Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has introduced a service designed to help businesses detect threats and prevent sensitive data leaks when employees use artificial intelligence tools.
Announced on Oct. 28, the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service brings AI inspection capabilities to customers using FortiGate firewalls. The cloud-delivered service allows organizations to add protection without deploying separate AI security infrastructure, the company said.
The service uses technology from Fortinet’s FortiAIGate platform to inspect prompts and data in real time. It applies security and data protection policies to interactions involving AI agents, large language models and connected tools.
Fortinet said the service goes beyond identifying unauthorized AI use and tracking sensitive data movement. It also examines the content of AI interactions and can mask confidential information.
Michael Xie, Fortinet founder, president and chief technology officer, said businesses need security measures that can keep pace with AI adoption. He said extending these capabilities through existing firewalls gives customers more flexibility in managing costs, performance and privacy requirements.
The company said AI applications and autonomous agents increasingly have access to sensitive information and business systems. Threats embedded in prompts, model responses and tool communications could cause these systems to perform harmful actions.
FortiAIGate serves as a control point between AI applications and models, examining interactions and enforcing policies based on the application, user role and business context.
Its data protection features can detect 35 types of personally identifiable information and confidential data, allowing organizations to block or redact information before exposure, Fortinet said.
The platform also lets administrators set spending limits, control access to models and monitor AI agents. Logs of prompts, outputs and tool calls support audits.
Organizations with stricter privacy or data sovereignty requirements can deploy FortiAIGate within their own infrastructure, keeping prompts, responses and logs inside their environment rather than using the cloud-delivered service.
