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F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is a technology company that describes itself as a global leader in delivering and securing applications and APIs across on-premises, cloud, edge, and hybrid multicloud environments. The F5 news stream highlights how the company evolves its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), BIG-IP, NGINX-based services, and Distributed Cloud Services to address modern application, API, and AI requirements.
Recent news releases feature product launches such as BIG-IP v21.0, which F5 characterizes as its most secure BIG-IP release, built to support AI data delivery and S3 data workflows, and F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud, a fully managed, cloud-native application delivery-as-a-service solution developed with Google Cloud. Other announcements cover AI-focused offerings like F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, which the company positions as runtime protection and adversarial testing capabilities for enterprise AI systems.
F5’s news also includes updates on its Distributed Cloud Services for API discovery, threat detection, and bot defense, as well as strategic collaborations with companies such as NetApp and CrowdStrike. These items describe joint efforts to enhance AI data delivery, support post-quantum cryptography scenarios, and embed CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor and OverWatch Threat Hunting into F5 BIG-IP. Investors and technology professionals can also find notices about upcoming earnings releases and participation in financial conferences.
By following FFIV news, readers can monitor how F5 develops its platform strategy, responds to cybersecurity challenges, and expands its partner ecosystem around application delivery, security, and AI-related capabilities. This page aggregates company-issued press releases and related updates for ongoing insight into F5’s activities.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced new security capabilities within the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) on March 11, 2026, delivering AI-driven protections, unified zero trust access, and crypto-agile post-quantum readiness for hybrid multicloud and edge environments.
Key additions include F5 AI Remediate, AI-powered risk scoring in Distributed Cloud WAF, enhanced Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, BIG-IP Zero Trust Access, expanded API discovery options, and NIST-compliant PQC cipher support to help enterprises speed mitigation and prepare for quantum threats.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) unveiled major enhancements to its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) at AppWorld, including F5 Insight for ADSP for unified observability, agentic AI workload support, and future-ready cryptography. BIG-IP v21.1 adds post-quantum cipher support, AI workload protections, and a declarative API, targeted for general availability in Q2 2026. NGINX now offers MCP-powered agentic observability (open source GA), and Distributed Cloud Services are repackaged into simpler Essentials and Enterprise SaaS starter bundles to simplify deployments and reduce SKU complexity.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced certified Red Hat OpenShift Operators for F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team plus AI quickstarts to speed secure, on-premises AI deployments. The integrations use Kubernetes-native workflows and are available now via the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog and Red Hat AI quickstart catalog.
F5 says these certified operators and quickstarts reduce operational complexity, accelerate time-to-production, and embed consistent security and governance for enterprise AI workloads on Red Hat OpenShift.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced enhanced support for World Wide Technology’s AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR), a vendor-agnostic AI security framework co-developed with NVIDIA. The integration aligns ARMOR domains with F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) capabilities to secure hybrid AI deployments across multicloud environments.
The collaboration emphasizes AI-powered threat detection, model protection, secure SDLC practices, data and infrastructure protection, and post-quantum cryptography readiness to reduce AI attack surface and improve operational resilience.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) launched the F5 Labs AI Leaderboards—Comprehensive AI Security Index (CASI) and Agentic Resistance Score (ARS)—to benchmark AI model security. Leaderboards update monthly, use over one year of attack data, and incorporate >10,000 new attack prompts per month following F5’s acquisition of CalypsoAI.
The tools pair real-time threat intelligence, F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team testing to help enterprises evaluate and compare model risk before production.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) will present at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 1:45 p.m. ET. The presentation will be webcast live and an archived replay will be available on F5's Investor Relations Events & Presentations page.
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F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) reported Q1 FY2026 results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 with $822 million revenue, up 7% YoY, driven by 11% product revenue growth including 37% systems growth. GAAP net income was $180M or $3.10 per diluted share; non-GAAP net income was $259M or $4.45 per diluted share. GAAP gross margin was 81.5% and non-GAAP gross margin was 83.8%. The company raised FY2026 revenue guidance to +5% to +6% and raised non-GAAP EPS guidance to $15.65–$16.05.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced general availability of F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, an integrated runtime security suite for enterprise AI. The offerings claim model‑agnostic, real‑time protection across clouds, continuous observability of AI inputs/outputs, and automated adversarial testing that adds over 10,000 new attack techniques each month. F5 says the solutions are deployed at leading Fortune 500 customers, support compliance needs including GDPR and the EU AI Act, and integrate with existing API, WAF, and DDoS protections to create a continuous security feedback loop. Both products are available now as part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) launched F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud, a fully managed, cloud-native application delivery-as-a-service available in Google Cloud Marketplace. The solution unifies Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing, security, and observability to simplify operations, optimize workload distribution, and support CI/CD workflows. It offers deep programmability via the NGINX JavaScript (njs) module, native Google Cloud observability integrations, over 200 real-time metrics, and security controls including SSL/TLS passthrough, mTLS, JWT, OIDC, RBAC, rate limiting, and circuit breaking.
The collaboration targets AI-enabled, containerized apps and aims to reduce tool sprawl, improve performance during traffic spikes, and enable non-disruptive reconfigurations and advanced deployment strategies.