Secure Your Web Applications and Simplify Operations with AI

The day-to-day life of a web application security analyst isn't easy. Even the most experienced technically savvy pros have to keep up with increasingly sophisticated attack techniques such as zero-day exploits, sophisticated bots, injections, and remote scripting. Coupled with that is a never-ending barrage of alerts from countless monitoring tools, increasing the likelihood of missing true threats. With perennial understaffing, it's a recipe for loss of control and an increased risk.

This situation isn't likely to get better soon. But Fortinet has now integrated its virtual AI assistant, FortiAI-Assist, into its web application security solutions to help security teams defend their organizations against advanced threats effectively. FortiAI-Assist capability is now included in the appliance, physical or virtual versions of the FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF), and FortiAppSec Cloud, a unified web application and API Protection (WAAP) service that secures web applications and APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The solutions also now include integrated client-side protection to monitor scripts on payment pages as required by PCI DSS 4.0. These advancements address a common blind spot, simplify operations, and ensure compliance with the latest payment standards, protecting web applications from the server to the browser without adding complexity. These enhancements help analysts work more quickly to secure the user experience and data while meeting regulatory requirements.

Why Having AI Assistance Matters

Having an AI assistant like FortiAI-Assist doesn't replace web application security experts, but it can dramatically magnify their efforts. Pairing an embedded assistant with the unified web application, API, and client-side protection in FortiAppSec Cloud delivers faster answers, better decisions, focused action, and lower total cost. An AI-powered assistant can automate threat analysis, accelerate incident response, and provide actionable intelligence. Using FortiAI-Assist, analysts benefit from:

• Faster detection and response: Speeds triage by summarizing events, proposing next steps, and generating ready-to-run investigations
• More informed decision-making: Enhances and offers context to a WAF/API alert by providing the service's criticality, scope, potential user impact, compliance, and whether the traffic targets checkout pages or high-value APIs
• Better prioritization of incidents: Ranks incidents by exploitability, customer impact, and blast radius across web and API surfaces
• Task automation and customization: Performs tasks such as generating playbooks, summarizing logs, correlating API anomalies, setting up repeatable actions, and explaining detections in clear language, so experts can focus on design and threat hunting
• Remediation guidance and explanations: Addresses the skills gap by helping junior team members learn more quickly, freeing senior security engineers to focus on strategic initiatives, such as threat hunting and architectural enhancements
• Cost savings: Simplifies workflows and operations by cutting dwell time and response hours using guided investigations

To address sophisticated threats to web applications, FortiAppSec Cloud delivers a comprehensive web application and API protection by combining web application firewall, API security, and bot protection, and providing visibility, analytics, and governance to simplify operations and save costs.

Independent Testing Confirms Fortinet as a Cloud WAAP Leader

Recently, Fortinet was named a validated Leader in the 2025 SecureIQLab Cloud WAAP report, achieving top operational efficiency (96.2%) and strong security efficacy (92.4%). Unlike survey-based reports, SecureIQLab independently tested Fortinet in real-world attack scenarios, confirming superior protection against advanced threats with minimal false positives.

Fortinet WAAP solutions are built for hybrid and cloud-native environments and deliver visibility, scalability, and resilience. This recognition from SecureQLab highlights Fortinet's ability to balance strong application and API security with simplicity and efficiency.

SecureIQLab conducted a comprehensive evaluation of 11 enterprise-class WAAP solutions to assess their security efficacy and operational efficiency. Fortinet stood out with significantly higher scores than the group average across both dimensions.

Security efficacy was determined by subjecting the tested products to over 1,360 sophisticated and varied attacks, grounded in well-known frameworks such as OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, and the Lockheed Martin Kill Chain.

Operational efficiency was validated across 10 critical categories, including deployment and ease of management, logging and analytics, support and documentation, integration, scalability, certificate handling, geolocation-based security, and risk management. All testing adhered to rigorous standards as outlined by the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization. (The full testing methodology is available on the SecureIQLab website.)

Simplify Web Security with Fortinet

Web application security analysts are busy people. Instead of juggling separate tools for everything from bot defense to API protection, they can take advantage of Fortinet web security solutions like FortiAppSec Cloud for a complete, consolidated cloud-delivered option. Its native PCI DSS 4.0 client-side protection makes it easier to migrate and run payment applications without extra integrations. And now with the addition of FortiAI-Assist, analysts benefit from reduced complexity and guidance for investigations and remediation, cutting learning curves, improving prioritization, and reducing the time to mitigation. FortiAppSec Cloud is also available in public cloud marketplaces, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, streamlining billing and deployment.

Learn how FortiAppSec Cloud can help you secure your web applications and APIs while eliminating inconsistencies in security management and enforcement across environments.