Fortinet to Acquire AI Security Startup Virtue AI
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Fortinet announced on the 20th that it will acquire AI security startup Virtue AI.
The acquisition amount was not disclosed, and Fortinet plans to add Virtue AI's technology to its existing AI security portfolio.
Virtue AI provides preemptive red-teaming for AI agent vulnerabilities, automatic checks, and evidence-generation features for audit response.
Fortinet announced on the 20th that it will acquire AI security startup Virtue AI. The acquisition amount was not disclosed. Virtue AI is an AI security technology provider that works on runtime protection, verification automation, and agent management technologies.
Fortinet said it acquired Virtue AI to strengthen its AI security capabilities and plans to add Virtue AI's technology to its existing AI security portfolio. An example of the existing portfolio is the FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall.
The growing adoption of AI apps and agents is closely linked to a broader attack surface. As a result, the security scope has expanded from networks and endpoints to prompts, agents, and API, and the need to consider secure operations when adopting AI has increased.
Fortinet launched FortiAIGate this year to protect large language models (LLM). With the Virtue AI acquisition, Fortinet will expand its security coverage to AI models, applications, and agents, spanning from the development stage to the production stage.
Virtue AI provides preemptive red-teaming for AI agent vulnerabilities across more than 50 virtual environments and also supports preemptive diagnostics for AI agent vulnerabilities in 14 high-risk areas. Its coverage spans hundreds of attack types and more than 1,000 risk items, and it includes automatic checks for new risks when models are updated, automatic checks for new risks when policies are adjusted, and evidence-generation features for audit response. Security teams can review the results as needed.
Fortinet provides customers with its AI-Native Security Fabric for integrated protection across networks, endpoints, cloud, applications, and AI systems. The acquisition follows FortiAIGate and will further strengthen security capabilities for AI operations.
Ken Xie, Fortinet's chairman and CEO, said that because AI has changed the way people work, security must also evolve at the pace of AI. He added that based on Virtue AI's technology, the company plans to support end-to-end safe management of customers' AI systems and operations tailored to the size of their businesses.
Source: IT DAILY · Kim Ho-jun
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