AI Security for Supply Chain

F5 Newsroom Staff

Supply chains are increasingly powered by AI — from demand forecasting and logistics planning to vendor risk analysis and real-time inventory management. These tools help enterprises cut costs, improve resilience, and adapt to global disruptions. But they also create new risks across a vast ecosystem:

• Leakage of confidential shipping data, supplier pricing, or trade secrets
• Prompt injections manipulating supply chain copilots or logistics models
• AI-driven errors in forecasting causing costly disruptions or overstocking
• Lack of visibility into how AI recommendations are made and enforced

Our AI runtime security solutions secure the Supply Chain vertical with Red Team to validate, Guardrails to protect, and inbuilt Observability to govern AI deployments.

Red Team: Validate Supply Chain AI Against Real-World Threats

F5 AI Red Team, previously named Inference Red-Team, proactively stress-tests AI-powered supply chain applications before adversaries can exploit them.

• Agentic Resistance: Multi-turn attacks simulating adversaries attempting to manipulate logistics outputs or exfiltrate vendor data.
• Signature & Operational Attacks: 50,000+ evolving exploits uncover vulnerabilities in demand forecasting, transportation copilots, and supplier risk models.
• Ecosystem Testing: Evaluates how applications behave in interconnected supply chain environments, where third-party risk is a constant factor.

Outcome for Supply Chain Leaders: AI-driven logistics and forecasting applications are hardened against misuse, ensuring continuity and resilience.

Guardrails: Real-Time Protection for Supply Chain AI

Once deployed, AI Guardrails, previously named Inference Defend, secures live supply chain applications at runtime, stopping threats before they disrupt operations.

• Prevent Data Leaks: Blocks unauthorized sharing of trade secrets, supplier data, or logistics routes.
• Stop Adversarial Exploits: Detects and prevents prompt injections that could manipulate AI-powered inventory or transport decisions.
• Customizable Controls: Security policies align to supply chain regulations (customs, trade compliance, ESG sourcing standards).

Outcome for Supply Chain Leaders: Reliable, compliant AI applications that keep goods and data moving securely across global networks.

Observability: Oversight & Compliance for Global Supply Chains

Supply chains require visibility and accountability across complex, multi-party ecosystems. Our inbuilt observability features provide full oversight of how AI is being used to manage logistics and vendor relationships.

• Global Dashboards: A centralized view of AI usage and security events to enable compliance across the entire enterprise.
• Audit-Ready Logs: Complete traceability of AI decisions for regulatory reviews, ESG reporting, or dispute resolution.
• Policy Enforcement: Flags outputs that violate trade regulations, procurement policies, or compliance frameworks.

Outcome for Supply Chain Leaders: Trusted oversight into AI-driven supply chain decisions, ensuring security, fairness, and resilience at scale.

Comprehensive AI Security for Supply Chain

With Red Team, Guardrails, and Observability, supply chain leaders gain:

• Operational Resilience: Prevents adversarial manipulation that could disrupt logistics or forecasting.
• Data & IP Security: Protects sensitive trade, pricing, and route information from leakage.
• Compliance Readiness: Simplifies adherence to trade laws, ESG mandates, and global regulations.
• Trusted Innovation: Enables adoption of AI-powered supply chain solutions without introducing new systemic risk.

The Bottom Line

Our suite of AI runtime security solutions secures the Supply Chain vertical by ensuring logistics, forecasting, and vendor management applications are validated, protected, and observable — helping enterprises build resilient, trusted global operations.

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