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F5 launches enterprise AI security runtime protection by unveiling two new solutions F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team designed to provide real-time, model-agnostic runtime security for AI models, applications and agents across cloud and hybrid environments. These offerings help enterprises defend against adversarial threats such as prompt injection, jailbreak attacks, data leakage and regulatory non-compliance as AI adoption scales.
Seattle-based F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced the general availability of these capabilities on January 14, 2026, positioning the company as one of the first vendors to deliver comprehensive runtime protection that spans the full AI lifecycle from development and deployment to ongoing production operations.
Real-Time Runtime Protection for AI Systems
F5 AI Guardrails introduces a runtime policy enforcement layer that applies consistent protections across AI models and applications, regardless of where they are deployed. This model-agnostic approach seamlessly secures AI interactions by monitoring live inputs and outputs, preventing sensitive data leakage and mitigating threats before they impact operations. The solution also provides in-depth observability and auditability, a core requirement for governance and compliance in highly regulated industries.Complementing Guardrails, F5 AI Red Team delivers automated adversarial testing that simulates a wide range of attack vectors using an evolving AI vulnerability database. By feeding insights back into Guardrails policies, it enables adaptive defenses that evolve in step with the threat landscape.
Enterprise-Driven Security and Compliance
With AI adoption rapidly across business units, organizations face a growing attack surface that extends beyond traditional applications and networks. F5's runtime protection solutions are designed to address emerging risks inherent to AI-powered systems including misuse, unauthorized model manipulation, and unpredictable agent behaviors while enforcing regulatory requirements such as GDPR and other data protection frameworks.According to F5 leadership, embedding real-time security controls directly into runtime environments allows enterprises to innovate with AI confidently, ensuring protections are as dynamic and adaptive as the models they protect.
Why This Matters for Enterprise AI
As organizations scale AI deployments across mission-critical workflows, runtime protection has become essential not just for performance and uptime but for comprehensive security and risk management. F5's new runtime security offerings help reduce fragmented toolchains and simplify defenses by integrating AI-centric controls into existing application delivery and security platforms, giving security teams unified visibility and consistent enforcement points across distributed environments.By delivering both protective guardrails and ongoing adversarial testing, F5 is helping businesses move from reactive vulnerability patching to proactive AI risk management transforming runtime security from an afterthought into a foundational capability for the enterprise AI era.
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