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7AI vs Fortinet

7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop. Fortinet sells cybersecurity and networking technology to enterprises, service providers, and government organizations. CISO Tribune files both under SIEM. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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7AI vs Fortinet: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
7AI7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop.7ai.comFortinetFortinet sells cybersecurity and networking technology to enterprises, service providers, and government organizations.fortinet.com
What it sells
  • 7AI Federated SIEM[5]Connects security sources, including a SIEM and security data lake already in use, and runs detection against them.
  • Investigations[3][4][18]AI agents investigate every alert to a conclusion rather than sampling.
  • Detection[4][5][9]Connects detection sources, maps coverage to attacker techniques, and flags noisy rules.
  • Response[4][5][6][15]Recommends containment actions and runs them against the customer's existing tools.
  • Threat Hunting[5][8]Hunts from a plain-language prompt or from connected threat intelligence feeds.
  • PLAID ELITE[3][4][13][22]Adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock.
  • FortiWeb[18]FortiWeb protects web applications and APIs.
  • FortiAP[17]FortiAP provides secure wireless LAN access points.
  • FortiManager[12][19]FortiManager is a NOC-SOC operations tool.
  • FortiSIEM[12][16]FortiSIEM is Fortinet’s SIEM solution.
  • FortiSandbox[16]FortiSandbox provides AI-powered protection against zero-day threats.
  • Unified SASE[1][11]Fortinet Unified SASE combines networking with AI-aware controls.
  • FortiAIGate[11]FortiAIGate secures AI apps and agents.
Categories
Headquarters
Boston, United States[2][22]Sunnyvale, United States
Founded
2024[2]2000[4]
Ownership and funding
Privately held[6][21]Public (NASDAQ: FTNT)[2][9][12][13][17][20][22]
Named customers
Not stated on its pages
  • IHG Hotels & Resorts[5]
  • Alaska Airlines[6]
  • IndiGo[7]
  • University of Birmingham[8]
Recent news
  • October 29, 20267AI announced that its Technology Alliance Program has reached 200 integrations.[19]
  • October 28, 20267AI announced it was named to Fortune Magazine's 2027 Cyber 60 list of venture-backed cybersecurity startups for the second consecutive year.[20]
  • July 27, 20267AI launched two offerings, Federated SIEM and 7AI Build.[11]
  • July 23, 20267AI launched a global alliance program aimed at partners.[10]
  • June 1, 20267AI launched three capabilities: Threat Hunt, Threat Intel Hunt and Skills.[14]
  • August 17, 2026Fortinet announced it has acquired Virtue AI, a company focused on AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems.[20]
  • August 17, 2026Fortinet acquired Virtue AI, a company offering AI runtime protection and automated validation for autonomous AI systems.[9]
  • July 29, 2026Fortinet reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $2.05 billion, up 26% year over year.[2]
  • June 24, 2026Fortinet appointed Derek Kan to its board of directors.[21]
  • May 6, 2026Fortinet reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.85 billion, up 20% year over year.[10]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 3, 2026[22]
Who it fits
From its own pages, 7AI sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence. 7AI says the platform is shaped to fit a customer's existing tools, workflows, and appetite for risk. Its pages say that enterprises sit at different points in their relationship with the SIEM, and the Federated SIEM service lets a team keep a SIEM, move logs into a security data lake, or run fully federated. Teams can run 7AI directly, have 7AI run security operations for them around the clock, or build their own offering on it. Partners can build services on the 7AI foundation.From its own pages, Fortinet sells mainly to enterprises, service providers, and government organizations. Its firewall pages describe deployments across data centers, branch offices, and multi-cloud environments. Wireless products are described for campuses, remote workers, and large public venues such as stadiums and arenas.
Last verified
September 27, 2026November 9, 2026

Where they overlap

  • 7AI and Fortinet are both filed under SIEM.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • 7AI's primary category is AI SOC analysts; Fortinet's is Firewalls and NGFW.
  • Fortinet is also filed under SASE and SSE and EDR and XDR.
  • 7AI lists 7AI Federated SIEM, Investigations, Detection, Response, Threat Hunting and 1 more. Fortinet lists FortiWeb, FortiAP, FortiManager, FortiSIEM, FortiSandbox and 2 more.
  • 7AI is headquartered in Boston, United States. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States.
  • 7AI was founded in 2024. Fortinet was founded in 2000.
  • 7AI is privately held. Fortinet is a public company listed on NASDAQ as FTNT.
  • Fortinet publicly names IHG Hotels & Resorts, Alaska Airlines, IndiGo and University of Birmingham.

