Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the modern workplace. Employees are using generative AI tools, AI agents, coding assistants, and copilots to improve productivity, automate workflows, and accelerate innovation. Although AI offers significant business opportunities, it also introduces new security challenges around visibility, governance, data protection, and operational complexity.

At the same time, organizations must continue defending against ransomware, credential theft, insider threats, and increasingly sophisticated attacks designed to evade traditional security controls. Security teams are often forced to manage these risks using separate products for endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), secure access, data protection, and AI governance, creating operational silos, fragmented visibility, and unnecessary complexity.

Today, we’re expanding FortiEndpoint with powerful new capabilities designed for the AI era. These latest innovations expand our unified endpoint platform by adding visibility and control, native data protection, endpoint risk management, FortiAI-assisted operations, and flexible deployment options for organizations with data sovereignty requirements. Combined with advanced endpoint protection, EDR, and universal ZTNA, FortiEndpoint delivers comprehensive endpoint security through one agent, one console, and one license.

AI Usage and Security Starts at Endpoint

AI has fundamentally changed what organizations expect from endpoint security. It’s no longer enough to simply stop malware. Security teams must understand how AI is used across the organization, prevent the sharing of sensitive information with unauthorized AI services, continuously evaluate endpoint health, and ensure users have secure access to applications based on real-time device posture.

Organizations often try to address these challenges by adding additional point products. Unfortunately, each new tool often introduces another agent, another management console, and another operational workflow, significantly complicating operations management.

FortiEndpoint takes a different approach. It brings endpoint security, secure access, AI governance, and data protection together into a single platform. This unified architecture approach reduces complexity while providing consistent visibility, policy enforcement, and security operations across the endpoint lifecycle.

Gain Visibility and Establish Guardrails for AI Applications and AI Agents

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.

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.

Organizations can also establish granular guardrails that allow, monitor, restrict, or block applications based on business, security, or regulatory requirements. This enables them to encourage innovation while maintaining governance over AI usage.

Protect AI-Derived Data Exposure and Reduce Insider Risk

One of the biggest concerns about enterprise AI adoption is protecting sensitive information. Employees frequently interact with applications using source code, intellectual property, financial records, customer information, and other confidential data. Without proper controls in place, that information can unintentionally leave the organization.

To address these challenges, FortiEndpoint now includes native data loss prevention (DLP) integrated directly into the endpoint platform with FortiDLP. All FortiDLP capabilities are now part of FortiEndpoint, enabling sensitive data exchanged with AI applications and agents, web applications, and cloud services to be automatically inspected and governed through centralized policies.

Built-in user coaching further strengthens security by providing real-time guidance when users attempt to perform actions that violate policy. Rather than simply blocking activity, organizations can educate users while reducing insider risk and supporting secure AI adoption.

Prevent, Detect, and Respond with a Unified Platform

Modern attacks rarely rely on a single technique. Instead, attackers often combine ransomware, credential theft, exploits, malicious scripts, fileless malware, and living-off-the-land techniques to evade traditional defenses.

FortiEndpoint has integrated multiple layers of prevention, including AI-powered antivirus, behavioral analysis, anti-ransomware and anti-exploit technologies, web filtering, application firewall, vulnerability management, and cloud sandboxing to stop threats before they impact the business.

When advanced threats do bypass prevention, integrated EDR continuously monitors endpoint activity, correlates behavioral indicators, and provides rich telemetry, attack timelines, and investigation tools. Analysts can quickly isolate compromised devices, terminate malicious processes, investigate attacker activity, and remediate threats without switching between products or consoles.

Together, endpoint protection platform (EPP) and EDR provide organizations with a unified approach to endpoint protection, detection, investigation, and response.

Adaptive Zero-Trust Access Starts with Endpoint Risk Assessment

Endpoint posture is constantly evolving. Devices become vulnerable due to missing patches, outdated software, configuration drift, or disabled security controls. And static trust decisions can quickly become obsolete.

FortiEndpoint continuously evaluates endpoint health and generates dynamic risk and compliance scores that help security teams prioritize remediation efforts while strengthening overall security posture.

Native zero-trust network access (ZTNA), embedded in the unified endpoint agent and seamlessly integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric, enables organizations to use near-real-time endpoint risk and visibility scores as zero-trust posture signals to dynamically enforce adaptive access policies.

Flexible Deployment for Data Sovereignty

Every organization has different operational and regulatory requirements. While many organizations prefer cloud-managed security, others require that endpoint security data remain entirely within their own infrastructure due to regulatory, operational, or data residency requirements.

FortiEndpoint provides the flexibility to be deployed wherever your business requires it. Organizations can leverage cloud-managed deployments or maintain complete control over endpoint management and detection with on-premises FortiClient EMS and FortiEDR.

This enables organizations to comply with data sovereignty requirements without compromising advanced endpoint protection, behavioral EDR, centralized management, or operational visibility. Whether deployed in enterprise environments, highly regulated industries, critical infrastructure, or air-gapped networks, FortiEndpoint delivers a consistent security experience.

Accelerate Security Operations with FortiAI-Assist

Security teams are increasingly overwhelmed by growing alert volumes and limited resources. FortiAI-Assist assists analysts by aiding incident investigations, summarizing findings, identifying high-risk devices, streamlining threat hunting, troubleshooting issues, and providing and receiving contextual recommendations using natural language.

Integrating FortiAI-Assist directly into FortiEndpoint reduces manual effort and accelerates decision-making, enabling security teams to spend more time on threat response rather than navigating management interfaces.

One Platform. One Agent. One Console.

The security industry has spent years trying to address the expanding threat landscape by piling on more products. FortiEndpoint takes a different approach by consolidating endpoint protection, EDR, universal ZTNA, AI visibility and control, data security and insider risk management, and AI-assisted operations into a single, unified platform.

Deep integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric extends endpoint intelligence across the broader security ecosystem, enabling coordinated response, adaptive policy enforcement, and unified visibility across endpoint and network security.

As organizations continue their AI journey, FortiEndpoint provides the visibility, protection, and operational simplicity needed to securely embrace AI while reducing tool sprawl and improving security outcomes, all through one agent, one console, and one license.

Read the press release to learn more.