Fortinet Buys Virtue AI for Model Security, Agent Guardrails
TL;DR. Fortinet acquired AI security specialist Virtue AI to expand its defenses for AI models, applications, and autonomous agents. - Virtue AI provides automated red-teaming, real-time protection, and compliance for AI systems. - The platform uses over 100 attack algorithms to uncover vulnerabilities in AI models and agent tool usage. - It also applies runtime guardrails across various data types and blocks unsafe agent actions before execution.
- Fortinet acquired AI security company Virtue AI.
- Virtue AI offers automated red-teaming, real-time protection, and compliance for AI models, applications, and agentic systems.
- The acquisition enhances Fortinet's AI security portfolio with agentic system red teaming and continuous AI validation.
Sources
- Fortinet Acquires AI Security Company Virtue AI — securityweek.com