What it sells: 7AI

What 7AI Federated SIEM does[5]
7AI Federated SIEM connects security sources, including the SIEM and security data lake a customer already runs, and runs detection against them wherever they live. On sources 7AI collects, rules evaluate events as they arrive. On sources the customer keeps itself, rules run as scheduled queries against the data in place. Federated Search returns results normalized to OCSF.
What Investigations does[3][4][18]
A 7AI investigation is the end to end work an AI agent swarm performs on a single alert. Each agent step shows the agent's mission, the tools it ran, the exact request and response, and the conclusion it drew. Every investigation includes a copilot grounded in that investigation's own evidence.
What Detection does[4][5][9]
7AI connects every detection source the customer runs, maps coverage to the techniques attackers actually use, finds the rules drowning the team in false positives, and routes each detection to the right outcome. 7AI maps detections to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and scores coverage tactic by tactic.
What Response does[4][5][6][15]
7AI recommends the exact actions to contain a threat, runs them against the tools the customer already owns, and tracks every case from open to closed. The customer approves what executes. Built-in workflows cover actions like isolating a device, revoking sessions, resetting passwords, and quarantining files.
What Threat Hunting does[5][8]
A user describes a technique, behavior, or threat report in plain language, and 7AI builds the plan, investigates the environment, and returns a verdict in minutes. A threat intelligence feed can be connected to launch hunts automatically. 7AI saves each hunt with its plan, its findings, and its verdict.
What PLAID ELITE does[3][4][13][22]
PLAID is the 7AI operating model: People-Led, AI-Driven. PLAID ELITE adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock.

What it sells: Fortinet

What FortiWeb does[18]
FortiWeb protects business-critical web applications and APIs from emerging web-based threats. Its features include anomaly detection, API discovery and protection, bot mitigation, and client-side security. It comes in hardware, virtual machine, and SaaS form factors and is available in public cloud marketplaces.
What FortiAP does[17]
FortiAP integrates with the Fortinet SASE offering to support organizations securing microbranches. FortiAPs are available in models from 2x2 to 4x4, with internal or external antenna. Control can be done with FortiGate, FortiGate VM, FortiSASE, or FortiEdge Cloud.
What FortiManager does[12][19]
FortiManager is the NOC-SOC operations tool that was built with security perspective. It provides a single-pane-of-glass across the entire Fortinet Security Fabric.

Questions about 7AI and Fortinet

What do 7AI and Fortinet sell?
7AI sells 7AI Federated SIEM, Investigations, Detection, Response, Threat Hunting and 1 more. Fortinet sells FortiWeb, FortiAP, FortiManager, FortiSIEM, FortiSandbox and 2 more.
Are 7AI and Fortinet in the same category?
They share SIEM. 7AI's primary category is AI SOC analysts and Fortinet's is Firewalls and NGFW.
Where are 7AI and Fortinet headquartered?
7AI is headquartered in Boston, United States. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States.
When were 7AI and Fortinet founded?
7AI was founded in 2024. Fortinet was founded in 2000.
Who owns 7AI and Fortinet?
7AI is privately held. Fortinet is a public company listed on NASDAQ as FTNT.
Which customers do 7AI and Fortinet name?
Fortinet publicly names IHG Hotels & Resorts, Alaska Airlines, IndiGo and University of Birmingham.
Who are 7AI and Fortinet sold to?
From its own pages, 7AI sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence. 7AI says the platform is shaped to fit a customer's existing tools, workflows, and appetite for risk. From its own pages, Fortinet sells mainly to enterprises, service providers, and government organizations.
What have 7AI and Fortinet announced recently?
October 29, 2026: 7AI announced that its Technology Alliance Program has reached 200 integrations. August 17, 2026: Fortinet announced it has acquired Virtue AI, a company focused on AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems.

