Enterprise cybersecurity in a shifting threat landscape | F5

Automated attacks, API sprawl, fragmented controls, and looming quantum risk. The threat landscape keeps shifting, but the exposure gaps remain the same. F5 protects every app, API, and AI model with one consistent set of security controls, with distributed enforcement in the data path, everywhere you operate.
Attackers have industrialized. Automated tooling, now accelerated by AI, finds and weaponizes flaws faster than patch cycles can close them, and every new app, API, and integration adds another point to defend. Meanwhile, most organizations protect their hybrid multicloud estate with a patchwork of tools and policies, and the seams between them have quietly become the attack surface.
The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) delivers consistent enterprise cybersecurity enforcement across every application data path—on premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and in Kubernetes environments. By operating directly in the path of application traffic, F5 blocks exploits before they reach vulnerable code, virtually patches live applications while teams build permanent fixes, and enforces a single security policy for every app, API, and AI model, wherever it runs.
of organizations have faced at least one AI-related security or operational challenge1
of organizations operate across hybrid multicloud environments1
of organizations say agentic AI in production introduces new security challenges1
Every app and API is an entry point, including the ones you don't know you have. F5 converges WAF, continuous API discovery and protection, bot management, and DDoS mitigation into one line of defense that stops exploits, automated fraud, and business logic abuse, in any environment, including air-gapped.
AI adoption is outpacing governance, and shadow AI puts sensitive data in motion beyond your visibility. F5 secures AI apps, models, and agents at runtime by blocking prompt injection and data leakage, uncovering vulnerabilities before attackers do, and extending zero trust access to agents and MCP servers. Adoption doesn't have to mean exposure.
A single compromised credential shouldn't become a breach. F5 applies Zero Trust principles where attackers most often gain access: your applications and APIs. Identity- and context-aware access, granted per app and per user, contains east-west movement and shrinks the blast radius of any compromise, while full encrypted-traffic visibility eliminates blind spots.
"Harvest now, decrypt later" attacks are already underway, any data with a long shelf life is already at risk. F5 delivers crypto-agility without a forklift upgrade, enabling NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms across the data plane while preserving complete traffic visibility through the transition.
Every app and API is an entry point, including the ones you don't know you have. F5 converges WAF, continuous API discovery and protection, bot management, and DDoS mitigation into one line of defense that stops exploits, automated fraud, and business logic abuse, in any environment, including air-gapped.
AI adoption is outpacing governance, and shadow AI puts sensitive data in motion beyond your visibility. F5 secures AI apps, models, and agents at runtime by blocking prompt injection and data leakage, uncovering vulnerabilities before attackers do, and extending zero trust access to agents and MCP servers. Adoption doesn't have to mean exposure.
A single compromised credential shouldn't become a breach. F5 applies Zero Trust principles where attackers most often gain access: your applications and APIs. Identity- and context-aware access, granted per app and per user, contains east-west movement and shrinks the blast radius of any compromise, while full encrypted-traffic visibility eliminates blind spots.
"Harvest now, decrypt later" attacks are already underway, any data with a long shelf life is already at risk. F5 delivers crypto-agility without a forklift upgrade, enabling NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms across the data plane while preserving complete traffic visibility through the transition.
Different tools and policies for each environment create the gaps attackers exploit. F5 enforces a single, consistent security policy across hybrid multicloud.
F5 puts AI to work for the defender with an AI-powered WAF that risk-scores every request, automated virtual patching that shields live apps the moment a scan finds a flaw, and a platform continuously hardened by frontier AI models.
Every additional point product is another integration and another blind spot. By converging delivery and security, F5 lowers total cost of ownership and removes the seams between products.
In independenttesting, F5 WAAP with F5 AI Guardrails earned a 97.09% total security score, and F5 AI Guardrails achieved a 98.36% overall score across 20,000 adversarial test cases—including 99.3% effectiveness against prompt injection.
F5 works with leading security and technology vendors to close the gaps no single product can. Together, we address customers' hardest problems: protecting data wherever it moves, stopping threats before they spread, and securing modern workloads at runtime, so organizations can modernize with confidence.
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