Fortinet has announced it has acquired Virtue AI, an innovator in AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems. The acquisition advances the company's broader Security for AI strategy and vision for securing the agentic enterprise, building on Fortinet's existing AI security solution portfolio.
Fortinet acquires Virtue AI for AI runtime protection and validation.
Virtue AI provides agentic system red-teaming across 50+ sandboxed environments.
Continuous AI validation across model updates with audit-ready evidence.
Real-time guardrails for text, images, video, audio, and AI-generated code.
Complements FortiAIGate for LLM security against prompt injections and data leakage.
AI security market expected to grow from $2.8B to $16.4B by 2030.
As organizations rapidly deploy AI applications and autonomous agents, their attack surface expands beyond traditional networks, users, endpoints, applications, and cloud workloads. It now includes prompts, models, agents, Model Context Protocol tools, API calls, and AI infrastructure. Fortinet met that need earlier this year with FortiAIGate, which safeguards LLMs from prompt injections, data leakage, model poisoning, excessive resource consumption, and other emerging AI-specific risks. Virtue AI extends that security to AI models, applications, and agentic systems from development through runtime.
Virtue AI provides agentic system red-teaming that tests autonomous agents for exploitable weaknesses across more than 50 sandboxed environments and 14 high-stakes domains. Agent protection, governance, and visibility delivers full visibility into agents and AI tools, discovers unsanctioned AI applications, scans MCP tools and source code for hidden risks, monitors agent behavior, and blocks malicious tool calls. Continuous AI validation identifies new risks across every model update and fine-tuning, generating audit-ready evidence. Real-time guardrails enforce customizable policies across text, images, video, audio, and AI-generated code.
"AI is fundamentally changing enterprise computing, and security must evolve just as quickly," said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer at Fortinet. "Virtue AI's technology will advance our vision for continuous AI assurance, helping customers govern and protect AI systems throughout their lifecycle and while operating them confidently at enterprise scale."
About Fortinet
Fortinet is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and today we deliver cybersecurity everywhere our customers need it with the largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products. Over a million lifetime customers trust Fortinet's solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry.
