Fortinet, SentinelOne and CrowdStrike debut new AI security features – News

Three of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies today announced product updates designed to help enterprises protect their artificial intelligence workloads.

Fortinet Inc. debuted a firewall appliance optimized for AI workloads. SentinelOne Inc. and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., in turn, introduced new AI features focused on making cybersecurity teams more productive.

Nasdaq-listed Fortinet provides software that enterprises use to find vulnerabilities in their infrastructure, protect publicly-facing applications from bots and perform related tasks. The company also sells a line of physical firewall appliances. As part of today’s product update, the company expanded its firewall portfolio with a new system known as the FortiGate 3800G.

The device is powered by two custom chips called NP7 and SP5. According to Fortinet, it can scan network traffic for threats at a rate of 800 gigabits per second. The firewall also includes a virtual private network feature that enables workers to remotely log into business applications. A single FortiGate 3800G can process 210 gigabits of VPN traffic per second.

The firewall is part of a new offering called Secure AI Data Center. Fortinet describes it as a framework for protecting large language models and other components of companies’ AI infrastructure.

“AI data centers demand both massive performance and deep protection,” said Nirav Shah, Fortinet’s senior vice president of products and solutions. “Our Secure AI Data Center solution unifies those capabilities, combining ASIC-powered firewalls like the FortiGate 3800G with advanced protection for data, applications and LLMs.”

SentinelOne is holding its annual OneCon conference in Las Vegas today. The company debuted several product updates during the event, including a suite of four cybersecurity tools focused on AI applications.

Organizations can use the toolkit to prevent employees from entering business data into insecure AI services. It works with more than 15,000 AI websites out of the box. When users interact with a coding assistant, the software not only scans their prompts for sensitive data but also filters any insecure or malicious code the assistant may output in response. 

The third focus of SentinelOne’s new toolkit is protecting MCP-powered AI agents. Customers can now more easily scan such agents for cybersecurity risks.

SentinelOne also introduced a second set of product updates at OneCon today. They’re rolling out for its Purple AI assistant, which automates repetitive aspects of cybersecurity teams’ work. The enhancements will make the assistant better at investigating breaches and generating detection rules, which are code snippets that can automatically spot malicious activity.

“Static signatures and brittle logic can’t match the velocity of modern threats,” SentinelOne Chief Executive Officer Tomer Weingarten wrote in a blog post today. “True protection emerges when AI continuously learns, reasons, and adapts — detecting intent, not just pattern.”

CrowdStrike is also integrating more AI features into its product portfolio. The company today introduced a new tool, Charlotte Agentic SOAR, that can be used to create cybersecurity automation workflows comprised of multiple AI agents. An administrator could, for example, create a workflow that detects server breaches and disconnects the affected machines from the corporate network.

CrowdStrike also announced a partnership with CoreWeave Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized for AI applications. The collaboration will make it easier for joint customers to protect their CoreWeave-hosted workloads using CrowdStrike’s software.

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