Four reasons not to miss the F5 Post-Mythos Security Summit

John MaddisonChief Marketing Officer | F5

The threat landscape is changing swiftly as increasingly capable AI models alter the speed and scale of attacks. Frontier AI can accelerate vulnerability discovery and exploit development, shrinking the time defenders need to respond and putting new pressure on traditional patch-and-remediate approaches.

During conversations with customers, this expanding risk environment is often called the “post-Mythos world,” reflecting the arrival of frontier AI capable of finding software vulnerabilities at machine speed. In this new threat paradigm, organizations require security strategies that can help protect applications, APIs, and AI systems even as threats evolve faster and attack surfaces expand.

The F5 Post-Mythos Security Summit, which F5 is offeringon-demand starting September 10, is urgently timed to help you prepare a defense.

For years, security teams have measured response times in days or weeks. In a post-Mythos world, AI-powered attackers could compress that timeline to hours or minutes. Organizations need new strategies to protect applications, APIs, and AI systems before vulnerabilities can be exploited.

This summit features perspectives from F5 leadership, Forrester analysts, and technology partners including CrowdStrike. Sessions are available on demand, allowing you to watch the content most relevant to your role and schedule.

Here are four reasons you won’t want to miss this virtual summit:

1 - Learn how F5 is bolstering protection for the AI era

The summit kicks off September 10 alongside a major F5 security announcement addressing the rapidly changing threat landscape. I will open the summit by sharing my perspective on how AI is reshaping cybersecurity and why applications, APIs, and AI models are becoming critical risk surfaces for organizations.

You’ll gain more insight into F5’s latest security advances and how they fit into a broader strategy for helping organizations respond to AI-era threats.

2 - Explore today’s most pressing security challenges

What happens when attackers can exploit vulnerabilities faster than organizations can patch them? How should application security evolve as offensive AI becomes more sophisticated? How can businesses distinguish legitimate AI agents from malicious automation? And how should organizations protect their own AI systems while simultaneously preparing for the emerging risks of quantum computing?

Several forward-thinking summit presentations take on questions like these, along with the concrete implications for your enterprise.

3 - Hear what CISOs should demand from security vendors

The summit also brings an independent industry perspective to the discussion.

Sandy Carielli, Vice President and Principal Analyst at global research and advisory firm Forrester, joins F5’s Nirav Shah for a CISO-focused fireside chat about how security leaders should respond as traditional assumptions about vulnerability management and application security are challenged.

Their conversation will examine what CISOs should expect from security vendors today, including how capabilities such as WAF, API security, DDoS protection, and bot management are evolving, why protecting applications and APIs in the data path matters as patch cycles struggle to keep pace, and how considerations such as hybrid multicloud environments and digital sovereignty affect security decisions.

4 - Shine a light on network security blind spots

Applications and traditional endpoints aren’t the only targets attackers are pursuing. Network infrastructure can also provide entry points for attackers seeking to move laterally, manipulate traffic, or establish persistence, potentially outside the visibility of endpoint-focused security tools.

In another fireside chat, F5 and CrowdStrike leaders explore these network blind spots and how organizations can extend detection and response deeper into network infrastructure. The discussion will examine how the F5-CrowdStrike partnership can help organizations gain more unified visibility across endpoints, cloud environments, identities, and network infrastructure and strengthen protection across an expanding attack surface.

Whether you're responsible for application security, API protection, AI governance, or broader cyber strategy, the F5 Post-Mythos Security Summit offers practical insights for navigating this AI-accelerated exploitation environment. View the agenda and register today.

About the Author

John MaddisonChief Marketing Officer | F5

John Maddison is F5’s Chief Marketing Officer. John has more than 30 years of experience leading product teams and corporate marketing functions in cybersecurity, cloud, and telecommunications. Prior to F5, John spent 12 years at Fortinet, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer and EVP of Product Strategy. He previously held leadership positions at Trend Micro, Vina Communications, and Octel Communications. John holds a B.S. in Engineering degree from Plymouth University in Devon, England.

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