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Fortinet ON AIR S1EP5 - Navigating AI, Misinformation & Cyber Resilience with Orange Cyberdefense

·22 min

Recorded live at MWC 2025, the episode opens on the busy pace of the event and the broader digital landscape it reflects. The guest treats that backdrop as an illustration of innovation, technological disruption, new business cases, and growing complexity. The conversation then turns to AI systems, starting with a basic point that matters in practice. Data quality comes first, because the system depends on trustworthy data. That concern leads naturally to exclusive data and partner-provided data, such as Fortinet inputs, which are treated as trustworthy sources. The episode is especially clear on why validation matters, since unverified samples can poison your own data sources. From there, the discussion shifts to training. People need to learn how to use new tools efficiently, but also securely when working with LLMs. Automation becomes the next major theme. It is presented not as a novelty, but as something already familiar in managed services and cybersecurity that AI can help advance. The guest argues that real-time detection and real-time remediation are becoming more plausible because of these tools. That future matters because patching remains hard. Vulnerabilities appear quickly, and organizations struggle to patch and prioritize remediation. Automation is framed as one answer to that problem, especially when security teams need a broader posture that can act before the window closes. A Fortinet example reinforces the point. The team has handled a tremendous amount of data and has been training AI systems since 2014 with supervised learning, showing how much AI depends on careful curation. The discussion also reaches back to the earlier hype around AI, when people talked about it but often could not really grasp it. Generative AI changed that by making the interface immediate: anyone can open a browser, type a prompt, and see it work. Even so, the episode keeps returning to a sober message: the promise of these systems only holds if the data behind them is sensitive, high-quality, and treated with care. That is where the episode closes, on traditional security measures adapted for new systems and a pragmatic view of how the field moves forward.

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A grounded look at trusted data, supervised automation, and the practical realities of AI in cybersecurity.

Fortinet OnAir treats AI as a practical test of trust: how data gets validated, how teams stay trained, and how automation can speed security work without pushing oversight aside.

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