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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
AI found it. AI is stopping it.
How existing F5 WAF signatures and AI-powered risk scoring stopped PHP2Shell.
By Ramy Houssaini, Debrup Ghosh, Muhammad Abid
IDC MarketScape recognized F5 as a Leader in Web Application and API Protection Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment
IDC MarketScape noted key strengths of F5 including AI-powered WAF.
By Nirav ShahAll Blog Posts(906)
Delivering and securing AI agents in AI factories: F5 for the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture for safe AI agents
F5 solutions extend the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture for safe AI agents.
By Kunal Anand
Bot detection isn’t enough in the agentic AI era
Agentic AI is creating autonomous agents that can reason, plan, and act. That means more pressure on security teams to determine bot intent and how to respond.
By Vikas Shetty
The inference path is the traffic path: Where AI security has to live
AI traffic now carries intent, data, and actions. Learn why the inference path has become the most important place to enforce AI security.
By Abbas Kudrati
Cloud-native modernization for the AI and 5G/6G era
See why 5G/6G, Kubernetes maturity, and AI are accelerating cloud-native modernization, and how F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition improves efficiency.
By Ahmed Guetari
What infrastructure efficiency means at service provider scale
Independent testing from The Tolly Group shows how F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition improved resource efficiency across DNS and L4+CGNAT workloads on Red Hat OpenShift.
By Shoaib Yusuf
One control plane for apps and AI
See how F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition can help you improve application and AI delivery with a single ADC solution operating on Equinix Network Edge.
By Joe Kanagusuku
F5 and Omnissa protect and optimize the digital workspace
Find out how F5 and Omnissa are working together to enable secure, resilient, and scalable virtual desktop and application delivery architectures.
By Yuichi Miyazaki
F5 Labs AI model security insights: What CISOs need to measure both before and after deployment
Performance is not a security measure. Learn what CISOs should measure across the AI lifecycle using F5 CASI, F5 ARS, and F5 threat intelligence.
By Malcolm Heath, Louise Scully
Right for the wrong reasons: The unstoppable rise to 2 billion APIs
The old API sprawl math was human-limited. AI agents now create and chain endpoints autonomously, driving rapid growth in AI-related API calls and integrations.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Agentic AI changes the key questions for CISOs
As non-human identities proliferate, F5 research suggests more visibility, governance, and accountability are needed to minimize cybersecurity risk.
By Sean Murphy
Flexibility and control: The seemingly contradictory needs driving hybrid cloud adoption
How hybrid multicloud moved from an interim state to a deliberate architecture design choice, and why C-suite leaders continue embracing it.
By François Locoh-Donou
How three enterprises improved virtual patching and runtime security with AI-powered WAF
See how three F5 customers use AI-powered WAF to accelerate virtual patching, cut false positives by more than 50%, and enforce blocking mode with confidence.
By Debrup Ghosh, Bethany Aye
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
Why the White House Login.gov mandate demands an identity broker strategy
See what agencies can do to navigate the OMB mandate before critical compliance milestones take effect.
By Steve Wallace
Rooted in culture, driven by impact: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month at F5
This Hispanic Heritage Month, three members of F5’s LatinX Employee Inclusion Group share how their heritage shapes their work, communities, and careers.
By Roberto Ricossa
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
Poisoned packages are killing our industry
Open source lacks a central registry for malicious packages even as AI and automation accelerate supply-chain abuse. The ecosystem needs a trusted way to report and track compromises.
By James Hendergart
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
Validated integrations, real outcomes: Inside the F5 ADSP Partner Program
The F5 ADSP Partner Program delivers pre-validated integrations—like automated TLS certificate lifecycle management for F5 BIG-IP—to cut risk and speed PQC readiness.
By Yuichi MiyazakiTransforming hybrid cloud operations: How a leading credit union is future-proofing with rSeries and F5 Insight
See how a major credit union got immediate results by moving from manual, fragmented device management to a unified interface that spans its deployments with F5 Insight.
By Zach Westall
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
Architecting application-adjacent WAF defense in Google Cloud
Architect multi-layered defense in Google Cloud by pairing edge security with application-adjacent WAF to protect workloads and cut operational complexity.
By Ilya Krutov, Brian Ehlert
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
Here’s how a global cloud provider improves data delivery with F5
Object storage was built to hold data, not move it. Read how one cloud provider re-architected AI data delivery with F5 BIG-IP.
By Hunter Smit
26 years later, it's still the people
As F5 celebrates 30 years, F5er Laura Hendrickson reflects on her long tenure at F5.
By F5 Newsroom Staff
AI App Delivery Top 10: Poor resource utilization
AI makes resource utilization volatile: request cost varies wildly by prompt, context, and reasoning, so routing by simple RPS creates GPU hotspots, queues, and latency spikes.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Three interns. Three regions. One F5.
Discover how three F5 interns turned stimulating projects into meaningful internship experiences.
By F5 Newsroom Staff
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
AI App Delivery Top 10: Bespoke application requirements
AI turns “bespoke” from edge case into default: requests become compositional chains (model select, retrieval, policy, tools), so delivery must adapt per request, not per app.
By Lori Mac Vittie