Kara Sprague's blog posts

F5 Makes CISA Secure by Design Pledge, Aligning with Industry on Security Deliverables

F5 partners with the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—joining over 150 companies that have taken CISA’s Secure by Design pledge.

F5 Research Shows How APIs and AI Are Transforming App Security

F5 Chief Product Officer Kara Sprague shares new research on how APIs, hybrid multicloud environments, and AI are changing customer needs in application security and delivery.

At F5, Ridiculously Easy App Security and Delivery Is Our Guiding Light

For customers who have apps deployed on-prem, in multiple public clouds, and at the edge, F5 is the only vendor with complete solutions for each of those environments.

F5 Awards STEM Education Grants to Nonprofits Serving Women & Girls of Color

F5 is thrilled to announce our 2023 F5 STEM Education Grant Partners. These partners offer programs to inspire women & girls of color to pursue STEM careers.

F5’s OpenTelemetry Contribution Advances Our Adaptive Apps Vision

F5’s recent OpenTelemetry protocol contribution unlocks significant savings and performance benefits for customers, while advancing our adaptive apps vision.

The Era of Application Capital: Five Years Later

Discover the importance of an application-centric approach to modern enterprise capital in the digital transformation era in this expert analysis by F5.

Reimagining App Security for a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud World

With organizations’ apps and APIs increasingly distributed across on-premises, multiple public cloud, and edge environments, the already challenging objective of securing those assets is even more dif...

Expanding STEM Career Paths for Women and Girls of Color

As we mark National STEM Day, Executive Vice President Kara Sprague honors F5’s 2022 STEM Education Grant partners—10 nonprofits working hard to encourage more women and girls around the globe pursue ...

State of Application Strategy 2022: The Future of Business Is Adaptive

Discover the major trends of F5's 2022 State of Application Strategy Report to see how businesses adapt app modernization, security, and delivery for the future.

Secure, Simplify, Innovate: Charting a Path to Adaptive Apps

Digital acceleration punctuates each set of opportunities and challenges that organizations face. Business leaders seek to improve customer experience, transform the business, and differentiate throug...

Providing Predictability with Quarterly Security Notifications

F5 is making a change in how we handle the public communication of security issues in our software products. We're moving to a predictable quarterly cadence when we have CVEs or exposures to disclose....

Extending Adaptive Applications to the Edge

Volterra's universal, multi-cloud technology enables industry-standard containers to execute anywhere, across any public cloud, private cloud, or enterprise data center. Together with F5’s industry-le...

We are Entering a New World of “Adaptive Applications.” Here’s What that Means.

Automatically grow, shrink, defend, and heal your modern adaptive applications. Learn how F5 helps you scale and secure your apps for an extraordinary customer experience.

Bridging the Divide with F5 and NGINX

F5 and NGINX are not just integrating to go to market in the same old way together. The fundamental inspiration behind the acquisition was the fact that there’s a ton of value we can deliver together ...

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