As enterprises continue to scale artificial intelligence across critical business operations, F5 has announced the general availability of F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, two advanced solutions designed to secure mission-critical AI systems. With this launch, F5 positions itself as the only vendor offering a truly comprehensive, end-to-end lifecycle approach to AI runtime security, enabling organizations to connect, monitor, and protect AI agents using both prebuilt and custom guardrails.
Notably, these new security offerings respond directly to growing customer demand for flexible deployment options, model-agnostic protection, and real-time adaptability. Drawing on F5’s long-standing expertise at the application layer where AI interactions take place the solutions help enterprises enforce AI security policies dynamically. As a result, F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team are already in use at Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including organizations operating in highly regulated sectors such as financial services and healthcare.
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“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.”
Meanwhile, as enterprises expand AI usage across customer experiences, internal workflows, and high-stakes decision-making, the threat landscape continues to evolve. Organizations now face challenges beyond traditional cyberattacks, including adversarial model manipulation, sensitive data exposure, unpredictable user behavior, and mounting compliance requirements. By combining F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team with existing protections such as API security, web application firewalls, and DDoS mitigation enterprises can secure AI workloads alongside conventional applications. Consequently, this unified approach improves visibility and policy consistency while reducing reliance on fragmented point solutions.
Building on its robust Application Delivery and Security Platform, F5 extends its leadership in modern application and API protection into the AI era. These new offerings transform AI risk into confident, scalable deployment by addressing how AI systems actually operate in real-world environments, where models differ widely and frequently interact with sensitive data and complex ecosystems.
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At the core of this strategy, F5 AI Guardrails delivers a model-agnostic runtime security layer that protects every AI model, application, and agent across clouds and deployment environments. As AI adoption accelerates into the millions of models, the solution consistently defends against threats like prompt injection and jailbreak attacks, prevents data leakage, and enforces compliance with regulations such as GDPR and the EU AI Act. Additionally, its deep observability enables teams to understand not only what an AI model produced, but why an essential capability for governance and audits.
Complementing this runtime defense, F5 AI Red Team provides continuous, automated adversarial testing using the industry’s leading AI vulnerability database. By adding more than 10,000 new attack techniques each month, the solution uncovers hidden weaknesses and feeds insights back into AI Guardrails policies. Together, the two solutions create a continuous security feedback loop that supports proactive testing, adaptive enforcement, centralized governance, and ongoing improvement as AI systems evolve.
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