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Fortinet expansion suggests Calgary's cache is growing among global companies. The $30-million cybersecurity hub adds another international company to the city's growing tech ecosystem. US cybersecurity firm Fortinet opened up shop in downtown Calgary last week, reflecting the city's growing place in the global tech sector. The news: Fortinet, which develops and sells cybersecurity products as well as carrying out cybersecurity research, unveiled the hub on Sept. 16. The eight-storey, $30-million investment features a cybersecurity community hub, a customer experience centre, a training facility, and a Fortinet Cloud point of presence that the company says will bring Fortinet's cloud security network closer to Alberta organizations. From the source: "Alberta's core industries are undergoing massive digital modernization right now, connecting physical operations to the cloud," Gordon Phillips, Fortinet's regional vice-president for Western Canada, told BetaKit in an emailed statement. "Our presence in Calgary will allow us to collaborate much more closely with partners and customers across the province." The context: The company's Calgary hub joins Burnaby, BC, and Ottawa as homes for Fortinet's Canadian operations. Fortinet said Calgary's research operations will focus on both AI-driven cybersecurity threats and risks to operational technology (OT). OT is hardware and software used to monitor or control physical, industrial equipment or infrastructure. Security around OT is particularly important in Alberta, where much of the province's cornerstone industries, like oil and gas, are integrating physical and digital operations. Final thought: Fortinet's decision to lay down roots in Calgary underpins the city's continued momentum within the Canadian and broader tech sector. This past summer, Calgary emerged as the fastest growing ecosystem in the country, having added more than 900 tech companies to its roster in just five years. That crowning achievement came on the heels of a deliberate effort by the city - home to some of Canada's biggest FinTech, healthtech, and aerospace startups - to diversify itself away from a strictly oil and gas economy toward and position itself as an innovation capital. While Fortinet is framing expansion as an affirmation of its commitment to the Canadian market, its decision to do so in Calgary is reflective of a maturing ecosystem that has become top of mind for many US and international companies. BetaKit's Prairies reporting is funded in part by YEGAF, a not-for-profit dedicated to amplifying business stories in Alberta. Feature image courtesy Fortinet.

Sovereign AI meets quantum-ready defense with FortiNDR. New FortiNDR Capabilities Strengthen Quantum Readiness, Automate Deception, and Bring AI On-Premises Today's detection and response tools face a tough challenge: Attackers are moving faster, hiding in plain sight longer, and increasingly using AI to amplify their efforts. Fortinet's NDR portfolio is designed to meet these challenges with two complementary offerings: FortiNDR Cloud, a cloud-native SaaS platform with 365 days of data retention, and FortiNDR, purpose-built for air-gapped and on-premises-only environments. The latest releases on both platforms deliver three standout capabilities. FortiNDR Cloud introduces new dynamic deception capabilities as part of the Fortinet Automation Service (FAS), which turns decoys into active response triggers. Its new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) dashboard helps teams prepare for quantum-era threats. And FortiNDR also introduces FortiAI Sovereign, bringing fully on-premises, unrestricted AI-powered investigation to air-gapped environments. Here's what's new. Get ahead of quantum risk with the new PQC dashboard. Quantum threats are not a someday problem. Harvest-now, decrypt-later (HNDL) attacks mean the exposure clock is already running. FortiNDR Cloud puts that risk front and center with a dedicated PQC dashboard. Customers get a continuously updated, evidence-based picture of their cryptographic posture from traffic they already monitor, with no new agents, scanning, or decryption required. The dashboard helps teams identify sessions still relying on classical key exchange, prioritize remediation where HNDL exposure is real, track hybrid adoption as migration progresses, and provide concrete evidence when regulators or the board ask where things stand. Because the same view surfaces weak ciphers and outdated TLS versions, it improves today's encryption hygiene and helps organizations prepare for tomorrow's threats. The PQC dashboard is powered by new SSL event data that captures cryptographic versions in network traffic. This gives teams concrete, network-derived visibility into where quantum-vulnerable encryption remains in use, turning a looming compliance requirement into something they can see and act on today. Dynamic deception brings agentic defense to life. Deception technology only earns its keep when it does more than just sit and wait. With advanced dynamic deception capabilities built on a native FortiDeceptor integration, every interaction with a decoy is automatically annotated and surfaced in FortiNDR Cloud, where analysts already investigate and hunt