F5 Workforce AI Security
Mitigate shadow AI and build a foundation for secure AI adoption with rapid visibility into the AI tools, prompts, and sensitive data being used across the workforce.
You can’t secure what you can’t see
Employees are using AI whether it's approved or not. This shadow AI usage introduces unknown risks, from sensitive data leakage to compliance violations. Without a clear picture of your organization's AI footprint, security leaders are left guessing the true scope of risk exposure.
The foundation for visibility and usage control
Gain complete AI visibility
See all AI usage across your full network
- See every interaction: Capture every AI interaction at the network level and integrate with existing security stacks—no agents or extensions needed. See who's using AI, when, and why.
- Log every detail: Log all AI interactions across public and private models with comprehensive audit trails showing the full journey of each AI request, response, and user intent.
- Visualize usage: Bring AI usage data to life with patterns across teams, classified user intent, and insights into where additional support might be needed.
Mitigate sensitive data risks
Understand the business intent behind every AI interaction
- Stop data leaks: With a smart filter, all AI interactions are identified for sensitive information with inline redaction. Teams get the answers they need without exposing sensitive data to public AI tools.
- Control model access: Directory integration makes it easy to manage users and groups across models and data sources, giving users proper access for boosted productivity.
- Create smarter policies: Tailor AI governance to fit your organization’s unique needs with a flexible policy system allowing for granular group-based permissions.
Tap into the AI Security Platform
Gain full security and visibility control with the F5 AI Security Platform
- Inventory of all AI usage: Passively identify all AI usage, including sanctioned apps, private models, and shadow AI, across the entire network. A frictionless approach provides a complete, real-time inventory without agents or extensions, forming the foundation of any AI security strategy.
- Classify user intent: Go beyond what models are being used and understand the why behind AI use. The F5 AI Security platform classifies every interaction by its business intent, for example "summarization" or "code generation." This critical context helps you identify high-risk usage patterns and tailor effective security policies.
- Connect to the full power of the F5 AI Security Platform: Workforce AI Security is one component of the comprehensive AI Security Platform. Feed discovery insights directly into F5 AI Red Team to automate security testing and establish F5 AI Guardrails to enforce runtime protection. Deliver a unified, proactive security posture across all AI.
Core capabilities
Safely accelerate organization-wide AI adoption by delivering complete visibility, discovery, and governance over workplace AI interactions.
AI discovery
Automatically identify and catalog all AI services your workforce uses as they appear in your traffic.
AI inventory
Maintain a centralized registry of the AI services, models, and agent tools in active use.
Usage insights
Gain deep, continuous insights into employee interactions, including prompts and data flows, to understand exactly how AI is being leveraged.
Adaptive usage controls
Enforce context-aware policies that route requests to approved enterprise models, block high-risk or prohibited services, and protect sensitive data before it reaches a model.
Audit-ready logging
Simplify compliance and governance with traceable records of AI interactions and the policy decisions applied to them.
Agent action controls
Inspect and classify tool calls across MCP servers and supported agent tools, applying policy before an action executes.
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Through an ecosystem of managed service providers, systems integrators, and technology vendors, we provide joint AI solutions that seamlessly integrate into your environment. This ensures your AI adoption is fast, governed, and secure from end to end.
Frequently asked questions
Workforce AI Security discovers AI usage by passively analyzing network traffic. This frictionless, agentless approach provides a complete and real-time inventory of all AI applications and interactions without any changes to existing infrastructures. Once you have this complete visibility, you can use our central policy engine to control access and apply granular rules to ensure your teams are using AI safely and effectively.
Workforce AI Security acts as a smart filter that inspects user prompts in real-time before they leave a network. It identifies and automatically redacts sensitive information like PII, financial data, or intellectual property based on predefined and custom policies. This allows teams to get the answers they need from public AI models without the risk of exposing confidential enterprise data.
Workforce AI Security integrates directly with existing identity providers (e.g., Azure AD, Okta) to automatically sync all user and group information. Within the policy engine, administrators can then easily create rules that grant specific groups access to approved AI models and internal data sources. This ensures that every team has access to the exact tools they need, and nothing more.
Workforce AI Security provides visibility by analyzing a mirrored stream of network traffic. Because the analysis is done passively and out-of-band, it adds zero latency to the production network traffic. This agentless approach means there is no software to install or endpoints to manage, eliminating deployment friction and ensuring the solution is completely transparent to end-users and applications.
Visibility is the foundation of any effective security strategy. The real-time discovery and intent classification data from Workforce AI Security provides the essential context needed to power the entire F5 AI Security Platform. These insights are fed directly into F5 AI Red Team to automate security testing and into F5 AI Guardrails to enforce runtime protection, transforming passive visibility into a unified, proactive defense against AI threats.