Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI as the cybersecurity company expands protection for artificial intelligence applications and autonomous agents.
Virtue AI specializes in AI runtime protection, automated validation and security for autonomous systems. Its capabilities will be incorporated into Fortinet’s broader AI security portfolio and complement FortiAIGate.
Securing Autonomous Agents
The acquisition addresses a growing challenge for enterprise IT teams as AI applications gain access to business systems, APIs and external tools.
Virtue AI’s technology can monitor agents and AI tools, discover unsanctioned AI applications, scan MCP tools and source code and block malicious tool calls.
Its agentic red-teaming technology can also test autonomous agents across more than 50 sandboxed environments and 14 high-stakes domains.
Continuous AI Validation
Virtue AI is designed to repeatedly test AI systems as models, policies and applications change.
Automated red teaming covers hundreds of attack vectors and more than 1,000 risk categories, according to Fortinet.
Real-time guardrails can enforce policies across text, images, audio, video and AI-generated code.
The acquisition gives Fortinet additional capabilities across both pre-deployment testing and production AI monitoring as enterprises increasingly move agentic applications into operational environments.