Fortinet partners with NVIDIA for enterprise AI agent security and governance

Fortinet has partnered with NVIDIA to integrate the GPU giant’s AI platforms and software technologies into its FortiAIGate product.

The joint solution is designed to protect AI workloads, data and autonomous agents in real-time in data centres and the cloud, aiming to enable customers to monitor AI usage, and securely build, deploy and scale agentic AI without governance or performance compromises.

FortiAIGate applies security guardrails for large language models (LLMs) at runtime and protects the ecosystem behind it, including model context protocol (MCP) servers and AI agents.

Accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and NVIDIA Hopper with the latest open-source, distributed inference-serving framework NVIDIA Dynamo, it operates at high performance so businesses can harness AI productivity gains without incurring unnecessary latency, slowdowns, or service degradation, Fortinet claims.

With its self-hosting deployment modes, FortiAIGate means organisations can develop, deploy, and govern AI using their own infrastructure, data, and workforce, ensuring compliance with local laws and security requirements, utilising NVIDIA Nemotron safety models. 

FortiAIGate is also architected for scale-out AI deployments and multitenant environments common in enterprises and AI data centres. It uses NVIDIA virtualisation techniques to securely partition resources and isolate different AI workloads or customer datasets on the same hardware.

Technologies such as NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU allow a single physical GPU to be split into multiple independent GPU instances with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) and fault isolation, so one AI service cannot interfere with or degrade the performance of another.

FortiAIGate supports deployment across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. It is available as a GPU-powered appliance for data centres or as a virtual appliance or as containers on NVIDIA-Certified Systems.

“Together with NVIDIA, we’re delivering a solution that helps organisations secure and optimise AI deployments while maintaining performance, controlling costs, and meeting data sovereignty requirements,” said John Whittle, chief operating officer at Fortinet.

“FortiAIGate combines Fortinet’s AI-driven Security Fabric with NVIDIA’s high-performance computing and AI factories to stop threats, from malicious prompts to data exfiltration, without disrupting AI workflows."

“The accelerating shift toward autonomous AI agents is creating unprecedented demand for secure, high-performance enterprise computing platforms," Justin Boitano, VP of enterprise AI platforms at NVIDIA.

"By integrating its FortiAIGate solution with the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform, Fortinet provides zero-trust security and real-time governance, reducing threat exposure by shortening response times.”