Fortinet bought Virtue AI to add runtime protection for agents and MCP tools.

Guardian Agent red-teams autonomous agents across more than 50 sandboxed environments and 14 domains and enforces real-time guardrails over prompts, models, agents, MCP tool calls, and AI infrastructure. Terms undisclosed and called immaterial. Fortinet The release cites Gartner projecting the AI-and-agent security market going from $2.8B in 2026 to $16.4B by 2030. Incumbent security vendors buying agent-security startups is the consolidation phase arriving fast, roughly eighteen months after the category existed.