Fortinet vs Sama

Fortinet — Hardware · Public · $124.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Sama — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

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

Aligned comparison

FieldFortinetSama
Size$124.8B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees15,109—
Founded20002008 8 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryHardwareInfrastructure
Stack layerApplication, Infrastructure service, PlatformData service, Platform
HeadquartersSunnyvale, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyWorkflow automation

Not verified for Sama · 2

Data securityThreat detection and response

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

Not verified for Fortinet · 1

Data labelling

Recorded for Sama. Fortinet’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

Fortinet

Platform

FortiAIOpsPlatform

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

Sama

Platform

Sama PlatformPlatform

Sama's data annotation and validation platform, combining annotation tooling, SamaAssure quality assurance, SamaHub project management and reporting, and SamaIQ analytics, with a REST API and CLI for pipeline integration.

No counterpart

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Data service

Sama AnnotateData service

Sama Annotate is Sama's enterprise data annotation offering, delivering image, video and 3D point cloud labeling through a full-time in-house annotation workforce working on the Sama Platform, with CLI and API access for automated data workflows.

Sama CurateData service

Sama Curate is a data curation offering that uses filtering and curation algorithms to suggest which assets in a raw dataset should be labeled, so teams annotate only the data most likely to improve an ML model.

Sama GenAIData service

Sama GenAI supplies human-generated training and evaluation data for foundation models, covering model validation and fact checking, instruction following, preference ranking, image and video captioning, creative writing, synthetic data creation and RAG evaluation.

Sama ValidateData service

Sama Validate is a managed human-in-the-loop service in which trained reviewers inspect and correct a customer's model predictions across image, video and 3D point cloud data and report where the model performs well or poorly.