Fortinet acquires Virtue AI to strengthen continuous protection for agentic AI
Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI, an AI security company focused on runtime protection, automated validation and security for autonomous AI systems, as the cybersecurity vendor looks to extend its protection of enterprises adopting AI agents.
The acquisition, announced on August 19, expands Fortinet’s existing Security for AI strategy beyond protecting large language models to cover AI applications and agentic systems throughout their development and runtime lifecycle. Financial terms were not disclosed, although Fortinet said the consideration paid was immaterial to its business.
The move comes as enterprises increasingly deploy AI applications and autonomous agents, creating an attack surface that extends beyond conventional networks, endpoints, applications and cloud workloads. Prompts, models, agents, Model Context Protocol tools, API calls and AI infrastructure are becoming additional security concerns.
Fortinet had earlier introduced FortiAIGate to protect large language models against threats including prompt injection, data leakage, model poisoning and excessive resource consumption. Virtue AI...
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