Blog posts on AI Security
AI Security blog posts(112)

F5 recognized as a Market Shaper in the September 2026 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant™ for AI application security
F5 is one of only two vendors recognized by Gartner as a Market Shaper.
By John Maddison
Pacing the frontier does not pace the enterprise: Preparing for AI regulation
As AI regulation evolves, consider the safeguards you can put in place now.
By Michael Montoya
Who can you trust in the age of AI agents?
New features for F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense enable organizations to distinguish between trusted and fraudulent AI traffic.
By Nirav Shah
Securing the next generation of applications, APIs, and AI-connected services
F5 Distributed Cloud Services add new capabilities for AI-connected service visibility, security automation, and faster threat response.
By Yogesh Kaushik
Gartner® identified F5 among third-party leaderboards in July 2026 Gartner Custom-Built AI Agent Security Guide report
Find out how F5 CASI helps organizations measure model risk and govern agentic AI deployments.
By Nirav Shah
Stopping frontier AI at the wire: Why inline control Is a core advantage against Mythos-class models
How cyber defense has changed in a post-Mythos world and why organizations must change their point of control.
By Abbas Kudrati
Four misconceptions execs have about AI
Misconceptions about AI abound. Here are four organizations may need to rethink as they incorporate AI into their environments.
By Kunal Anand
Why model routing may become security infrastructure
Agentic AI exposes identity limits. Specialized models plus policy-based routing binds authority to model choice, reducing blast radius and governance complexity.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Security at AI speed: Defending the enterprise against autonomous threats
F5 CTOO Michael Montoya explains what has to change now that the window between disclosure and exploitation has collapsed.
By F5 Newsroom Staff
F5’s AI-powered WAF advances virtual patching for the post-Mythos era
F5 adds innovations to block frontier AI-driven threats in the data path and enable faster virtual patching.
By Nirav Shah
Four reasons not to miss the F5 Post-Mythos Security Summit
Get expert advice to defend your apps, APIs, and models in the post-Mythos world.
By John Maddison
F5 AI Gateway: Single control point for all enterprise AI
F5 AI Gateway gives enterprises one control plane to govern, secure, and optimize every AI model, agent, and tool—and cut token costs by 30–60%.
By Nirav Shah
Why F5 joined the Open Secure AI Alliance
F5 joins NVIDIA and other industry leaders in the Open Secure AI Alliance, formed to develop and share open tools that promote responsible use of and trust in AI.
By Kunal Anand
The authority trap: What F5 Labs AI threat intelligence reveals about AI’s expanding attack surface
F5 Labs research across F5 CASI, F5 ARS. and threat intelligence shows how model risk, shifting resilience, and excessive authority expand the AI attack surface.
By Malcolm Heath, Louise Scully
Our first hardened release cycle: What we learned and how we’re changing
F5 will shift to a six-week cadence for hardened releases starting September 2.
By Kunal Anand
F5 AI Red Team: One-time gate or ongoing practice?
Learn why static, point-in-time testing can't keep up with how fast AI models change, and what continuous, tailored red teaming looks like in practice.
By Keiko Cheung
AI economics will be decided in transit
See why inference routing, security, and in-path controls—not faster GPUs alone—will shape cost per token and AI infrastructure economics.
By Santosh Erram
Multi-model AI security strategies: Two steps to take now
Key actions enterprises can take today to improve multi-model AI visibility and cybersecurity amid explosive agentic AI growth.
By Lee Ennis
SecureIQLab’s independent multi-vendor testing puts F5 in the Leader tier for security and operational efficiency
F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP placed in top tier for security efficacy and operational efficiency.
By Nirav Shah
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF provided native protection to customers for CVE-2026-42208
See how F5's layered, multi-signal approach to vulnerability detection accelerates time to protection without disrupting legitimate users.
By Debrup Ghosh, Justin Gonzales
Securing AI at scale with F5 and Google Cloud
Find out how F5 AI Guardrails can help enforce consistent security and governance across all your models, applications, and agents on Google Cloud.
By Beth McElroy
From one app to a fleet of agents: A 90-day AI security framework
Skip the costly “deploy now, secure later” approach with a comprehensive framework for protecting AI models, applications, and autonomous agents.
By James White, Jessica Brennan
The next era of AI is sharing. Kimi K3 just made it expensive.
Kimi K3 shows why open frontier models need rack-scale infrastructure. See how F5 and NVIDIA improve secure, efficient AI inference delivery.
By Ahmed Guetari
The operational reality of AI-era security and how we're helping you meet it
As frontier AI shifts security, F5 is closing the gap between finding issues and deploying fixes.
By Michael Montoya
Announcing new fleet management capabilities within F5 Insight for ADSP
F5 is helping organizations simplify the software update and patching process for F5 BIG-IP.
By Zach Westall
Five capabilities every digital sovereignty strategy needs
Learn how F5 ADSP provides the foundation organizations need to reduce complexity and adapt flexibly as their digital sovereignty strategies evolve.
By Nirav Shah
Securing F5 NGINX in the age of AI
How F5 is applying AI-driven security practices across the F5 NGINX portfolio to help deliver safer, more resilient software.
By Jay Bhalod
A faster release cadence: What's changing at F5, and what you need to do
Read on to learn how F5 is accelerating its software release and security notification cadence and what you can do to prepare.
By Kunal Anand
15 years, one lesson: Growth comes from reinventing yourself
As F5 celebrates 30 years, F5er Jack Wang reflects on 15 years of growth, mentorship, innovation, and the culture that inspired him to stay.
By F5 Newsroom Staff
Securing the new control points in the AI journey
AI architecture is fundamentally different than traditional IT environments and requires a different security strategy to protect critical AI workloads.
By Kunal Anand