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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.
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AI App Delivery Top 10: Inability to handle latency
AI makes latency a trust problem, not just performance: slow “assistant” responses feel like hesitation or failure, and token-heavy prompts/outputs expand work even on healthy systems.
By Lori Mac Vittie
AI App Delivery Top 10: Unoptimized traffic steering
AI breaks traditional traffic steering assumptions: backends aren’t interchangeable, costs vary, and agents fan out unpredictably—so routing must account for model, GPU health, and data locality.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Identity is the gatekeeper to agentic AI
As agentic AI shifts machines from tools to actors, identity becomes the core control: who can act, on whose behalf, with what scope—enforced inline at inference time.
By Lori Mac Vittie
AI is driving the emergence of new traffic types
AI adoption is creating new first-class traffic types: inference requests plus machine-driven automation traffic and high-volume telemetry traffic that feed control loops.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Inference is now the center of operational gravity
Multi-model operations and API-driven automation push control to inference-time layers—prompt, token/control, routing, and moderation—where cost, risk, and performance must be managed.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Goodbye Consoles, Hello Agents: The AI Revolution in Management
By 2035, AIOps will replace traditional management consoles, revolutionizing app delivery and security. Learn how this shift is already taking shape.
By Lori Mac VittieThe New Bot War: Everyone You Know Might Be Fake
AI-powered bots mimic human behavior, creating fake influence at scale. Explore how this war on authenticity breaks trust signals and challenges detection systems.
By Lori Mac Vittie
WAAP Evolution: From ‘Web App and API’ to ‘Web, API, and AI’ Protection
WAAP evolves to include AI protection. Learn why web, API, and AI security are crucial in our latest research.
By Lori Mac Vittie
All Eyes on Automation
Discover how AIOps and automation are transforming IT operations. Get insights from our State of Application Strategy 2025 report and boost your IT efficiency.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Preparing Applications and APIs for Generative AI with JSON-LD
Prepare your web apps and APIs for generative AI. Optimize metadata and use JSON-LD to ensure AI tools understand and represent your data accurately.
By Lori Mac Vittie
What is the Application Delivery Top 10?
F5 aims to help organizations address challenges in delivering and securing applications, APIs, and generative AI with the Application Delivery Top 10 list.
By Lori Mac VittieApplication Delivery and Security for AI Applications: Navigating Modern AI Architecture
Discover how generative AI applications and API security are shaping modern application delivery and security.
By Lori Mac VittieThe Impact of AI Inferencing on Data Center Architecture
To support the full AI life cycle, organizations will require significant updates in their architecture—specifically changes in the network. Failure to do so may lead to the inability scale and unreli...
By Lori Mac VittieGenerative AI’s Impact on Application Performance
Explore the impact of generative AI on latency, user experience, performance metrics, and the broader consequences of AI that could impact your applications.
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Published Cybersecurity Research: Performance and Effectiveness on ML/AI Frameworks
Solve cybersecurity challenges in a fast and scalable way with F5 research that looks at the effectiveness and performance of ML/AI frameworks.
Zero Trust: Three Key Strategic Components of Assume Breach
Breaches and failures occur. Cybersecurity professionals must embrace the zero trust principle of assume breach to internalize what other professions have long understood.
By Ken AroraTelemetry and Digital Business
Leverage telemetry data to go beyond application monitoring and observability. Learn the importance of this in a maturing digital business and IT modernization.
By Lori Mac VittieWhat Hybrid IT Means for App and API Security
The year 2022 will be remembered as the year the industry finally reconciled itself to the fact that IT is and will be for the foreseeable future, hybrid. The question is, what does that mean for secu...
By Lori Mac VittieHeadless architecture is on the rise
The explosive and expansive use of APIs is contributing to the rise of headless architecture and providing GraphQL a prominent place in this neomodern application architecture.
By Lori Mac VittieModern Hardware Enables Digital Business to Scale
Today’s xPU technology is the enabler for economies of scale because it exponentially improves performance and drives digital transformation through a specialized piece of hardware that contains speci...
By Tabitha R. R. PowellInverting the API is the Digital Transformation that Enterprises Need to Participate and Compete in an API Economy
Organizations hold latent value—in the form of internal APIs—that they need to tap into in order to compete in an API economy. While security and technical challenges may deter some, businesses need t...
By Rajesh NarayananThree Reasons Adopting Zero Trust Leads to Bot Protection and Web and API Security
Zero trust security is not achieved with the implementation of one specific technology product. It is a mindset that embraces a set of assumptions, which results in the use of distinct tools and techn...
By Lori Mac VittieThe Curious Connection Between Cloud Repatriation and SRE Operations
While the topic of public cloud repatriation may be taboo, more organizations are doing it. And our research and data indicate companies applying SRE practices are the most significant 'offenders.'
By Lori Mac VittieThe Third Wave of the Internet is Driving the Need for a New Edge Platform
Edge computing is under pressure to simultaneously evolve with each wave of the internet. As we ride the third wave, this next evolution demands the creation of a platform to support new capabilities ...
By Lori Mac VittieState of Application Strategy 2022: Multi-Cloud Complexity Continues
Complexity is synonymous with operating in multiple clouds. Magnified by the use of APIs and the increasing skills and tools deficit, this complexity isn't going away, but it can be managed.
By Lori Mac VittieAdvanced Threat Research: Dissecting the Russian-Origin Collector-Stealer Malware
Collector-stealer is an active piece of malware used across the globe. It uses a variety of mechanisms to infiltrate user systems and quietly steal sensitive data. Our security experts have uncovered ...
Hybrid Work is Driving a Shift to Identity-Centric Security
The explosive growth of automation and digitization along with a trend toward hybrid work models will accelerate the momentum away from IP-based security toward identity-based access strategies.
By Lori Mac VittieMost Missing Insights are Due to Data Bias
As business approaches a default-digital model, it necessarily relies more and more on data. Eliminating bias in that data will be a critical step in ensuring that decisions based on that data will le...
By Lori Mac VittieCX is just the tip of the DX iceberg
Savvy CIOs know that the interface is just that: a means to a much more comprehensive digital experience that crosses functional and organizational boundaries. With most organizations firmly entrenche...
By Lori Mac VittieAdaptive Applications and Event-Driven Infrastructure as Code
Most organizations employ automation with infrastructure as code but still retain control over deployments. Looking forward, we’ll see more of an event-driven approach, where the trigger itself is aut...
By Lori Mac Vittie