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The endpoint has become the center of modern work. Employees use endpoint devices to access applications, interact with sensitive data, connect remotely, and increasingly rely on AI applications to improve productivity. While AI creates new opportunities, it also introduces new challenges involving visibility, governance, data protection, and operational complexity. At the same time, organizations continue to face ever-evolving traditional threats and new AI-driven attacks. IT security teams are often forced to manage risks using multiple products for endpoint protection, detection and response, secure access, and data protection. This results in fragmented visibility, operational silos, increased complexity, and higher costs.

Fortinet FortiEndpoint delivers a unified endpoint platform that combines all necessary endpoint security controls with AI-assisted operations in a single solution. This approach helps organizations reduce complexity, strengthen security, and securely embrace AI.

Why a unified approach is needed

Security teams face growing pressure from escalating cyberthreats and emerging AI-related risks. Employees increasingly use AI tools to summarize documents, generate content, write code, and automate workflows. However, many organizations have little-to-no visibility into which AI applications are being used, what data is being shared with them, and whether that usage complies with corporate policies. 

Adding to these challenges, endpoint environments have become increasingly fragmented, reducing overall visibility and making management more difficult. Organizations often deploy five or more separate agents and management consoles for endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), secure access, data protection, vulnerability management, and compliance. These disconnected solutions increase operational complexity, create visibility gaps, raise costs, and make it difficult to enforce consistent security policies. Security operations teams are also challenged by growing alert volumes and limited resources, so improving analyst efficiency is a critical requirement for the security operations center (SOC).

FortiEndpoint solves today's endpoint security challenges

FortiEndpoint is a unified endpoint platform that brings together advanced endpoint protection, EDR, virtual private network (VPN) and zero-trust network access (ZTNA), data loss prevention (DLP), endpoint risk management, and AI-assisted investigation and response capabilities. By consolidating multiple security capabilities into one platform, built on one agent, managed through one console, and requiring only one license, FortiEndpoint enables organizations to reduce tool sprawl, simplify management, and improve security. FortiEndpoint provides a consistent operational experience while helping organizations govern AI usage, protect sensitive data, secure endpoints, and reduce operational complexity.

Gain visibility and control over AI usage

FortiEndpoint provides centralized visibility into AI applications and AI agents operating across managed endpoints. Security teams gain a single-pane-of-glass view into AI usage, including installed applications, user activity, and usage patterns. Builtin dashboards help identify shadow AI activity and provide the insights needed to establish governance policies that align with organizational security and compliance requirements. Organizations can define guardrails that allow, restrict, monitor, or block AI applications based on business requirements, enabling innovation while maintaining control over AI usage.

Protect sensitive data and reduce insider risk 

DLP is integrated directly into the FortiEndpoint platform, enabling organizations to inspect, classify, and govern sensitive data exchanged with AI applications, AI agents, web applications, and cloud services using centralized policies. When users attempt actions that violate policy, such as uploading sensitive data to an unauthorized AI application, FortiEndpoint can automatically block, warn, or coach the user in real time. These contextual coaching prompts help users make safer decisions at the moment of risk, reducing accidental data exposure and insider risk without requiring separate security awareness training.

Prevent advanced threats with endpoint protection

FortiEndpoint delivers advanced endpoint protection through AI-powered antivirus, behavioral analysis, anti-ransomware and antiexploit protection, web filtering, application firewalling, sandbox integration, and vulnerability management. By combining multiple prevention technologies into a unified platform, organizations can reduce their attack surface and stop threats before they disrupt the organization. 

Detect, investigate, and respond with EDR 

FortiEndpoint provides integrated EDR capabilities that continuously monitor endpoint activity, correlate behavioral indicators, and deliver rich endpoint telemetry, attack timelines, and investigation tools. Security teams can quickly understand attacker behavior, determine the scope of compromise, and accelerate response by isolating compromised devices, terminating malicious processes, and remediating threats. 

Reduce endpoint risk via continuous assessment

FortiEndpoint continuously evaluates endpoint posture and generates dynamic risk and compliance scores based on device health, security status, and policy compliance. These insights help organizations identify high-risk devices, prioritize remediation efforts, and better understand their overall endpoint security posture. 2 Unify AI Security, Data Protection, Endpoint Security, and Secure Access with FortiEndpoint.

Risk-aware visibility provides security teams with the context needed to strengthen security controls and reduce organizational exposure.

Strengthen zero-trust access 

FortiEndpoint strengthens zero-trust strategies by providing continuous visibility into endpoint health and compliance posture. Security teams can leverage endpoint risk context to make more informed access decisions and reduce exposure from compromised or non-compliant devices. By integrating endpoint security and secure access into a single platform, FortiEndpoint helps organizations improve security while delivering a seamless user experience. Accelerate security operations with FortiAI-Assist FortiEndpoint includes FortiAI-Assist to help accelerate investigation, response, and administrative workflows. Embedded throughout the platform, FortiAI-Assist helps analysts investigate threats, summarize findings, streamline threat hunting, simplify troubleshooting, and improve operational efficiency.

Extending endpoint security beyond prevention and detection

Endpoint security is no longer just about preventing malware. Organizations must also govern AI usage, protect sensitive data, continuously assess endpoint risk, provide adaptive secure access, and enable security teams to respond faster with fewer resources. FortiEndpoint takes a better approach by consolidating key security products into a single platform. This unified architecture simplifies deployment, streamlines administration, reduces tool sprawl, lowers operational overhead, and delivers a consistent security experience across users and devices.