About 7AI

7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop. Alerts arrive from across the customer's stack, however many tools the customer runs. 7AI categorizes, groups, triages, and reaches a determination on each one, escalating only what needs a person. 7AI ingests from tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence.[3][4]

7AI investigates every alert to a conclusion rather than sampling. A 7AI investigation is the end to end work an AI agent swarm performs on a single alert. For each agent step, a reader can see the agent's mission, the tools it ran, the exact request and response, and the conclusion it drew. Every investigation includes a copilot grounded in that investigation's own evidence. 7AI can guide an analyst to a pre approved action or take orchestrated response automatically, with humans on the loop.[15]

After an investigation reaches a verdict, 7AI recommends and runs the specific actions needed to contain and remediate the threat. 7AI recommends the exact actions to contain a threat, runs them against the tools the customer already owns, and tracks every case from open to closed. The customer approves what executes. Response actions run through the tools the customer already owns across endpoint, identity, email, and cloud. Built-in workflows cover common actions like isolating a device, revoking sessions, resetting passwords, and quarantining files, and custom workflows extend to anything the team needs. Teams can compose response in a visual designer with no code required. 7AI builds response automation into the platform and connects to the tools the customer owns rather than replacing them.

7AI Federated SIEM connects security sources, including the SIEM and security data lake a customer already runs, and runs detection against them wherever they live. A customer can keep its SIEM and connect it as a source, move high-volume logs into a security data lake, or run fully federated. On sources 7AI collects, rules evaluate events as they arrive. On sources the customer keeps itself, rules run as scheduled queries against the data in place. Federated Search queries connected log sources and returns results normalized to OCSF. 7AI Federated SIEM is generally available. Federated SIEM is the data foundation on which the rest of the platform runs, feeding detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting.[5]

7AI connects every detection source the customer runs, maps coverage to the techniques attackers actually use, finds the rules drowning the team in false positives, and routes each detection to the right outcome. 7AI maps detections to the MITRE ATT&CK techniques attackers use and scores coverage tactic by tactic. 7AI connects to detection sources already run across identity, endpoint, cloud, email, and SIEM. 7AI watches how every rule performs and flags the ones generating false positives at scale. For threat hunting, a user describes a technique, behavior, or threat report in plain language, and 7AI builds the plan, investigates the environment, and returns a verdict in minutes. A threat intelligence feed can be connected to launch hunts automatically. 7AI saves each hunt with its plan, its findings, and its verdict so it can be re-run or shared.[1][4][8][9]

7AI continuously sweeps the customer's environment, scores posture against the frameworks the customer reports on, and ranks exactly what to fix next. 7AI scores posture with coverage mapped to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 by control family. Skills let a customer's team define exactly how 7AI investigates, hunts, and responds, and a skill is written in plain language as a simple document. Enterprise Insights is the institutional knowledge 7AI draws on during every investigation, such as which domains are sanctioned and how the environment is wired. Skills shape how 7AI investigates, Workflows automate the actions it takes, and Insights give 7AI the context it needs about the environment.[7][16][17]

7AI describes several ways to engage. The customer's team can run 7AI directly, with dedicated AI Security Engineers who configure the agents to the environment. 7AI can run the customer's security operations around the clock as fully managed security operations. PLAID is the 7AI operating model: People-Led, AI-Driven, and PLAID ELITE adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock. With 7AI Build, customers and partners construct new harnesses, workflows, and entire services on the 7AI foundation.[3][18]

7AI says it builds a living model of each environment's context, and that dedicated AI Security Engineers seed that model at deployment while 9M+ investigations run since February 2025 compound it. 7AI also says that customers set the guardrails, define what agents act on versus escalate, and lead strategy. 7AI says a year in production at Fortune 500 scale has meant millions of investigations run and more than a million analyst hours handed back to security teams.[3][4][7][18]

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Fortinet full record

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