F5, the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, today announced a technology integration with MuleSoft, a Salesforce company, bringing F5 AI Guardrails directly into Agent Fabric. Announced from Seattle, the joint integration featuring F5 AI Security Platform and Agent Fabric embeds AI runtime security directly into agentic AI workflows, blocking threats like prompt injection and sensitive data exposure as enterprises rapidly scale AI agents and large language model applications.
As organizations scale agentic AI capabilities, security teams face a growing governance gap and frequently lack visibility into agentic traffic, risking exposure from prompt injection, harmful outputs, and sensitive data leakage. Until now, organizations deploying Agent Fabric and seeking to leverage F5 AI Guardrails have faced a trade-off: either route LLM traffic through a separate F5 inspection layer, creating additional operational complexity and fragmented telemetry, or rely solely on native gateway controls without extending F5 AI Guardrails policies directly into MuleSoft-managed workflows.
By federating F5 AI Guardrails into Agent Fabric, enterprises gain unified governance and zero double-proxy overhead with policy management for AI traffic living in a single control plane. Agent Fabric's Omni Gateway routes LLM calls directly to the F5 AI Guardrails Scan API, inspecting inbound prompts and outbound completions inline before models are invoked or responses returned. The solution offers flexible dual-deployment topology allowing self-hosted Kubernetes deployments including private VPCs, allowing sensitive prompt and completion data to remain within customer boundaries.
The integration delivers proactive threat mitigation designed to block prompt injection, jailbreaks, toxicity, and unauthorized topics while reducing personally identifiable information and protected data exposure at runtime. Security teams author and version scanners, blocklists, and sensitivity thresholds within the F5 console, which Omni Gateway picks up dynamically without requiring policy or code changes. Decisions carry detailed telemetry and shared scan IDs for seamless correlation in the F5 console, simplifying compliance with regulations such as the EU AI Act, GDPR, and HIPAA.
“AI agents are moving from experiments into the critical path of the enterprise,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “The biggest risk in agentic AI is that agents will move faster than enterprise security and governance models can keep up. By integrating the F5 AI Security Platform directly into Agent Fabric, we are putting protection in the path of every prompt and response, where it can operate in real time. That lets organizations move faster with AI while preserving the control, visibility, and accountability their most important business processes demand.”
“We built Agent Fabric as the neutral solution to support enterprises running agents across a mix of models and platforms,” said Andrew Comstock, SVP & GM at MuleSoft. “By extending Agent Fabric’s existing LLM API and AI services to support F5 AI Guardrails as a first-class provider, we’re making it even easier for customers to scale their agentic enterprise on the security tooling they know and trust.”
About F5
F5, Inc. is the global leader that delivers and secures every app. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s premier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to deliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed to innovating and partnering with the world’s largest and most advanced organizations to deliver fast, available, and secure digital experiences. Together, we help each other thrive and bring a better digital world to life.
