding more tools and complexity.
Chris DePuy, Technology Analyst at 650 Group
Fortinet is addressing what many CISOs need now: visibility into AI usage, control over sanctioned and unsanctioned tools, protection against sensitive data leakage, and real-time coaching to help employees use AI responsibly. Delivering these capabilities through FortiEndpoint gives customers a practical way to manage AI risk with the same agent and license they already rely on for endpoint security.
