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Real-time Everywhere Protection Against All Types of Threats

FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services deliver real-time, proactive, and layered defense across your entire infrastructure. Comprising of 20+ services integrated throughout the Fortinet Security Fabric, they provide comprehensive protection from the full spectrum of threats everywhere. This includes networks, files, content, web traffic, SaaS deployments, data, users, and critical infrastructure—ensuring compliance, data integrity, and real-time protection.

These AI-powered services are available either as a-la-carte or as Bundles to meet your security needs.

Powered by FortiGuard Labs

FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s threat research organization, uses AI, ML, and deep learning to provide real-time, contextual, and actionable threat intelligence that enables all of the FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services to proactively protect an organization’s attack surface against all types of threats in real time.

  • Fight AI-driven threats with AI
    FortiGuard Security Services uses native AI across the Fortinet Security Fabric for a proactive, layered defense against modern AI-powered threats. Leveraging vast global threat intelligence, it rapidly identifies and adapts to evasive threats, boosting accuracy and evolving with the threat landscape.

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  • Always-on, proactive protection
    FortiGuard Security Services are continuously updated by threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs. Our global telemetry resources, advanced AI/ML, and expert research ensure proactive real-time defense against new, emerging, and AI-driven attacks with always-on protection.

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  • Seamless, unified, integrated defense
    FortiGuard Security Services are engineered for seamless, native integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric. This ensures unified protection, comprehensive visibility, and automated response across your attack surface. This deep integration eliminates complexity, silos, and point solution isolation to provide a truly coordinated defense.

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Features and Benefits

FortiGuard Labs applies deep visibility, insights, and expertise to the development and ongoing enhancement of FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services, a robust set of best-of-breed security capabilities integrated into Fortinet solutions.
 

Comprehensive Coverage


Proactive protection across broad attack surface- network, Web, Files, Apps, Endpoints, Data, SaaS & OT.

Flexible Solutions


Tailored for diverse needs and budgets, offering a-la-carte or bundled options for enhanced security posture.

Enhanced Detection


Advanced AI/ML engines identify and block unknown attacks, & AI-driven threats, boosting detection and accuracy.

Layered Protection


Enhances security controls by adding protection layers for enhanced, coordinated defense & real-time response to attacks.

Native AI


AI/ML is embedded in FortiGuard, providing inherently accurate rapid detection & protection against unseen threats.

Actionable Insights & Visibility


Transforms threat data into clear insights, providing full security posture visibility for context aware decisions.

Use Cases

Advanced Threat Protection


Provides real-time, AI/ML-powered defense against all types of advanced threats including sophisticated AI-enhanced malware and zero-day exploits.

Secure Web & Content Access


Blocks malicious websites, phishing attempts, and inappropriate content, ensuring safe and productive internet usage.

Network Intrusion Prevention


Proactively stops network attacks, exploits, and application vulnerabilities before they can compromise systems.

Protect Critical Infrastructure


Secures Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) from cyber threats with specialized intelligence and controls.

Policy & Compliance Enforcement


Enforces comprehensive security policies across network and applications, ensuring compliance with diverse regulatory requirements.

Data Protection



Protects against shadow AI, prevents sensitive data from unauthorized exfiltration, monitors data movement, and ensures compliance.

GenAI App Visibility & Control


Gains full visibility into GenAI app usage, enforces access policies, prevents data leaks, promptware, and controls responses for secure AI adoption.

FortiGuard Services Portfolio

FortiGuard's AI-powered security solution is a robust suite of over 20 services, natively integrated into Fortinet's Security Fabric. This powerful combination delivers layered, proactive, and real-time protection against a vast array of evolving threat vectors. It's designed to combat everything from common ransomware and malware to emerging "promptware" and the most sophisticated unknown, unseen, and AI-driven attacks. By covering your entire attack surface, from IT to OT environments, FortiGuard significantly elevates and maintains a high security posture for your organization, ensuring your defenses are always a step ahead.

FortiGuard Antivirus Service
FortiGuard Antivirus Service

Protects against the latest polymorphic attacks, viruses, malware (including ransomware), and other threats.

FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service
FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service

Performs AI-powered real-time inspection of files for protection against unknown threats, zero-days, and sophisticated file-based attacks.

FortiGuard IPS Service
FortiGuard IPS Service

Utilizes the latest threat intelligence to perform deep packet inspection/SSL inspection of network traffic to detect and block malicious traffic and activities.

FortiGuard DNS Security Service
FortiGuard DNS Security Service

Provides full visibility into DNS traffic while blocking high-risk domains including malicious newly registered domains (NRDs) and parked domains.

