Fortinet announced enhancements to its data and productivity security
portfolio, expanding FortiMail with the
launch of the FortiMail Workspace Security suite. These new capabilities
establish FortiMail as the broadest and most customizable email security
platform and extend protection beyond email to include browser and
collaboration security. These advancements, combined with new features in FortiDLP, Fortinet's next-generation data loss
prevention (DLP) and insider risk management solution, deliver a unified,
AI-powered approach to safeguarding users and sensitive data across today's
dynamic work environments.
"In today's evolving threat landscape, securing user productivity
and sensitive data requires a unified strategy that considers both outsider
threats and insider risks," said Nirav Shah, Senior Vice President, Products
and Solutions at Fortinet. "Cybercriminals are aiming their efforts right at
users and increasingly leveraging tools like FraudGPT, BlackmailerV3, and
ElevenLabs to automate the creation of malware, deepfake videos, phishing
websites, and synthetic voices-making attacks more scalable, convincing, and
difficult to detect. With our expanded AI-powered FortiMail Workspace Security
suite and FortiDLP solutions, Fortinet empowers organizations to stay ahead of
threat actors and insider risks while ensuring users, data, and productivity
remain secure."
AI-Powered Defense for Communication, Collaboration, and Data
Security
Today's hybrid workforce relies heavily on SaaS and collaboration
tools, increasing both productivity and the attack surface. As users interact
with sensitive data across these platforms, organizations must address threats
to both users and data in tandem. The 2025 Fortinet Global Threat
Landscape Report highlights the rise of AI-enabled
cybercrime, with attackers using automation to launch more convincing phishing,
impersonation, and account takeover campaigns.
Fortinet's enhanced workspace security solutions meet this
challenge head-on with AI-powered protection across email, browsers, and
collaboration environments, defending against external and internal threats
wherever work happens. This spans the full spectrum of user interactions and
data movement across the digital workspace:
Email security, evolved: With the acquisition and integration of Perception Point-recognized as a
Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Email
Security1-Fortinet has significantly expanded the capabilities of the FortiMail
email security platform, establishing it as the industry's broadest and most
customizable solution. FortiMail can address any email security needs,
including inbound, outbound (including relays), and internal mail protection,
with flexible deployment options across appliances, virtual machines, hosted
services, and SaaS. It offers multiple operating modes-gateway, server, ICES,
and hybrid-and features both a highly configurable UI and a streamlined SaaS
experience.
Extending security to collaboration tools: The FortiMail Workspace Security suite
expands protection beyond email to web browsers and collaboration tools,
enabling organizations to stop sophisticated threats across platforms like
Microsoft 365 and Teams, Google Workspace, and Slack. It blocks evasive
web-based attacks, hidden malware in shared files, and malicious links sent
through chat and collaboration apps. The platform also enhances visibility into
user activity across cloud environments, helping security teams detect and
prevent account takeovers before they escalate. A built-in, 24x7 managed
incident response service supports rapid threat analysis and containment to
reduce operational load on SOC teams.
Smarter defense for critical data: FortiDLP strengthens
this offering by adding advanced capabilities like secure data flow with data
lineage and sequence detection, providing security and insider risk teams with
detailed tracking of sensitive data from its source, capturing how that data is
used and manipulated by users, and automatically correlating user activities to
detect high-risk behavior that warrants further investigation. Whether
monitoring for unauthorized sharing of confidential information through cloud
drives or preventing the exposure of sensitive data to unsanctioned SaaS and
GenAI platforms, FortiDLP delivers the context and control needed to protect
sensitive data, including intellectual property.
Unified Protection for a Hybrid World
With these latest enhancements, Fortinet redefines the way
organizations protect users and data in the modern workspace. By combining the
power of AI with integrated email, browser, collaboration, and data security,
Fortinet delivers the visibility, control, and response speed security teams
need, turning complexity into clarity and threats into just another task
handled.