Enterprises across industries are rapidly developing AI-powered application suites—from HR and payroll platforms, to customer experience copilots, to financial and legal assistants. These AI applications bring massive productivity gains, but they also expand the attack surface in ways traditional security cannot address:
- Sensitive customer and business data flowing into prompts and outputs
- Prompt injections and jailbreaks manipulating AI behaviors
- Lack of visibility into how applications perform under real-world pressure
- Complex, evolving compliance requirements across global markets
Our AI runtime security solutions secure the Application Suite vertical with a combination of proactive red-teaming and real-time defense, purpose-built for AI.
Red-Team: Validate Application Security Before Launch
F5 AI Red Team, previously known as Inference Red-Team, is the industry’s first agent-powered adversarial testing platform for AI applications. It simulates real-world threats to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems before attackers do, ensuring applications can be trusted at scale.
- Agentic Resistance: Multi-turn, adaptive attack campaigns that expose weaknesses in copilots, RAG apps, and autonomous agents.
- Signature & Operational Attacks: A library of 50,000+ evolving exploits, including prompt injection, denial-of-service, and data leakage vectors.
- Application-Specific Assurance: Validates how an AI application behaves in real-world use, not just how the base model performs.
Outcome for the Application Suite: AI applications are rigorously tested for resilience and compliance before deployment, accelerating secure go-live.
AI Guardrails: Protect Applications in Real Time
Once AI applications are in production, F5 AI Guardrails, previously known as Inference Defend, provides real-time protection at the inference layer—the moment when applications interact with live data and users.
- Stops Adversarial Exploits Instantly: Blocks prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data exfiltration attempts.
- Customizable to Business Context: Security policies align to the specific risk and regulatory profile of each application.
- Adaptive & Invisible: Security evolves continuously without disrupting application performance or user experience.
Outcome for the Application Suite: Applications stay safe and compliant while operating at scale—without blocking innovation.
AI Security for Application Suites
With AI Guardrails and Red Team, enterprises deploying AI-powered application suites gain:
- Trustworthy Applications: Validated, hardened, and continuously protected against AI-specific risks.
- Regulatory Readiness: Built-in compliance with frameworks includingGDPR and the EU AI Act, supported by audit-ready logs.
- Reduced Risk & Cost: Avoidance of breaches, fines, and downtime that can cost millions.
- Faster Innovation: Security becomes an enabler, not a barrier, to deploying new AI applications at speed
The Bottom Line
Our AI runtime security solutions ensure the Application Suite vertical can safely embrace AI, delivering trusted copilots, secure chatbots, and resilient enterprise apps that scale with confidence.
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