F5 wins seven 2026 TrustRadius Top Rated Awards

Nirav ShahSVP, Product and Solution Marketing | F5

Customer feedback continues to highlight the value of the F5 application security and delivery portfolio across hybrid and multicloud environments.

We’re proud to announce that F5 has earned seven 2026 TrustRadius Top Rated Awards, which recognize products that customers consistently rate highly for capabilities, value, and real-world impact.

These recognitions reflect more than individual product excellence—they underscore the strength of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), which unifies application delivery, security, and observability across hybrid and multicloud environments.

This marks the fourth consecutive year F5 has earned the Top Rated Awards for multiple products. This year’s award-winning solutions include:

• F5 BIG-IP
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
• F5 Distributed Cloud WAF
• F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
• F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
• F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect
• F5 NGINX

“Our Top Rated Awards are based entirely on customer feedback, making them one of the most credible recognitions in the tech industry,” said Rajat Bhatnagar, Senior Vice President of Growth for HG Insights, which manages the TrustRadius awards. “Seven F5 products earning 13 Top Rated Awards tells you something real about how F5 is performing with enterprise IT and security teams.”

Recognition across the modern application landscape

Today’s organizations are managing increasingly complex application environments spanning data centers, clouds, edge locations, and AI-driven workloads. At the same time, security threats continue to evolve rapidly, especially around AI, APIs, bots, and distributed applications.

This growing complexity is why organizations are increasingly adopting a platform approach. F5 ADSP provides a consistent foundation across environments—bringing together traffic management, security, and programmability into a single, flexible architecture that evolves with modern applications.

The breadth of this year’s TrustRadius recognition highlights how customers rely on F5 solutions across multiple layers of application delivery and security—from traffic management and connectivity to advanced application and API protection.

Whether organizations are modernizing legacy applications with F5 BIG-IP, securing distributed environments with F5 Distributed Cloud Services, or building scalable modern applications with F5 NGINX, these capabilities are brought together through F5 ADSP—enabling customers to operate with consistent security policies, centralized visibility, and streamlined operations across all application environments.

“Reviewers call out BIG-IP's reliability for mission-critical traffic management and the depth F5 Distributed Cloud brings to API security and bot defense in live production environments,” said Bhatnagar. “Congrats to the F5 team on this sweep."

Built on customer feedback

Unlike analyst-based evaluations alone, TrustRadius Top Rated Awards are rooted directly in customer reviews and user sentiment. These awards reflect the experiences and perspectives of IT professionals, security teams, architects, and operations leaders using these technologies in production environments every day.

We’re especially grateful to our customers who take the time to share candid feedback, insights, and experiences on TrustRadius. Their input not only contributes to these recognitions, but also helps guide the continued evolution of our products and platform strategy.

Thank you to our customers

We’re honored by this recognition and deeply appreciative of the customers, partners, and community members who continue to place their trust in F5.

To everyone who shared reviews and feedback on TrustRadius: thank you. Your perspectives help shape our innovation and drive us to continually improve the solutions and experiences we deliver.

Learn more about the award-winning F5 portfolio and how organizations worldwide are securing and delivering extraordinary digital experiences with F5.

About the Author

Nirav ShahSVP, Product and Solution Marketing | F5

Nirav Shah is the Senior Vice President and Head of Products and Solution Marketing at F5, where he leads the strategic direction for Application Security and AI Security. Before joining F5, he spent eleven years at Fortinet in several leadership positions, most notably heading the AI-Powered SASE, SOC, and Secure Networking solutions. His extensive background also includes significant roles at Cisco Systems, where he spearheaded major initiatives for SD-WAN. With more than two decades of experience in the cybersecurity sector, he has an established record of launching market-defining products and building high-performance teams that align product development with sales and marketing for maximum impact. As a thought leader and USC alumnus, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a regular contributor to leading publications on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity, while remaining dedicated to mentoring emerging cybersecurity professionals.

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