Fortinet Acquires AI Security Firm Virtue AI

Fortinet announced Monday it has acquired Virtue AI, an AI security company that builds automated testing, runtime protection and governance tools for models, conversational applications and autonomous agents. Financial terms were not disclosed; Fortinet said the amount was immaterial to the company. Virtue AI raised $30 million in seed and Series A funding in 2025.

Virtue’s enterprise security and governance platform is designed to test, protect and monitor AI systems across development and live operation. The platform performs automated red‑teaming using more than 100 proprietary attack algorithms across hundreds of attack vectors and risk categories to identify vulnerabilities in models and applications.

For agentic and autonomous systems, the platform can simulate dozens of enterprise scenarios to evaluate how agents use tools, access systems and carry out multi‑step workflows. During live operation, the technology applies runtime guardrails across text, code, audio, video and image processing. The system actively monitors agents to block unsafe actions before they execute, scans generated code and tools for vulnerabilities, and enforces customizable security policies.

Fortinet plans to integrate Virtue’s capabilities into its existing AI security offering, including agentic system red‑teaming, agent protection and governance, continuous AI validation and real‑time guardrails. The company said the integration will support governance and protection of AI systems from pre‑deployment testing through runtime enforcement in production environments.

“AI is fundamentally changing enterprise computing, and security must evolve just as quickly,” Ken Xie, founder and CEO of Fortinet, commented. He added that Virtue AI’s technology will advance Fortinet’s approach to continuous AI assurance and help customers operate AI systems at enterprise scale.

Organizations are deploying more generative models, conversational agents and autonomous tools that can act across corporate systems. That growth has increased demand for automated testing, policy enforcement and runtime controls to limit risks such as data leakage, unauthorized actions and insecure code generation.

Fortinet, a long‑standing vendor in network and enterprise security, has been expanding its AI‑focused protections as customers add AI capabilities. The company said Virtue’s automated validation and governance features are intended to be applied across Fortinet’s security product portfolio to address agentic behavior and multi‑modal data processing.