David Warburton
Director, F5 Labs
David Warburton is director of F5 Labs. He has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years, starting life as a full stack developer before wrangling with the perils of cloud architecture and then moving the serene and peaceful life of cyber security. His research covers a wide range of topics from the deeply technical, such as cryptography, to the more real-world sociotechnical side of security.
Research by David Warburton (45)
Report | Sep 22, 2026
2026 State of PQC on the Web
Explore F5 Labs’ 2026 PQC report: adoption trends, CDN dependence, TLS technical debt, certificate risks, and steps toward quantum resilience.
70 min read
Article | Mar 5, 2026
CASI Leaderboard Shifts: Sugar-Coated Poison, and the Expanding AI Attack Surface
AI Security Insights – March 2026
7 min read
Article | Feb 26, 2026
AI Capabilities Are Advancing Faster Than AI Security
AI Security Insights – February 2026
7 min read
Article | Feb 3, 2026
AI Security at the 2026 Winter Games: The Ultimate Stress Test
A look at how AI powering the 2026 Winter Games is vulnerable to adversarial prompts, behavioral vulnerabilities, and weak guardrails.
4 min read
Article | Dec 15, 2025
2026 Cybersecurity Predictions
Whatever you think will happen… will happen faster and with more acronyms than ever before.
13 min read
Article | Dec 11, 2025
Adversarial Poetry and the Efficacy of AI Guardrails
We investigate the rise of adversarial poetry in AI security. Understand how metaphor-based exploits circumvent guardrails and the defenses we need for LLMs moving forward.
4 min read
Article | Dec 5, 2025
HashJack Attack Targets AI Browsers and Agentic AI Systems
A new wave of client-side attacks bypasses enterprise defenses.
6 min read
Report | Jun 26, 2025
The 2025 State of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) on the Web
We analyze the world’s most popular websites and most widely used web browsers to determine the current state of PQC adoption on the web.
26 min read
Article | Mar 29, 2025
2025 Advanced Persistent Bot Report: Scraper Bots Deep-Dive
How much do scraper bots affect your industry?
5 min read
Article | Mar 28, 2025
Prevent Web Scraping by Applying the Pyramid of Pain
The Bots Pyramid of Pain: a framework for effective bot defense.
4 min read
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