Fortinet acquires Virtue AI to continuously secure and validate AI systems throughout their entire lifecycle, including agents.
Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI. Virtue AI is a specialist in AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems. With the acquisition, Fortinet aims to strengthen its AI-Native Security Fabric and protect agentic AI systems throughout their full lifecycle.
Addition to FortiAIGate
Earlier this year, Fortinet already launched FortiAIGate, a solution that protects large language models against prompt injection, data leaks, and model poisoning, among other things. Virtue AI extends that protection to AI models, applications, and agentic systems, from development through to production use.
Virtue AI’s technology is based on the Guardian Agent and includes red-teaming of autonomous agents in more than fifty sandboxed environments and fourteen high-risk domains. Additionally, the solution provides insight and management over agents and AI tools within an organization, and blocks malicious tool calls before they are executed.
Continuous validation
Virtue AI also performs continuous AI validation, mapping new risks with every model update or policy adjustment. The automated red-teaming tests hundreds of attack vectors and more than a thousand risk categories, providing reports for security and compliance teams.