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Colt Technology Services, the global digital infrastructure company, announces the expansion of its secure networking portfolio with new Fortinet-based quantum-ready SD WAN and SASE solutions. By combining Colt's high-performance global network and managed services expertise with Fortinet's world-class security solutions, enterprises can now connect users, sites and applications more securely, simplify network management and strengthen protection against emerging cyber and quantum threats. The solution provides consistent security policies, secure access and flexible deployment options, all designed to support future business needs. Major sources of complexity As cyber threats grow, quantum risk emerges and IT environments become more complex, businesses need security that is robust and powerful without adding complexity. Colt’s recent Cost of Complexity research found that security and compliance are major sources of complexity for more than one in three (36%) organizations, while 53% say their security and compliance teams are frustrated by infrastructure complexity. Peter Coppens, VP Product, Colt Technology Services said, “Colt's new Fortinet-powered SD WAN and SASE solutions help customers simplify how they connect and protect employees, applications and data, bringing networking and security together in a single managed service. The result is stronger protection, simpler operations and a future-ready foundation that helps organizations stay ahead of emerging threats while defending against the risks they face today.” Future quantum computing advances Ramnath Shenai, Director of Products and Solutions, Fortinet says, “Customers need secure access that works consistently across branches, remote users and cloud applications, without adding operational complexity. Colt brings the reach of its global network and its managed services expertise; Fortinet brings secure SD WAN and unified SASE. Together, we can help organizations connect and protect their people and applications through a service designed to be managed as a whole.” Demand for converged networking and security services continues to accelerate. Dell'Oro Group forecasts the global SASE market will grow at a 15% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), reaching US$24 billion by 2030 as organizations seek simpler, more secure ways to connect people, applications and data. Colt's latest Fortinet-powered solutions strengthen its SD WAN and security portfolio, combining the reach and reliability of its owned global network with flexible management models and support for both single-vendor and multi-vendor environments. The solution is designed to support emerging post-quantum cryptographic capabilities, helping organizations address the risk that sensitive data intercepted today could be vulnerable to future quantum computing advances.

Atos, a pioneer of AI-powered digital transformation, announces that it is expanding its longstanding partnership with Fortinet, a global cybersecurity pioneer, from a country-led to a global engagement model. The agreement will help organizations strengthen security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments worldwide through a unified framework including reselling and managed cybersecurity services. It will also align joint business development, customer engagement, service delivery and competitive commercial terms globally to address organizations’ growing cybersecurity challenges. Clients contend with escalating cyber threats and ransomware attacks, increasingly complex digital environments, expanding digital transformation programs, stricter regulatory requirements and a persistent shortage of cybersecurity skills. The strengthened Atos Fortinet partnership will combine advanced security technologies with managed security capabilities on a global scale. Consistent services worldwide Through integrated solutions and consistent services worldwide, the partnership will enable organizations to enhance protection and visibility across cloud and on-premises environments, simplify security operations, accelerate threat detection and remediation, and gain the scalability and flexibility required to pursue their digital transformation securely. Fortinet’s advanced cybersecurity technologies and engagement support across geographies and Atos’ extensive expertise in managed security services, consulting and integration, as well as its global delivery capabilities and network of Security Operations Centers, will provide organizations with more innovative and scalable services to strengthen cyber resilience and support secure digital transformation, with a direct impact on operational efficiency. Over the years, Atos and Fortinet joint offering embraced customers’ ongoing challenges, allowing them to benefit from Atos’ cybersecurity services embedding Fortinet’s latest technologies. Spanning network security Günter Koinegg, global head of cybersecurity services, Atos, said: “Our expanded partnership with Fortinet aligns with our strategy to harness leading technology ecosystems to deliver integrated, outcome-driven solutions for our clients. By combining Fortinet’s advanced cybersecurity technologies with Atos’ consulting, integration and managed security expertise, we can provide consistent and scalable protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments and help clients address the security challenges in the AI era.” Thomas Desrues, SVP channel sales international, Fortinet, said: “Elevating our long-standing partnership from a country-led model to a globally coordinated alliance builds on the strong complementarity between Atos’ expertise in digital transformation, systems integration, and managed security, and Fortinet’s leadership in cybersecurity innovation focusing on Secure Networking, Unified SASE and AI-Driven Security Operations. Through a unique combination of global scale, shared innovation, and local expertise, we provide the AI-Native Security Fabric organizations need to strengthen cyber resilience and navigate the growing demands for sovereignty, high performance, and security in AI environments.” This strengthened framework complements Atos’ existing offerings spanning network security, SOC services, Zero Trust, cloud security and SASE architecture (Secure Access Service Edge), as well as cyber resilience.

Fortinet®, the global cybersecurity pioneer driving the convergence of networking and security, announces it has acquired Virtue AI, an innovator in AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems. The acquisition advances the company’s broader Security for AI strategy and vision for securing the agentic enterprise, building on Fortinet's existing AI security solution portfolio, including its FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall. As organizations rapidly deploy AI applications and autonomous agents, their attack surface expands beyond traditional networks, users, endpoints, applications, and cloud workloads. It now includes prompts, models, agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, application programming interface (API) calls, and AI infrastructure. Organizations need to adopt AI with confidence, keep it secure in production, and trust it behaves as intended. Preventing harmful content Fortinet met that need earlier this year with FortiAIGate, which safeguards large language models (LLMs) from prompt injections, data leakage, model poisoning, excessive resource consumption, and other emerging AI-specific risks. Virtue AI extends that security to AI models, applications, and agentic systems, from development through runtime, leveraging Virtue AI’s Guardian Agent abilities and key product capabilities, including: Agentic system red-teaming: Tests autonomous agents for exploitable weaknesses across more than 50 sandboxed environments and 14 high-stakes domains, including simulated prompt-injection and MCP-based attacks against agent frameworks. Agent protection, governance, and visibility: Provides full visibility into agents and AI tools running in their environment, discovers unsanctioned AI applications and agents, scans MCP tools and source code for hidden risks, monitors agent behavior, and blocks malicious tool calls before they act. Continuous AI validation: Identifies new risks across every model update and fine-tuning of policies, while generating audit-ready evidence to support security and compliance reviews. The automated red-teaming runs across hundreds of attack vectors and more than 1,000 risk categories, with multimodal testing and on-demand reporting for security, risk, and compliance teams. Real-time guardrails:  Enforces customisable policies across text, images, video, audio, and AI-generated code to prevent harmful content, sensitive data, jailbreaks, and vulnerable code from reaching users or downstream systems. Anticipated market expansion “AI is fundamentally changing enterprise computing, and security must evolve just as quickly,” said Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer at Fortinet. “Virtue AI’s technology will advance our vision for continuous AI assurance, helping customers govern and protect AI systems throughout their lifecycle while operating them confidently at enterprise scale.” According to Gartner®, “the market for securing AI ecosystems and AI agents is rapidly expanding; products and tools are expected to expand from $2.8 billion in 2026 to $16.4 billion by 2030.”[1] Fortinet believes that anticipated market expansion reflects evolving industry demand to secure the AI era. Real-time protection Customers already rely on the Fortinet AI-native Security Fabric for integrated protection across networks, endpoints, clouds, applications, and AI deployments. This acquisition complements FortiAIGate and further strengthens Fortinet’s AI runtime security capabilities with Virtue AI’s automated validation and real-time protection. Combined with coordinated enforcement and FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence, it will give organizations the confidence to secure AI systems throughout their lifecycle. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed, and the amount paid by Fortinet as consideration is immaterial to Fortinet’s business.