Fortinet has upgraded its FortiRecon platform with capabilities aligned to the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework, aimed at helping organizations anticipate and mitigate cyber threats more effectively. The enhanced features bring together attack surface management, threat intelligence, and security orchestration, enabling security teams to identify exposures sooner and reduce risk faster through a more proactive approach.
These enhancements help organizations proactively identify and prioritize real-world exposures, validate risks like an attacker would, and accelerate response, ultimately reducing the likelihood and impact of breaches.
“CISOs and security teams are overwhelmed by growing attack surfaces and an endless stream of unprioritized alerts,” said Nirav Shah, senior vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet. “With the latest enhancements to FortiRecon, we’re giving organizations an attacker’s eye view of their internal and external exposures, backed by AI-powered threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs, real-world validation, and automated response. This allows organizations to cut through the noise, focus on what matters most, and measurably reduce risks and vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.”
The announcement comes amid growing demand for exposure-driven security strategies as organizations struggle to manage expanding attack surfaces, alert fatigue, and fragmented security operations.
According to Gartner, “By 2026, organizations prioritizing their security investments based on a continuous exposure management program will be three times less likely to suffer from a breach.”
FortiRecon, in combination with its integration to the Fortinet AI-Driven Security Operations Center (SOC) platform, now delivers capabilities across the five pillars of the Gartner CTEM framework, scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, and mobilization, enabling organizations to operationalize these pillars within a single, tightly integrated platform and drive coordinated remediation efforts across security and IT teams.
The latest FortiRecon enhancements expand its ability to monitor and manage an organization’s attack surface by continuously delivering an adversary’s view of both internal and external digital assets.
The update adds National Vulnerability Database (NVD) severity ratings alongside FortiRecon Active Exploitation severity ratings, enabling faster and more informed patching decisions. Its adversary-centric intelligence provides actionable insights from dark web activity, ransomware intelligence, leaked credentials, vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild, and at-risk vendors, with new capabilities for bulk indicator of compromise (IOC) downloads and stealer infection details to accelerate SOC workflows and improve breach detection.
FortiRecon’s brand protection capabilities detect and take down domain impersonations, rogue mobile apps, phishing campaigns, and executive targeting, using proprietary algorithms to identify fake phishing domains, brand and executive impersonations, malicious applications in multiple app stores, data leaks in code repositories, open bucket exposures, and other threats to an organization’s reputation. Security orchestration features leverage automated playbooks to investigate and respond to threat findings, reducing response times by prioritizing incidents and streamlining security workflows.
Existing FortiFlex customers may use their FortiFlex credits to deploy FortiRecon Cloud. FortiFlex offers usage-based licensing with the security industry’s broadest catalog for customers with dynamic hybrid and multi-cloud environments and MSSPs. When purchased through major cloud marketplaces, FortiFlex can also help customers meet cloud committed spend obligations.
“FortiRecon has elevated the way we deliver managed security services. It enables our teams to provide clients with continuous, contextualized risk insights not just alerts,” Paul Cragg, CTO at Norm Cyber, said. “We’re now able to prioritize remediation based on business impact, helping our customers reduce risk faster while demonstrating measurable security outcomes. It’s a key differentiator in how we build long-term trust and value.”
