Fortinet launches Fortinet Advisor, a generative AI assistant

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WINMAG Pro Editorial Team

Fri, 13 March 2026, 08:30

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Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in cybersecurity and the driving force behind the convergence of networking and security technology, adds a new solution to its portfolio of over 40 AI-powered security products. This is Fortinet Advisor, a generative AI (GenAI) assistant. Fortinet Advisor is currently part of FortiSIEM, Fortinet's security information & event management (SIEM) solution, and FortiSOAR, its security orchestration, automation & response (SOAR) solution. Fortinet Advisor is continuously updated and optimized by Fortinet's AI and product specialists. These experts regularly refresh the knowledge base of the GenAI assistant with current threat information and optimize the interactions and results of the solution.

Fortinet's Security Operations solutions enable organizations to reduce the time required to identify and contain cyber threats from over 20 days to less than an hour. The time needed for investigation and recovery can be reduced from 18 hours to 15 minutes or less.1 Fortinet Advisor provides context-aware analysis of incidents, assists in recovering from attacks, and offers templates for incident response playbooks. The GenAI solution provides SecOps teams with crucial information in seconds based on natural language. This allows them to reduce the average time required for detection and incident response and improve enterprise-wide security.

Specific benefits of Fortinet Advisor for SecOps teams include:

Interpretation of security incidents: Fortinet Advisor performs a rapid analysis of security alerts. The assistant then generates understandable summaries of security incidents in seconds, including context and potential consequences.
Building complex queries for security investigations: Fortinet Advisor assists security analysts with their investigations by generating productive queries. Analysts can specify in natural language what insights they want to gain. Fortinet Advisor generates queries with the exact syntax needed to obtain actionable results.
Developing plans to address cyber threats: Fortinet Advisor enables rapid incident response by providing plans to address cyber threats. The assistant can also refine these plans based on real-time feedback from security analysts.
Assistance in creating playbooks: Security architects can ask Fortinet Advisor to generate templates for playbooks and quickly translate processes into practically executable plans.

AI has been at the core of the Fortinet Security Fabric and FortiGuard Labs security services for over ten years. The deployment of GenAI is a new innovation from Fortinet aimed at protecting organizations and keeping their business processes running. The first version of Fortinet Advisor will provide security operations (SecOps) teams with effective support and guidance, enabling them to analyze and address cyber threats faster than ever.

"Fortinet has played a pioneering role in the use of artificial intelligence for security applications over the past few years. We have delivered over 40 AI-powered security solutions that empower our customers with the transformative power of this technology," says Michael Xie, founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of Fortinet. "We are excited to build on our successful track record as an innovation leader in AI-powered cybersecurity with Fortinet Advisor. This solution combines the power of Fortinet's global threat intelligence network with the benefits of GenAI to enhance the productivity of security teams. They can detect and neutralize cyber threats faster."

Extensive experience in threat research, prevention, detection, and incident response based on AI

Fortinet has been an innovation leader in AI for over ten years. More than 700,000 customers are already using its AI-powered security solutions, including FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services, FortiAIOps, FortiEDR, and FortiAnalyzer. The use of AI within the Fortinet Security Fabric aids in the detection of zero-day threats and neutralizing advanced new cyberattacks. IT teams can thoroughly analyze and address network and security issues before their organization experiences the consequences.

Fortinet's Security Operations solutions are part of the Security Fabric, its cybersecurity platform. The close integration of these solutions allows organizations to exchange a reactive security approach for a proactive one. This way, they can quickly detect and halt cyber threats. Fortinet's SecOps solutions leverage AI and advanced data analytics and automate incident response tasks within the Fortinet Security Fabric to accelerate the identification and remediation of cyber threats.