James White's blog posts

What are AI guardrails? Evolving safety beyond foundational model providers

See why AI guardrails must evolve to address a more holistic picture of risk within organizations’ rapidly evolving threat surfaces.

Explainability: Shining a Light into the AI Black Box

Insights by James White, CTO, CalypsoAI With GenAI, we now have a good understanding of how answers are generated and given back to us. Simply, AI is a transformer architecture — it’s choosing the bes...

The New AI Risk Surface: Invisible, Autonomous, and Already Inside

James White, VP, Engineering, F5 At the halfway point of 2025, it’s timely to take a snapshot of enterprise AI adoption and the state of AI security. Enterprise GenAI Usage is Now Standard Across the ...

Zero Trust for AI: Why Autonomous Agents Require a New Security Paradigm

Zero Trust has long been the standard for securing human access—but today’s enterprise environments demand a new extension: Zero Trust for AI. As AI agents begin making decisions, interacting with sys...

Understanding MCP: Limitations Beyond the Protocol

By James White, VP, Engineering, F5 Model Context Protocol (MCP) is fast becoming a pillar of the agentic AI ecosystem. Designed as a standard way for AI agents to interface with tools, APIs, and exte...

How AI Agents Are Growing Up in the Enterprise

AI agents aren’t just hype, they’re in production and they’re hitting a growth spurt. James White, VP of Engineering at F5, makes a powerful observation: if you want to understand agents, don’t think ...

When high scores aren’t enough: What Qwen3 taught us

Securing the agentic era: From hype to high stakes

As agentic hype solidifies into reality, organizations around the world are constructing use cases for AI agents to work within their walls. By connecting foundation models to tools and data sources, ...

Agentic Resistance: Accelerating AI for Its Intended Purposes

Exploring an Attack in the AI Era

Securing AI: The Dormant Threat That Must Be Contained

Securing AI: The Future is Runtime

By James White, VP, Engineering, F5 The promises of AI for enterprises are endless, and industries of all types are eager to get involved—from healthcare to financial institutions to government and mo...