FortLine Security and SonicWall Partner to Bring AI Visibility and Governance to the Network

Milpitas, CA, September 14, 2026 - FortLine Security, a pioneer in AI agent security and governance, and SonicWall, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced a technology partnership bringing AI application visibility and governance to SonicWall’s security portfolio. The integration lets SonicWall firewalls identify the AI applications and AI agents running on a network, assess their risk against an evidence-backed registry, and apply governance policy on what should be allowed, extending the same visibility across SonicWall’s broader security stack as the partnership progresses.

Closing the Shadow AI Gap

Every SonicWall firewall already sees when a device reaches an AI application. What it hasn’t been able to say is which application, what it does with an organization’s data, or whether the agent behind it is behaving the way it did yesterday. That gap, commonly called shadow AI, is where most organizations lose visibility the moment an employee or an autonomous agent starts using a new AI tool.

“Every security team already has a firewall watching the network. What they haven’t had is a way to tell which AI application just showed up on it, what it does with their data, and whether it’s still behaving today the way it did yesterday. That’s the gap AgentShield closes, and doing it through SonicWall means it closes at the point where most organizations already have their strongest visibility.”

- Hilik Stein, CTO, FortLine Security

AI Governance as a Native Property of the Security Stack

The integration works from telemetry SonicWall firewalls already generate, requiring no new agents, sensors, or hardware to identify AI applications on the network. AgentShield’s registry scores each detected application against sourced evidence, and its governance policy engine turns those facts into enforceable rules mapped to major compliance frameworks.

From the moment the policy is applied, security teams have:

• AI application discovery and risk scoring from existing firewall telemetry, no new sensors required
• An evidence-backed registry covering thousands of AI vendors, scored on data handling, jurisdiction, and compliance posture
• A governance policy engine that turns those facts into enforceable rules, mapped to frameworks including HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
• Behavioral monitoring and anomaly detection for AI agents in production, powered by AgentShield’s AutoML engine

“AI is already running on every network we protect. Extending our portfolio with FortLine means we bring visibility, governance against the compliance frameworks our customers already answer to, and behavioral monitoring for their agents, at the same speed and scale we already operate at.”

- Chandrodaya Prasad, CPO & SVP, SonicWall

About FortLine Security

FortLine Security develops AgentShield, an AI agent security and governance platform purpose-built for the agentic AI era. AgentShield provides enterprises with real-time governance of autonomous AI agent behavior through its Glassbox technology - a zero-instrumentation observability layer that captures and classifies every LLM interaction, API call, and data access performed by AI agents in production. For more information, visit www.fortline.ai

About SonicWall

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides seamless protection against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization⁠—⁠enterprise, government agencies and SMBs⁠—⁠around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.