There’s a better-than-ever chance that current leaps in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are weirding you out at least a little, and that’s okay. We’d have to worry about you if you didn’t pause to take in chatbots trying to break up marriages and deepfakes fooling panicked parents into coughing up ransoms in fake kidnapping scams.
As an MSSP, this latter example, deepfake use in crime, probably strikes closer to home than you’d like. AI and cybercrime are a match made in hell, and they’re marching straight for us on a road paved with bad intentions.
Fighting Fire With Fire
As we’ve discussed before, the bad guys are already using AI. Your clients need AI of their own. And it can’t be some half-baked, barely qualified piecemeal solution that’s been washed in AI terminology and branding. It needs to protect your clients’ entire infrastructure at scale. And since malware definitions are only as good as the latest discovery, the AI-powered threat intelligence your clients rely on must be able to infer threats from anomalous data. Otherwise, they’re sitting ducks for emerging and unknown threats. We’ve got at deeper rundown on AI-powered security here.
An AI-Powered, Self-Defending Ecosystem?
The good news on the AI front is that the good guys are making breakthroughs of their own. In May, Fortinet released FortiOS 7.4, a new version of the operating system that powers Fortinet’s fabric. Among a laundry list of features and other improvements is the release of new real-time response and automation capabilities that empower organizations to build a self-defending ecosystem. These new powers, which stretch across the entire security fabric, are embedded in the AI-powered global threat intelligence, empowering protection against the toughest of cyberthreats, including:
- Weaponized AI attacks
- Targeted ransomware
- Advanced persistent threats (APTs)
Secure networking solutions enhanced with FortiOS 7.5 improvements include:
- Unified Management and Analytics Across Hybrid Networks
- Hybrid Mesh Firewall for Data Center and Cloud
- Secure SD-WAN for Branch Offices
- Single-Vendor SAS for Remote Users and Branch Offices
- Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) for Remote Users and Campus Locations
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WLAN/LAN for Branch Offices and Campus Locations
Learn More
To learn more about FortiOS 7.4, visit Fortinet’s product brief page. It’s a good overview with video resources as well as links to demos and trial offers.