As part of this announcement, Fortinet introduced the FortiGate 3800G

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the scale of compute power required has grown exponentially—along with the attack surface. Fortinet’s Secure AI Data Center Solution addresses this by converging AI-driven protection, quantum-safe encryption, and ASIC acceleration to secure high-density AI workloads without sacrificing efficiency.

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced the Secure AI Data Center solution, the industry’s first end-to-end framework purpose-built to protect AI infrastructures. Designed to secure the full AI stack—from data center infrastructure to applications and large language models (LLMs)—the solution delivers advanced AI threat defense with ultra-low latency and reduces power consumption on average by 69% compared to traditional approaches.

As part of this announcement, Fortinet introduced the FortiGate 3800G, a high-performance data center firewall that delivers the power efficiency, throughput, and scalability required for AI workloads. Powered by NP7 and SP5 ASICs and 400 GbE connectivity, the 3800G is the latest addition to the Fortinet data center firewall portfolio to deliver the hyperscale throughput, energy efficiency, and real-time GPU-cluster protection as part of the Secure AI Data Center framework.

“AI data centers demand both massive performance and deep protection,” said Nirav Shah, Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions at Fortinet. “Our Secure AI Data Center solution unifies those capabilities, combining ASIC-powered firewalls like the FortiGate 3800G with advanced protection for data, applications and LLMs so organizations can scale AI without compromising security, performance, or efficiency.”

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“AI data centers require both unmatched performance and deep, intelligent protection,” said Nirav Shah, Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions at Fortinet. “With our Secure AI Data Center solution, we’ve brought these capabilities together—delivering ASIC-accelerated firewalls like the FortiGate 3800G alongside advanced defenses for data, applications, and models. This allows organizations to scale AI initiatives securely, without compromising efficiency or performance.”

A Unified Approach to AI Security and Performance

The Fortinet Secure AI Data Center solution provides complete protection across the AI lifecycle—from network segmentation and encrypted traffic inspection to defense at the model and application layers. By embedding security within each component of the AI infrastructure, the framework enables organizations to prevent data exfiltration, neutralize malicious inputs, and comply with evolving AI regulations—all while preserving the speed and power efficiency required for GPU-intensive environments.

Nirav Shah, senior vice president for products and solutions at Fortinet, said, “AI data centers require large-scale computing performance and advanced security at the same time,” and added, “Fortinet’s Secure AI Data Center solution integrates protection across data, applications, and LLMs around ASIC-based firewalls such as FortiGate 3800G.”

By - Aaradhay Sharma