FortiGuard URL Filtering Service
FortiGuard URL Filtering Service

Uses AI-powered behavior analysis and correlation to block unknown malicious URLs almost immediately, with near-zero false negatives.

FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service
FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service

Assesses and rates your Security Fabric infrastructure and controls against best practices and major security and compliance frameworks. Includes coverage for connected IoT devices.

FortiGuard Anti-botnet and C2 Service
FortiGuard Anti-botnet and C2 Service

Blocks unauthorized attempts to communicate with compromised remote servers for both receiving malicious commands and extracting information.

FortiGuard Data Loss Prevention Service
FortiGuard Data Loss Prevention Service

Enterprise DLP services protect against data breaches, insider threats, and data exfiltration. Explore FortiGuard DLP Service to safeguard sensitive information and ensure compliance with over 500 data patterns.

FortiGuard Application Control Service
FortiGuard Application Control Service

Allows the creation of policies to allow, deny, or restrict access to applications and keep malicious, risky, and unwanted applications out of the network.

Cloud Access Security Broker
Cloud Access Security Broker

Provides a dual-mode (inline and API-based) cloud access security broker (CASB) solution for securing applications, monitoring their usage, and safeguarding related data.

FortiGuard OT Security Service
FortiGuard OT Security Service

Extends IPS protections to identify and police most of the common ICS/OT/SCADA protocols to detect and block exploits targeting OT vulnerabilities.

FortiGuard AntiSpam Service
FortiGuard AntiSpam Service

Dramatically reduces spam at the perimeter through a multi-layered approach to filtering unwanted and malicious email.

Additional FortiGuard Services

In addition to the core FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services and real-time threat intelligence, FortiGuard offers specialized services to enhance your security posture and address operational challenges. These include expert-led MDR, SOCaaS, Incident Response and Preparedness, and comprehensive Cybersecurity Assessments to ensure robust protection and optimized security operations.

 

Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

FortiGuard MDR provides 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, and response for FortiEDR/XDR users, protecting you according to your risk.

SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS)

FortiGuard SOCaaS provides 24/7 expert security coverage, eliminating the struggle to hire and retain professionals while reducing costs.

Incident Response and Readiness Service

FortiGuard Advisory Services help organizations prepare effectively and respond rapidly to threats and security incidents.


 

Resources

Solution Briefs
Get Comprehensive, Scalable Protection with FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services Bundles for FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls
Get Comprehensive, Scalable Protection with FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services Bundles for FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls »

Optimized for FortiGate NGFWs, these curated service bundles help security and network teams protect their environments with layered, adaptive defense, whether at the branch, campus, data center, or in the cloud.

FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services
FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services »

The suite of FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services delivers real-time multilayered, proactive defense to safeguard networks, applications, files, web traffic, data, devices, cloud workloads, and users from traditional and AI-driven attacks.

FortiGate Subscriptions & FortiGuard Bundles Ordering Guide
FortiGate Subscriptions & FortiGuard Bundles Ordering Guide »

FortiGate Subscriptions & FortiGuard Bundles Ordering Guide

AI-Powered Threat Protection for Small and Midsize Businesses
AI-Powered Threat Protection for Small and Midsize Businesses »

SMBs need the same caliber of protections that enterprises do. FortiGuard AIPowered Security Services is developed and continually updated with the latest threat intelligence of FortiGuard Labs.

Stop Zero-Day Threats with the FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service
Stop Zero-Day Threats with the FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service »

Instead of forcing a choice between security and performance, the FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service holds suspicious files until they are found to be safe, without any performance impact.

FortiGuard DNS Filtering Service Brief
FortiGuard DNS Filtering Service Brief »

The FortiGuard DNS Filtering Service provides full visibility into DNS traffic while blocking high-risk domains. It protects against sophisticated DNS-based threats including DNS tunneling, DNS spoofing, dynamic DNS, and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs).

FortiGuard URL Filtering Service Brief
FortiGuard URL Filtering Service Brief »

Stop web-based threats by blocking URLs associated with malicious websites and webpages, including those used in phishing, credential theft, and malicious payloads, such as downloaders and ransomware.

FortiGuard Antivirus Service Brief
FortiGuard Antivirus Service Brief »

By leveraging the technology stack and FortiGuard Labs global threat intelligence, FortiGuard Antivirus provides comprehensive protection against a wide range of threats, including viruses, malware, ransomware, and zero-day attacks.

FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service
FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service »

The FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service is integrated into FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) and continuously monitors and assesses the Fortinet Security Fabric infrastructure and controls at your organization to provide an overall rating of your security posture.

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