Fortinet and NVIDIA partner to secure enterprise AI scaling with FortiAIGate. It aims to protect AI workloads, data, and autonomous agents.
The joint solution will enable organizations to monitor AI usage, and securely build, deploy, and scale agentic AI without compromising performance or governance. The solution’s inline deployment provides visibility while supporting data sovereignty requirements, delivering high-performance protection with minimal latency.
“Enterprises everywhere are racing to adopt AI, and security has become a critical enabler of that innovation. Together with NVIDIA, we’re delivering a solution that helps organizations secure and optimize AI deployments while maintaining performance, controlling costs, and meeting data sovereignty requirements. FortiAIGate combines Fortinet’s AI-driven Security Fabric with NVIDIA’s high-performance computing and AI factories to stop threats, from malicious prompts to data exfiltration, without disrupting AI workflows.”
John Whittle, Chief Operating Officer at Fortinet
“The accelerating shift toward autonomous AI agents is creating unprecedented demand for secure, high-performance enterprise computing platforms. By integrating its FortiAIGate solution with the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform, Fortinet provides zero-trust security and real-time governance, reducing threat exposure by shortening response times.”
Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI Platforms, NVIDIA
Business Benefits of FortiAIGate for AI-Driven Enterprises
- Accelerated, safe AI runtime: FortiAIGate offers a secure environment for organizations to quickly implement AI-driven applications and autonomous agents. It enforces security measures for large language models during operation, safeguarding associated systems. Utilizing NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Hopper along with the NVIDIA Dynamo framework, it delivers high performance, allowing businesses to leverage AI efficiently without delays. This design promotes rapid innovation in AI with integrated security.
- AI sovereignty: FortiAIGate offers self-hosting deployment modes that allow organizations to develop and govern AI on their own infrastructure, ensuring compliance with local laws and utilizing NVIDIA Nemotron safety models. It monitors user and device interactions, logging suspicious incidents, thereby reducing reliance on foreign AI providers and ensuring data remains within national borders, aligning with local privacy regulations like GDPR.
- Zero-trust AI environments: FortiAIGate implements zero-trust security for AI environments, safeguarding against LLM misuse and data breaches. It regulates AI model traffic, enforcing strict controls to obstruct prompt injection attacks and filter inappropriate content. By understanding business contexts, FortiAIGate ensures AI operations maintain integrity, trustworthiness, and compliance.
- Operational efficiency and lower TCO: FortiAIGate, built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, offers high-throughput AI security with significantly lower hardware requirements and energy consumption compared to traditional solutions. This allows organizations to protect AI applications with low latency while reducing server load and power costs, leading to improved performance and higher ROI for AI initiatives by freeing up CPU cycles.
- Scalable multitenant protection: FortiAIGate is designed for scalable AI deployments and multitenant environments in enterprises and AI data centers. Utilizing NVIDIA virtualization techniques, it securely partitions resources and isolates AI workloads or datasets on the same hardware. The NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU technology enables a single GPU to be divided into independent instances, ensuring quality of service and fault isolation, preventing performance degradation between AI services.
Flexible Deployment from Cloud to Edge (All Modes)
FortiAIGate supports flexible deployment across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. It is available as a GPU-powered appliance for data centers or as a virtual appliance or as containers on NVIDIA-Certified Systems. Regardless of form factor, organizations benefit from consistent protection and centralized management. Its inline deployment between applications and AI models also helps meet data sovereignty requirements.
A New Standard for Secure AI Ecosystems
Fortinet is establishing a new standard for securing AI ecosystems. By combining zero-trust enforcement, real-time threat detection, and AI-specific guardrails, FortiAIGate enables organizations to confidently scale AI, from advanced analytics to autonomous agents, with security and compliance built in. This collaboration reinforces both companies’ commitment to secure-by-design innovation in the AI era.
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