As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, security gaps are widening—and F5 is stepping in to fill them. The company today announced general availability of F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, positioning itself as one of the first vendors to offer a full end-to-end lifecycle approach to AI runtime security.
These solutions are already deployed across Fortune 500 organizations in highly regulated industries like financial services and healthcare, protecting AI systems that drive mission-critical workflows.
Security That Moves at AI Speed
“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’s approach addresses both proactive and reactive risks:
- AI Guardrails: Provides a model-agnostic runtime security layer that enforces policies across every AI app, model, and agent—regardless of deployment or cloud environment. It protects against prompt injection, jailbreak attacks, and sensitive data leaks, while maintaining observability and auditability for governance and regulatory compliance.
- AI Red Team: Delivers automated, scalable adversarial testing to identify vulnerabilities before models reach production. Insights from Red Team feed directly into Guardrails, creating a continuous feedback loop that adapts to evolving threats.
The combination allows enterprises to deploy AI confidently while maintaining compliance with GDPR, the EU AI Act, and internal corporate policies.
Addressing the New AI Risk Landscape
As AI integrates into customer experiences, internal workflows, and decision-making systems, organizations face unique security challenges:
- Adversarial attacks on models
- Unintended or unpredictable AI behavior
- Data leakage across AI systems and APIs
- Rapidly evolving regulatory obligations
F5 extends its application-layer expertise—traditionally focused on web applications, APIs, and DDoS protection—into AI systems, offering consistent policy enforcement and visibility across both legacy and next-generation applications.
By pairing AI runtime security with existing infrastructure protections, organizations can reduce fragmented controls and manage risks across the entire stack.
Continuous AI Security for Enterprises
F5 AI Guardrails and AI Red Team work together to create a self-reinforcing security ecosystem:
- Guardrails enforces policies in real-time, preventing threats and ensuring compliance
- Red Team identifies emerging vulnerabilities with monthly updates of over 10,000 attack techniques, simulating both common and obscure adversarial scenarios
- Insights feed back into Guardrails, enabling adaptive defenses and proactive mitigation
This continuous assurance model transforms AI risk from a reactive concern into a managed, predictable element of enterprise operations.
As organizations scale AI models into the millions, F5’s solutions provide centralized governance, runtime protection, and continuous testing—all designed to keep AI systems secure, compliant, and reliable.
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