F5 has announced the general availability of F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, two innovative solutions designed to protect mission-critical enterprise AI systems. With these launches, F5 becomes the only vendor offering a complete end-to-end lifecycle approach to AI runtime security, providing both out-of-the-box and customizable guardrails to safeguard AI agents.
These solutions respond directly to enterprise demands for flexible deployment, model-agnostic protection, and the ability to adapt AI security policies in real time. By leveraging F5’s deep expertise at the application layer where most AI interactions occur organizations can enforce consistent security controls across AI models, applications, and agents. Both solutions are already deployed at leading Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries, including highly regulated financial services and healthcare sectors.
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“Traditional enterprise governance cannot keep up with the velocity of AI,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “When policy lags adoption, you get data leaks and unpredictable model behavior. Organizations need defenses that are as dynamic as the models themselves. F5 AI Guardrails secures the traffic in real time, turning a black box into a transparent system, while F5 AI Red Team proactively finds vulnerabilities before they reach production. This allows organizations to stop fearing risk and start shipping apps and features with confidence.”
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption for customer experiences, internal workflows, and mission-critical decision-making, the attack landscape is evolving. Organizations face threats not only from external attackers but also from adversarial manipulation of models, sensitive data leakage, and unpredictable user interactions. By combining F5 AI Guardrails and AI Red Team with traditional infrastructure protections such as API security, web application firewalls, and DDoS defenses enterprises can secure AI systems alongside existing applications, achieving unified visibility and consistent policies without relying on fragmented point solutions.
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F5 AI Guardrails provides a model-agnostic runtime security layer that protects every AI model, application, and agent across all cloud and deployment environments. It enforces consistent defenses against adversarial threats such as prompt injection and jailbreak attacks, prevents sensitive data leakage, and ensures compliance with corporate and regulatory standards, including GDPR and the EU AI Act. Additionally, AI Guardrails offers deep observability and auditability of AI inputs and outputs, enabling teams to understand not just what the model did, but why a critical requirement for governance and compliance.
Complementing this, F5 AI Red Team delivers scalable, automated adversarial testing, simulating both common and obscure attack vectors. Powered by a continuously updated AI vulnerability database adding over 10,000 new techniques monthly, AI Red Team identifies where models may produce unsafe or unpredictable outputs. These insights feed directly into AI Guardrails policies, creating a continuous AI security feedback loop that enables proactive assurance, adaptive runtime protection, centralized governance, and ongoing improvement.
Together, F5 AI Guardrails and AI Red Team equip organizations to deploy AI systems confidently, transforming AI risk into manageable, actionable protection across enterprise environments.
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