I attended the upbeat Fortinet Accelerate 2026 in Las Vegas on Tuesday. As part of the show, the company made two key announcements: FortiOS 8.0 and FortiSOC.
Fortinet introduced FortiOS 8.0, which expands the Security Fabric with Secure AI Controls for visibility into shadow AI and AI-aware application controls, Fabric-Based AI Agents for automated troubleshooting, flexible SASE options including SASE Outpost and sovereign deployments, simplified SD-WAN management with multipath IPsec, and quantum-safe cryptography. See the press release here.
Fortinet also previewed FortiSOC as part of its Security Operations platform updates. This cloud-delivered unified SOC integrates FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, FortiSOAR, and FortiTIP into a single console, with expanded agentic AI workflows via FortiAI to reduce tool sprawl and speed up triage and response. See the press release here.
Overall, this week’s announcements reinforce Fortinet’s integrated approach to AI-powered networking and security.