Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming many aspects of business, daily life, and society. It affects nearly all of us somehow—whether we are aware of its specific influence or not. Across industries, AI offers opportunities and challenges, and this is especially true for cybersecurity. Bad actors use AI-based attacks that move more quickly and are more difficult to stop. Organizations are adopting AI systems, but they are vulnerable and need to be protected, ironically, from AI-based (and other) attacks. Harnessing AI to fight cyberattacks offers several benefits and is critical for staying ahead of today’s ever-evolving threat landscape. A few key examples of AI benefits include faster threat detection and response, the ability to extract more information faster from vast datasets, and helping close the cybersecurity skills gap with automation.

In essence, while AI offers unprecedented defensive capabilities for threat detection and response, its potential weaponization by adversaries necessitates robust security frameworks to ensure AI remains a tool for protection, not a source of vulnerability. Fortinet embeds diverse AI technologies in solutions across the Fortinet Security Fabric to deliver advanced AI-driven security and automation without additional complexity. FortiAI offers key differentiators across three main areas: protection against emerging threats and AI applications, automated security and network operations, and security for AI assets.