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Fortinet

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Hardware

Network security vendor whose FortiGate appliances and FortiAI assistant use machine learning to detect, correlate and automate response to threats across its Security Fabric platform.

Total funding—

Market cap$124.8B

Employees15,109

Founded2000

HeadquartersSunnyvale, USA

StatusPublic

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• FortiAIGate Infrastructure service

  A runtime security proxy deployed between applications and LLM endpoints that blocks prompt injection, jailbreaking, model poisoning and excessive-consumption attacks and enforces context-aware data-loss prevention on AI traffic.

• FortiAIOps Platform

  Applies AI/ML analysis to telemetry from Fortinet network devices to detect pattern anomalies and automate network troubleshooting.

• FortiNDR Application

  Uses AI-based behavioural analysis of network traffic to detect lateral movement, data exfiltration and privilege escalation without endpoint agents, sold as on-premises appliances and VMs or as FortiNDR Cloud.

• FortiAI-Assist Application

  AI orchestration platform automating security and network operations: alert triage/investigation, network configuration validation, and threat hunting, integrated across Fortinet's management products.

• FortiAI-Protect Application

  Discovers, controls and governs AI use across enterprise environments: shadow-AI detection (6,500+ AI application URLs), AI-application visibility (FortiView for AI), and AI-workload data-loss prevention.

• FortiDLP Application

  Cloud-native data-loss-prevention agent combining machine-learning content/context analysis with a GenAI-powered assistant that summarizes and contextualizes incidents for insider-risk and data-egress protection.

• FortiMail Application

  Email security gateway combining machine learning, LLM-based content analysis and image recognition to detect phishing, BEC and other threats across the email lifecycle.

• FortiSandbox Application

  Sandbox appliance/service for zero-day and advanced-threat detection, using AI-powered analysis (a purpose-built ML engine plus artificial neural networks) alongside static and dynamic analysis to accelerate verdicts.

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Sources

Market cap

Third-party database · 31 Aug 2026

Market capitalisation $124.82B, share price $170.12, page stamped "Aug 31, 2026, 1:31 PM EDT - Market open". Same source and pattern as every other public company's market cap in this dataset.

Employees

Regulatory filing · 31 Dec 2025

Same Form 10-K. States: "As of December 31, 2025, our total headcount was 15,109 employees."

Founded

Wikipedia · 31 Aug 2026

Infobox "Founded" field gives 2000, Sunnyvale, California, by Ken Xie and Michael Xie.

Revenue (TTM)

Regulatory filing · 31 Dec 2025

Fortinet, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, CIK 0001262039, certified 2026-02-24. States: "During the year ended December 31, 2025, we generated total revenue of $6.80 billion and net income [of $1.85 billion]."

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