threats. Teams gain immediate visibility into attacker activity involving decoys, without a separate console or swivel-chair investigation. FortiNDR dynamic deception does not stop at visibility. Paired with the new FAS, FortiNDR Cloud can automatically deploy additional decoys to misdirect attackers, gather more evidence, and strengthen detection across targeted networks. An AI investigator that works the case for you. FortiNDR Cloud AI capabilities take a major step forward in this release cycle with the new AI investigation agent. This agentic AI autonomously conducts multistep investigations of detections and delivers findings and recommendations in the analyst's preferred language. It is accompanied by a wave of FortiAI upgrades, including persistent, resumable chat history; exportable results; support for custom detectors; and a one-click "Investigate with FortiAI" button on every detection. More reasons to love this release. * Attack maps (beta): Visualize related traffic from an impacted device to spot lateral movement before it spreads * Natural language query library: Use or customize ready-made example queries without needing query-language expertise * New telemetry for the AI era: Detect generative AI usage through deep packet inspection and use new DNS fields designed to identify exfiltration * Built-in documentation search: Global search now indexes the FortiNDR Cloud Portal Guide, keeping help no more than a search away Sovereign AI, now on the appliance. The latest FortiNDR release also features FortiAI Sovereign, an enterprise-grade, AI-powered investigation tool that runs entirely within an organization's environment. Unlike cloud-dependent AI assistants, FortiAI Sovereign runs natively on the FortiNDR center appliance without relying on Fortinet's cloud AI proxy. For FortiNDR customers, this means no token limits, no top-ups, and no data leaving the network. For organizations in government, defense, banking, and operational technology where the cloud is not an option, FortiAI Sovereign delivers the same AI-accelerated investigation capabilities without compromising sovereignty. Additional capabilities in the latest FortiNDR release help SOC analysts triage, investigate, and resolve events. Machine learning-based observation profiles detect behavioral anomalies, such as DCSync, vertical port scans, and diameter traffic anomalies in telecommunications networks. Whether it's dynamic deception actively misdirecting attackers as they explore the network, a PQC dashboard putting quantum risk on the radar today, or FortiAI Sovereign enabling unrestricted AI investigation behind the air gap, FortiNDR and FortiNDR Cloud share a single mission: to give security teams the fastest path from detection to resolution, wherever their data must live. To learn more about how FortiNDR and FortiNDR Cloud help security teams detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats, explore these additional resources: News & articles. Security research. Connect with Fortinet Inc..

Fortinet introduces FortiManagement Cloud: centralized management for network and security. oplus_1048576 Fortinet introduces FortiManagement Cloud, a cloud-based platform that brings network management and analytics together in a single dashboard. Fortinet launches FortiManagement Cloud, bringing network management and security together in one centralized environment. The company primarily targets SMEs that want to maintain an overview of the number of users, devices, and locations. IT teams are faced with limited resources and must simultaneously ensure the security of their infrastructure. The use of different management platforms increases the likelihood of inefficiencies and human error. Research shows that employees lose an average of 51 minutes per week to tool fatigue, caused by constantly switching between management systems. FortiManagement Cloud. The solution combines the management of FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, and FortiExtender into an integrated dashboard. Organizations benefit from lower management costs and reduced complexity. FortiManagement Cloud supports faster deployment of new locations thanks to zero-touch provisioning, reusable templates, and configuration copying. Centralized management makes it easier to apply a consistent security policy. Furthermore, the platform offers reporting, analytics, and event management. This provides more insight into network performance and helps detect and handle incidents faster. The automation of SD-WAN overlay networks further contributes to simplifying the infrastructure. Multitenant and zero-touch provisioning. FortiManagement Cloud is designed for both individual organizations and managed service providers. MSPs can manage multiple customer environments via the multitenant architecture without data or settings becoming mixed. Roles and permissions are customizable per user or environment, and reports can be adapted to the MSP's branding. With zero-touch provisioning, the rollout of network equipment is simplified. Devices are pre-registered and automatically provided with the correct configuration as soon as they are added to the management environment. This makes it possible to efficiently roll out multiple locations simultaneously and ensure standardization.