Fortinet Inc. today expanded its FortiEndpoint platform with a set of features aimed at helping companies monitor employee use of artificial intelligence tools and stop sensitive data from leaking into them.

The update adds AI visibility and controls, built-in data loss prevention and an AI assistant for security teams to the endpoint product, which Fortinet sells through a single agent, console and license.

Fortinet first outlined the plan at its Accelerate 2026 conference, pitching FortiEndpoint as one product to replace the separate tools companies run for endpoint protection, remote access and data security. The product also ties into the wider Fortinet Security Fabric. A risk signal from one device can then feed access and policy decisions across Fortinet’s other security and networking products.

The first of three areas centers on tracking AI use. FortiEndpoint gives administrators a single view of the sanctioned and unsanctioned AI applications, agents and web tools running on company devices, along with who is using them. Security teams can allow, restrict, monitor or block those tools based on company policy, a way to rein in the shadow AI that spreads when employees adopt applications without approval.

The second area targets data leakage. The data loss prevention now built into FortiEndpoint inspects information as it moves to AI applications, agents and web services, flagging material such as personally identifiable information, intellectual property and financial records before it leaves the device. The feature also shows users real-time prompts about acceptable use, which Fortinet says is meant to curb risky behavior without slowing work.

The third piece is FortiAI-Assist, an assistant built into the platform. Analysts can use plain language to investigate events, pull up summaries, flag high-risk devices and troubleshoot problems and the tool offers policy recommendations and risk guidance. Those workflows sit alongside zero-trust controls that score a device’s health and compliance continuously and adjust its access as its risk level changes.

“Organizations need a simpler and more effective way to manage security as their environments become more complex and AI-enabled,” Michael Xie, founder, president and chief technology officer at Fortinet, said in the announcement. He added that the platform pulls together security, secure access, data security, AI visibility and assisted operations through one agent, one console and one license.

The additions are due in the third quarter. They continue a run of AI-focused releases from Fortinet, which expanded generative AI across seven products in late 2024 and in December brought its FortiGate-VM firewall to Nvidia’s BlueField-3 chips for AI data centers.

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