F5 has announced the general availability of F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, two new security offerings designed to protect enterprise AI systems as organisations scale adoption across critical operations. With the launch, F5 positions itself as the only vendor offering end-to-end AI runtime security across the full lifecycle, including the ability to connect and protect AI agents using both pre-built and custom guardrails.

The solutions are built to meet enterprise demands for flexible deployment, model-agnostic protection and real-time policy adaptation. Drawing on F5’s long-standing expertise at the application layer—where AI interactions take place—AI Guardrails and AI Red Team are already in use at Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including in heavily regulated sectors such as financial services and healthcare.

“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 AI becomes embedded across customer experiences, internal workflows and mission-critical decision making, organisations face an expanding and increasingly complex risk landscape. Threats now extend beyond traditional attackers to include adversarial model manipulation, sensitive data exposure, unpredictable outputs and tightening compliance requirements. F5 says its new offerings integrate with existing protections such as API security, web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation, allowing enterprises to secure AI systems alongside conventional applications without relying on fragmented point solutions.

F5 AI Guardrails provides a model-agnostic runtime security layer that applies consistent policies across models, applications and agents in any cloud or deployment environment. It protects against threats such as prompt injection and jailbreak attacks, prevents data leakage and supports compliance with regulations including GDPR and the EU AI Act. The platform also delivers detailed observability and auditability of AI inputs and outputs, supporting governance needs in regulated industries.

Complementing this, F5 AI Red Team offers automated adversarial testing powered by a vulnerability database that adds more than 10,000 new attack techniques each month. Insights from testing feed directly into AI Guardrails, creating a continuous security feedback loop as models and threats evolve.