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The F5 AI Security Platform: Eliminating the guesswork from AI security
F5 introduces the F5 AI Security Platform, delivering continuous protection for enterprise AI.
By Kunal Anand
Securing our code with frontier AI: What F5 built and learned
F5 is using frontier AI models to change how we find and fix vulnerabilities in our own code.
By Kunal Anand
F5 wins seven 2026 TrustRadius Top Rated Awards
F5 is recognized for industry-leading solutions with consistent high ratings from customers.
By Nirav ShahAll Blog Posts(1949)
A faster release cadence: What's changing at F5, and what you need to do
Read on to learn how F5 is accelerating its software release and security notification cadence and what you can do to prepare.
By Kunal Anand
AI App Delivery Top 10: Unoptimized traffic steering
AI breaks traditional traffic steering assumptions: backends aren’t interchangeable, costs vary, and agents fan out unpredictably—so routing must account for model, GPU health, and data locality.
By Lori Mac Vittie
15 years, one lesson: Growth comes from reinventing yourself
As F5 celebrates 30 years, F5er Jack Wang reflects on 15 years of growth, mentorship, innovation, and the culture that inspired him to stay.
By F5 Newsroom Staff
Securing the new control points in the AI journey
AI architecture is fundamentally different than traditional IT environments and requires a different security strategy to protect critical AI workloads.
By Kunal Anand
Why the recent U.S. Executive Order 14412 demands PQC readiness
Learn why a new U.S. executive order designed to secure the nation from cryptographic attacks requires immediate action—and how you can start to prepare.
By Rachael Shah
F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes 2.3.0: Enhanced AI optimization for production AI
F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes 2.3.0 reflects a shift in how organizations need to operate AI infrastructure as they move from AI experimentation into production.
By Scott Calvet
Ensure your VDI is ready for modern demands with F5 and Omnissa
Find out how F5 and Omnissa are working together to ensure the seamless, reliable access that today’s hybrid work model requires.
By Yuichi Miyazaki
Data sovereignty: New pressures force organizations to rethink risk
The question is no longer just about where data and applications reside. It’s about who controls them, who can access them, and whether organizations can maintain operational flexibility.
By Bart Salaets
Your next SRE might be a machine
Control is concentrating at the point of intent: prompts, tokens, and routing. The architecture challenge is defining where AI can act, when it must defer, and how to reverse.
By Lori Mac Vittie
AI App Delivery Top 10: Insufficient Traffic Controls
Traditional rate limits and throttles miss the real blast radius. AI workloads fan out across models, vector stores, and services, driving latency spikes, cascading failures, and retries.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Leading healthcare provider improves visibility and security with F5 ADSP
By expanding its F5 ADSP investment, a large U.S. healthcare organization obtained a more resilient, observable, and secure foundation for delivering mission-critical digital services.
By Zach WestallF5 wins seven 2026 TrustRadius Top Rated Awards
F5 is recognized for industry-leading solutions with consistent high ratings from customers.
By Nirav Shah
Securing Private AI: Convenience or control?
Learn how the newly introduced F5 AI Security Platform approaches privacy for AI security.
By Mark Toler, John WyssThe F5 AI Security Platform: Eliminating the guesswork from AI security
F5 introduces the F5 AI Security Platform, delivering continuous protection for enterprise AI.
By Kunal Anand
Standardize AI delivery with F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric
How F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric helps enterprises standardize Kubernetes traffic, secure apps, and prepare for AI inference at scale.
By Karthik Krishnaswamy
Building F5 BIG-IP to speak S3-compatible storage
F5 brings native S3 commands and events to BIG-IP iRules, letting storage and security teams easily configure, manage, and enforce S3 policies.
By Tanu Mutreja, Hunter Smit
AI App Delivery Top 10: Incomplete observability
AI won’t scale by itself. Without a unified control plane that collapses tooling and ownership boundaries, inference becomes the most brittle and coordination-heavy tier.
By Lori Mac Vittie
How F5 and Equinix help secure and govern distributed AI
As AI agents multiply across hybrid multicloud environments, F5 AI Guardrails and Equinix Distributed AI Hub give enterprises the security and governance to scale with confidence.
By Joe Kanagusuku
Your AI Is running in AWS. Now your security can too.
Your AI is running in AWS. Is your security keeping up? F5 AI Guardrails and AI Red Team are now available in AWS Marketplace.
By Ian Lauth
Turning World Cup excitement into lasting community impact
F5 is investing in partnerships designed to create meaningful, lasting community impact that outlasts the six World Cup events Seattle is hosting.
By Angelique Okeke
What customers are telling us about AI, hybrid multicloud, and application security
F5’s new Senior VP of Product Marketing explains the AI pressures enterprise leaders are facing and what they need to bolster their organizations.
By Nirav Shah
The secret to scaling AI is overcoming Conway’s Law
AI won’t scale by itself. Without a unified control plane that collapses tooling and ownership boundaries, inference becomes the most brittle and coordination-heavy tier.
By Lori Mac Vittie
AI App Delivery Top 10: Lack of fault tolerance and resiliency
AI makes classic resiliency gaps far more costly: single GPU or dependency failures cascade through synchronous inference chains, compounding latency and degrading outputs.
By Lori Mac Vittie
How CISOs can measure AI security risk
Learn how CASI, ARS, and F5 Labs threat intelligence help CISOs measure AI security risk across the full AI lifecycle.
By Lee Ennis, Louise Scully
API security risks persist across all environments, even when air-gapped
Internal APIs often have reduced governance and visibility, creating vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit even if air-gapped or protected on-premises.
By Ian Dinno
Why risk scoring matters in the age of AI–driven vulnerability hunting
Learn how AI-powered WAF solutions can assign a single, intuitive score to quantify threat severity, transforming how application security decisions are made.
By Jay Kelley, Debrup Ghosh
Virtual patching in practice with F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF and F5 Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning
Virtual patching reduces risk when a patch isn’t immediately available for a vulnerability, providing an organization security and time to create, test, and deploy a patch.
By Jay Kelley, Ian DinnoSecuring our code with frontier AI: What F5 built and learned
F5 is using frontier AI models to change how we find and fix vulnerabilities in our own code.
By Kunal Anand
AI App Delivery Top 10: Weak DNS practices
For inference and agentic systems, DNS resilience is critical to availability and performance—bad resolution means misrouting, latency spikes, and service blackouts across regions.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Kubernetes-native WAF for the gateway era: F5 WAF for NGINX now integrates with F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric
F5 extends WAFs to deliver consistent, scalable protection across clusters and environments with F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric and F5 NGINX Ingress Controller.
By Aviv Dahan