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F5 has announced the general availability of F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, two advanced solutions that secure mission-critical enterprise AI systems. These releases position F5 as the only vendor offering a comprehensive end-to-end lifecycle approach to AI runtime security, with enhanced protection for AI agents through both pre-built and customizable guardrails.
Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI for customer experiences, internal workflows, and mission-critical decision-making, but this acceleration introduces new threats: adversarial model manipulation, data exfiltration, unpredictable outputs, and expanding compliance requirements such as GDPR and the EU AI Act. Traditional security tools often address only isolated parts of the AI attack surface, leaving gaps in protection for dynamic, model-driven interactions.
F5 AI Guardrails serves as a flexible runtime security layer that protects any AI model, application, or agent regardless of deployment environment. It defends against key threats such as prompt injection and jailbreak attacks, prevents leakage of sensitive data, and enforces organizational and regulatory policies in real time. Unique observability features allow teams to understand not only model outputs but the reasoning behind them, supporting governance and compliance needs in highly regulated industries.
“Traditional enterprise governance cannot keep up with the velocity of AI,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “When policy lags adoption, you get data leaks and unpredictable model behavior. Organizations need defenses that are as dynamic as the models themselves. F5 AI Guardrails secures the traffic in real time, turning a black box into a transparent system, while F5 AI Red Team proactively finds vulnerabilities before they reach production. This allows organizations to stop fearing risk and start shipping apps and features with confidence.”
F5 AI Red Team complements runtime protection with scalable, automated red teaming that simulates a wide range of threat vectors, from common exploits to emerging techniques. Powered by an industry-leading vulnerability database that adds thousands of new attack patterns monthly, it identifies risks in model behavior and feeds insights directly into AI Guardrails policies. This creates an adaptive security cycle: proactive testing, real-time enforcement, centralized governance, and continuous refinement as AI systems and threats evolve.
By integrating these AI-specific solutions with F5’s established Application Delivery and Security Platform—including API security, web application firewalls, and DDoS protection—enterprises achieve unified visibility and policy enforcement across traditional applications and AI workloads. This approach eliminates the need for fragmented point tools and extends F5’s application-layer expertise into securing the full spectrum of modern digital experiences.
F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team are available immediately as part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, enabling organizations to deploy AI confidently at enterprise scale.
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.
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