The FortiGuard IoT Detection Service helps organizations identify and protect connected devices across commercial, industrial, medical, consumer, and cloud-linked environments. It detects devices on the network and compares them with a regularly updated local library. Unknown devices can be queried against FortiGuard Labs intelligence, enabling teams to maintain an accurate IoT inventory despite diverse vendors and distributed deployments. After identification, FortiGate performs deep packet inspection using IoT-specific intrusion prevention signatures to detect exploits and malicious traffic. Because many headless devices cannot be patched, the service provides virtual patching by blocking traffic that matches vulnerabilities until vendor fixes are available. Centralized Security Fabric m

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