Arctic Wolf vs Fortinet

Arctic Wolf — Application · Private · Undisclosed  |  Fortinet — Hardware · Public · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Aurora Endpoint Security and FortiEDR both list threat detection and response; Arctic Wolf's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 shared capabilitiesShared product type

3 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list data analysis, threat detection and response and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship application, infrastructure service and platform.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldArctic WolfFortinet
StageUndisclosedPublic
Founded—2000
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryApplicationHardware
Stack layerAI agent, API service, Application, Infrastructure service, PlatformAgent platform, Application, Infrastructure service, Platform
HeadquartersEden Prairie, USASunnyvale, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisThreat detection and responseWorkflow automation

Not verified for Fortinet · 1

Agent orchestration

Recorded for Arctic Wolf. Fortinet’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Arctic Wolf · 4

Brand protectionData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safety

Recorded for Fortinet. Arctic Wolf’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Arctic Wolf

Application

Aurora Endpoint SecurityApplication

Endpoint protection built on Cylance's predictive AI model, sold as Aurora Protect (next-generation antivirus that blocks malware before execution), Aurora Endpoint Defense (EDR with behavioural detection and threat hunting), managed tiers triaged by Arctic Wolf's SOC, and Aurora Mobile Threat Defense for phones and tablets.

Aurora Managed Detection and ResponseApplication

A service that monitors networks, endpoints, and cloud environments and responds to threats through the Aurora Agentic SOC.

Aurora Managed Endpoint DefenseApplication

A managed extended detection and response service for endpoints with alert triage by the Aurora Agentic SOC.

Aurora Mobile Threat DefenseApplication

Uses on-device AI to protect mobile devices against phishing, malicious applications, and risky networks.

Aurora Security AssistantApplication

Generative AI assistant in Arctic Wolf's Unified Portal, built with Anthropic, that answers security questions in twelve languages, summarises alerts and adds context to the customer's open tickets, vulnerabilities and incident trends as a 24/7 self-service companion to the Concierge Security Team.

Platform

Aurora Superintelligence PlatformPlatform

The technology underneath Arctic Wolf's security operations services: an open data pipeline that ingests and enriches telemetry from a customer's existing tools, the Security Operations Graph of curated security data, the Swarm of Experts agent framework and an AI Trust Engine that bounds agent autonomy and escalates novel cases to human analysts; the agentic SOC and endpoint security are recorded separately.

Infrastructure service

Aurora AIInfrastructure service

Provides AI capabilities for threat prevention, behavioral detection, and security workflow automation within the Aurora Superintelligence Platform.

Fortinet

Application

FortiAI-AssistApplication

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

FortiAI-ProtectApplication

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.

FortiDLPApplication

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.

FortiEDRApplication

FortiEDR identifies and stops breaches in real time.

FortiMailApplication

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

FortiNDRApplication

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.

FortiReconApplication

FortiRecon uses AI to prioritize vulnerability exposure and provides threat exposure management.

FortiSandboxApplication

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.

FortiWebApplication

FortiWeb uses AI to detect zero-day exploits.

FortiXDRApplication

FortiXDR uses deep learning to automate incident investigation actions.

Platform

FortiAIOpsPlatform

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

FortiAppSec CloudPlatform

FortiAppSec Cloud uses an AI engine to detect zero-day exploits.

FortiEndpointPlatform

FortiEndpoint combines endpoint protection and detection in a single agent with an AI-assisted management console.

FortiGuard AI-Powered Security ServicesPlatform

Provides AI-powered threat detection and layered defense across infrastructure.

FortiMail Workspace SecurityPlatform

FortiMail Workspace Security uses AI to protect email, browsers, collaboration tools, and cloud applications.

FortiSIEMPlatform

FortiSIEM collects IT/OT events and uses analytics and machine learning for threat detection.

FortiSOCPlatform

FortiSOC is a SaaS security operations platform with AI for alert triage and threat detection.

Infrastructure service

FortiAIGateInfrastructure 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.

No counterpart

Arctic Wolf sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Fortinet yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Aurora EngineAPI service

Embeddable malware-detection engine licensed to OEMs that brings the machine-learning model inside Aurora Endpoint Security to other products, scoring files and assigning a reputation verdict offline or online for network gateways, SaaS file scanning, sandboxes, medical devices and IoT.

AI agent

Aurora Agentic SOCAI agent

AI agents that triage alerts, investigate, hunt threats and recommend or take response actions inside Arctic Wolf's managed detection and response service.

Fortinet sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Arctic Wolf yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

FortiSOARAgent platform

FortiSOAR combines agentic AI and SOAR automation for security alert investigation.