About F5
F5 sells the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), which F5 describes as keeping applications and APIs fast, available, and secure across complex environments.[1][6]
F5 says its security offering covers sensitive data, apps, and APIs on a single platform. F5 offers ADSP through term subscriptions, the Flex Consumption Plan (FCP), and perpetual licensing. F5 says it can safeguard sensitive data from quantum risks with NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography. F5 says it hardens its own code with frontier AI models and blocks zero-day and emerging AI-driven threats at runtime.
F5 sells management and automation solutions for BIG-IP and NGINX that provide central management, observability, and automation. F5 says its ADSP management and automation solutions offer end-to-end visibility, intuitive management workflows, and intelligent automation. F5 services for application delivery and security can be managed and provisioned with Ansible and Terraform.[8]
F5 Insight for ADSP enables ops teams to focus efforts where they are most needed, find answers more quickly, optimize deployments, and execute updates faster. F5 Insight uses open-source tools including custom OpenTelemetry resources, VictoriaMetrics database, and a Grafana instance. Users can ask questions about virtual server status, iRule resource use, or security configurations in plain conversational English. Teams can identify expiring certificates, inventory cryptographic assets, and track PQC readiness. Guided workflows distribute and install software patches, updates, and upgrades across an entire fleet in parallel. F5 says this observability and fleet management can be deployed in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others, and in on-prem or fully air-gapped environments.[9]
F5 inspects traffic for bots, aggregators, and other anomalies using behavioral, network, and environmental client-side signals. F5 says it distinguishes trusted humans, bots, and agents from malicious activity through real-time behavioral analysis. F5 BIG-IP provides a native module for routing traffic to Bot Defense. Bot Defense can be deployed as SaaS in front of apps, and traffic from Distributed Cloud can be directed to Bot Defense. F5 offers real-time detection that stops malicious bots and AI agents and protects apps, APIs, and user experiences.[6]
The F5 AI Security Platform helps teams operationalize AI governance with customizable policy enforcement and auditability for every model, user, and agent action. F5 applies a continuous loop of testing and runtime protection to deployed AI systems. F5 discovers, classifies, and governs workforce AI usage across users, agents, and third-party services. F5 monitors shadow AI usage, sanctioned AI tools, and MCP servers across enterprise workflows. F5 says AI security can operate in fully isolated environments with no external connectivity.[10]
F5 says multicloud networking from F5 helps scale and automate networks so that applications are fast and reliable. F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect securely connects applications, clusters, and services across any cloud provider, on-premises data center, or remote site, giving DevOps teams network observability and control. F5 Distributed Cloud organizes network, traffic optimization, and security services in a single console. F5 Distributed Cloud Services support service discovery and service mesh integrations including Consul, Kubernetes, DNS, Istio, and Linkerd. Synthetic Monitoring from F5 Distributed Cloud sources data from global regions for analytics and insights.[11][12][13]
BIG-IP Container Ingress Services (CIS) lets users manage an F5 BIG-IP device from Kubernetes or OpenShift using either environment's native CLI/API. F5 IngressLink combines BIG-IP, Container Ingress Services (CIS), and NGINX Ingress Controller to deliver unified app services for modern applications in Kubernetes environments. BIG-IP Diameter Traffic Management enables service providers to manage network complexity with context-aware routing, secure roaming, and integration of Diameter and legacy elements. The F5 Diameter Firewall is compliant with GSMA-FS-19 Diameter Security requirements.[14][15]
A medical organization deployed F5 Workforce AI Security to bring ungoverned AI use under protection and oversight and to secure sensitive patient data. A European asset manager deployed F5 solutions for S3 data delivery for AI model training. A national public safety technology agency uses F5 BIG-IP r4600 appliances in front of its storage to secure and load balance its ingestion path.[1][8][10][11][13][14][15][16]
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