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F5, Inc. provides application delivery, application security, performance, and automation technologies for enterprises, service providers, and government customers. Company news centers on the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, app and API protection, hybrid multicloud deployments, Kubernetes-native security, NGINX offerings, and AI application security for production workloads.
Recurring updates also include technology collaborations with cloud, data security, and open-source platform partners; threat research and security testing frameworks; quarterly earnings releases across products, systems, software, and services; investor events; and board governance changes.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced major enhancements to its F5 AI Gateway and its integration into the F5 AI Security Platform, creating a unified control point for AI tokenomics, governance, and security across models, agents, tools, and clouds as enterprise AI inference scales.
The gateway combines three core functions—Model Gateway for token attribution and cost optimization, MCP Gateway for agent-to-tool access control and auditing, and AI Guardrails for prompt/response inspection, data redaction, and jailbreak blocking. It centralizes budgets and policies, is designed to cut token spend by up to 60%, supports compliance with SOC 2, ISO, and HIPAA frameworks, and is deployable across SaaS, hybrid SaaS, and hybrid multicloud environments, with air-gapped support planned.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) reported that its Distributed Cloud Web App and API Protection (WAAP), part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, was placed in the Leader tier of SecureIQLab’s 2026 Cloud WAAP v5.0 CyberRisk Validation Comparative Report.
SecureIQLab scored F5 at 92.7% Security Efficacy and 94.7% Operational Efficiency, above group averages of 86.8% and 93.8%. F5 was also one of a limited number of vendors to earn both Secure-by-Design and Secure-by-Default certifications, requiring scores above 85% in each category and 100% on the WAAP vulnerability assessment.
Testing covered more than 1,600 attack scenarios across web applications, APIs, bots, AI-assisted bots, and DDoS, with benign traffic to measure false positives. F5 also scored 100% on the OWASP LLM Top 10 subset in scope and above the group average on compliance-related criteria.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) introduced F5 AI Guardrails integrated with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, an AI-native solution designed to centralize security and governance for enterprise AI applications in production. The integration inspects prompts and LLM responses in real time to help prevent prompt injection, PII exposure, data leakage, and harmful outputs.
According to F5, security policies are enforced centrally across AI applications and models without modifying application code, enabling a layered, independent architecture where NVIDIA’s framework and F5’s security can be updated or scaled separately. The solution is generally available and aims to support AI deployments across hybrid multicloud environments.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) reported third quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $865 million, up 11% year over year from $780 million, with CEO François Locoh-Donou highlighting 19% product revenue growth and eight consecutive quarters of double‑digit product growth.
Systems revenue was $240 million (+32%), software revenue $223 million (+7%), and services revenue $402 million (+3%). GAAP gross profit was $712 million (82.2% margin) versus $632 million (81.0%), while non‑GAAP gross profit was $728 million (84.2% margin) versus $649 million (83.1%). GAAP operating income was $213 million (24.7% margin) and non‑GAAP operating income $303 million (35.0% margin).
GAAP net income was $208 million, or $3.62 per diluted share, compared with $190 million, or $3.25. Non‑GAAP net income was $272 million, or $4.73 per share, up from $243 million, or $4.16.
According to F5, full‑year 2026 guidance was raised to 9%–10% revenue growth (from 7%–8%) and non‑GAAP EPS of $17.21–$17.33 (from $16.25–$16.55). Fourth quarter 2026 revenue is guided to $870–$890 million with non‑GAAP EPS of $4.14–$4.26. Cash and cash equivalents rose to $1.61 billion, and total assets reached $6.83 billion, with deferred revenue increasing on both current and long‑term balances.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced new fleet management capabilities for F5 Insight for ADSP, designed to help enterprises reduce risk exposure across BIG-IP environments as frontier AI accelerates vulnerability response timelines. The release centers on new workflows that provide fleet-wide visibility, guided update management, enterprise-grade authentication, role-based access controls, and a tamper-evident AI audit trail, helping teams move from identifying risk to executing accountable updates at scale.
F5 Insight for ADSP v1.2 introduces software lifecycle visibility across BIG-IP devices, standardized TMOS update workflows, pre-execution readiness checks aligned to HA architectures, and update status tracking. Governance features include LDAP/SAML SSO integration, least-privilege role-based access, and 30-day tamper-evident logging of AI assistant interactions. F5 Insight remains available as self-managed software, with a SaaS model planned.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) appointed Cathy Peterman as Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, joining the executive leadership team and reporting to CEO François Locoh-Donou. She will lead F5’s global people strategy. Peterman previously held senior HR roles at Wayfair and Amazon and is based in Seattle.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) will report its Q3 fiscal 2026 financial results on Monday, July 27, 2026, after market close.
A live investor webcast starts at 4:30 p.m. ET, with online and phone access plus limited-time replay options via F5’s investor relations site.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) appointed Gavin Munroe to its board of directors, effective June 17, 2026. He will serve on the Audit and Risk committees.
Munroe brings over 25 years of technology leadership in global financial services, expanding F5’s board to 10 members, including 9 independent directors.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) launched the F5 AI Security Platform and acquired SurePath AI, a network-based AI discovery specialist. The platform targets shadow AI, governance, testing, and runtime protection across models, agents, and APIs, supporting on‑premises, air‑gapped, private, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced a collaboration with Equinix to deliver secure, governed AI across hybrid and multicloud environments by combining F5 AI Guardrails with the Equinix Distributed AI Hub.
The joint solution creates a policy-enforced AI control plane, adding AI‑native security, centralized governance, and audit-ready oversight across models, agents, data sources, and clouds via Equinix’s 280+ data centers and global ecosystem.