F5 AI Guardrails

Define and deploy agile data security, threat management, and governance for AI models, apps, and agents.

Secure AI systems and connected data—from pilot to production

Threat actors discover new ways to attack, models find new paths to harmful outputs, and users find new ways to break policy. F5 AI Guardrails secures AI models and agents against malicious threats, data leakage, and harmful outputs with industry leading efficacy and unmatched deployment flexibility.

Benefits

Combat adversarial attacks

Safeguard AI systems from evolving threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks
  • Prompt Injection Defense: Protect against prompt injection attacks, data exfiltration, and jailbreak attacks without excessive false positives
  • Threat-Informed Protection: Backed by the preeminent AI threat library with over 10,000 attack patterns added monthly, F5 Labs Threat Research ensures threat protection outpaces emerging attack techniques
  • CASI Model Risk Leaderboard: Inform model selection with detailed testing into the risk profiles unique to the most prominent models
Combat adversarial attacks

Secure AI data

Detect and prevent data leakage, compliance failures, and policy violations at runtime
  • Model-agnostic policy enforcement: Secure the millions of public and proprietary models with consistent policy enforcement and privacy
  • Custom policy creation: Rapidly create bespoke, policy-driven security controls tailored by use case, region, and industry through an intuitive natural language interface
  • Day 1 Compliance Controls: Expert-built guardrails for PII leakage, EU AI Act alignment, PCI, and PHI protection
Secure AI data

Govern responsible AI usage

Obstruct harmful outputs, and enforce restrictions on model and agent privileges
  • F5 AI Guardrails helps teams adapt security as requirements change
  • Secure AI Agents: Prevent excessive agency and privilege escalation by enforcing guardrails on agent actions and tool use
  • Content Moderation: Align AI outputs to enterprise-specific definitions of biased, toxic, or harmful content
Govern responsible AI usage

Simplify AI observability

Maintain continuous visibility and traceability across all models, users, and agent interactions
  • Audit-ready logging: Explain and trace every enforcement action with detailed analysis and guardrail attribution
  • Agent Visibility: Observe and log system prompts, instructions, model reasoning, and tool calls for single- or multi-agent systems.
  • Performance Dashboard: Continuously monitor performance metrics, usage trends, and recent enforcement actions in a unified dashboard or exported to a third-party SIEM
Simplify AI observability

Core capabilities

F5 AI Guardrails mitigates risks like data leakage, harmful outputs, and adversarial attacks with comprehensive runtime security for deployed AI models and agents.

Custom guardrail creation

Create bespoke controls in seconds through natural language

Threat-informed protection

Defend against prompt injection and jailbreak attacks with expert-built guardrails

Content moderation

Avoid harmful outputs with safeguards for toxic, biased, or inaccurate content

Private AI

Maintain consistent privacy with full functionality in on-prem and fully air-gapped deployments

Audit-ready traceability

Explain and trace every interaction and why it was blocked or allowed

Simplified compliance

Ensure enterprise-wide policy alignment with automated auditing templates for GDPR, HIPAA, EUAIA, and more.

Semantic data security

Prevent sensitive data leakage of standard and custom categories during AI interactions

Secure agentic AI

Audit and block unauthorized tool calls and agent actions

Deployment methods

Model-agnostic

Guardrails delivers consistent policy enforcement for every public and private AI model

Public cloud

Deploy guardrails in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Private cloud

Confine all data, inspection, and enforcement actions to private compute boundaries

On-prem

Maintain full functionality in on-prem or fully air-gapped environments

Supported agents

Apply the same guardrails to any OpenAI, Anthropic, or similarly formatted AI agent

Technology alliances

Stronger AI security with the partners you trust

F5 integrates with leading security and AI vendors to extend protection across the full lifecycle. Joint solutions secure data, models, and the APIs between them, keeping your AI fast, governed, and under your control.

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Resources

FAQs

AI guardrails are frameworks of policies, technologies, and controls designed to ensure that AI systems operate securely and responsibly within defined boundaries. In the enterprise context, this includes mitigating risks such as adversarial attacks, data leakage, and compliance failures. The requirement for AI guardrails must go beyond merely preventing undesired behavior to proactively flagging risks, protecting sensitive data, and enabling trust across complex, multi-model systems.

F5 AI Guardrails applies content moderation filters and custom policy controls at runtime to inspect model outputs before they reach users. You can deploy out-of-the-box safeguards or create custom guardrails using natural language to detect and block toxic, biased, or harmful content. If a particular hallucination category has been observed at high frequency, F5 AI Guardrails lets you define rules that constrain model responses to avoid high-risk topics and prevent outputs that deviate from acceptable parameters.

F5 AI Guardrails includes out-of-the-box policy controls aligned to PCI, PHI, and EU AI Act prohibited-risk categories. It secures multiple sensitive data patterns at runtime and logs every enforcement action with transparent reasoning. These audit-ready logs simplify reporting for compliance teams and support enterprise governance requirements.




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