Fortinet has expanded support for AI across its core cybersecurity platform to protect enterprise customers from evolving threats and simplify network and security operations.
Specifically, Fortinet has expanded the role its FortiAI technology plays in its Security Fabric platform to offer customers more intelligent automation, proactive defense, and operational efficiencies than the current implementation.
FortiAI is the vendor’s natural language, AI-based security assistant that promises to help customers better handle security operations and network management. The FortiAI assistant initially was part of Fortinet’s FortiSIEM security information and event management platform and FortiSOAR security orchestration, automation, and response product. Most recently, Fortinet has added FortiAI support to its FortiNetwork Detection and Response (FortiNDR) cloud package. And with this announcement, the company has embedded it deeply into the Security Fabric to expand AI-driven threat detection and analysis, the company stated.
“By embedding FortiAI across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, including new agentic AI capabilities, we’re empowering our customers to reduce the workload on their security and network analysts while improving the efficiency, speed, and accuracy of their security and networking operations,” said Michael Xie, founder, president, and chief technology officer at Fortinet, in a statement. “In parallel, we’ve added coverage across the Fabric eco-system to enable customers to monitor and control the use of GenAI-enabled services within their organization.”
Some of the new capabilities include:
- The ability to prioritize security notifications based on risk, context, and historical patterns, suppress duplicate alerts, and only flag high-confidence threats.
- Support for adaptive threat hunting, which scans logs, network traffic, and user behavior to search for threats without waiting for human input.
- The ability to perform root-cause tracing, which uses AI-driven reasoning to identify an attack’s origin, method, and impact.
- Improved proactive defense by correlating attack patterns and attributing adversary tactics.
- Support for automating network configuration and security policy updates, validation and correction of existing configurations.
Fortinet also embedded a new capability within the Security Fabric platform designed to provide visibility, control, and advanced threat detection capabilities for enterprise AI applications. FortiAI-Protect can detect AI application usage for over 6,500 AI URLs, including genAI applications, the vendor stated. The idea is to help security teams determine the intended use cases of AI applications, the training models they utilize, and where the data is being routed, the vendor stated.
The package employs AI and machine learning techniques to large-scale data analysis with the goal of helping detect and neutralize emerging malware threats. The system learns patterns and combines that with known threat indicators to develop precise threat identification.
Source:: Network World