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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 (FFIV) announced a strategic partnership with Omnissa to deliver secure, high-performance digital workspaces and virtual desktop infrastructure for enterprises.
The collaboration integrates F5 BIG-IP solution suites with Omnissa Horizon and Omnissa Access to consolidate DMZ architectures, support Zero Trust access, and automate multi-site failover for hybrid and multicloud environments. BIG-IP ZTA acts as a unified VDI and application proxy, BIG-IP LTM provides intelligent traffic distribution, and BIG-IP DNS enables global traffic steering for Horizon deployments. Channel partners such as Presidio offer architecture, deployment, and professional services, with joint solutions showcased at events including Presidio TechX and Omnissa ONE.
F5 (FFIV) has enhanced its Distributed Cloud Bot Defense with new device intelligence features and specialized agentic AI protections to counter automated account abuse.
The update introduces multi-signal risk decisioning that correlates behavioral, device, and client-integrity telemetry across interactions, aiming to distinguish trusted AI agents and human users from malicious bots. Key additions include persistent device identification, real-time device risk scoring, risk-based workflow enforcement, and an agent-aware policy framework unified on the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform.
F5 (FFIV) plans to launch F5 Workforce AI Security, an agentless addition to its AI Security Platform that gives enterprises visibility and policy control over workforce AI use and actions taken by AI agents on employees’ behalf.
The product is designed to discover AI services in use, attribute AI activity to users and agents, analyze identity and intent, and control or modify tool calls before execution. It enforces network-based policies across browsers, CLIs, coding agents, MCP clients, and self-built tools without requiring an additional endpoint client. General availability is scheduled to begin in October 2026.
F5 (FFIV) announced a technology integration with MuleSoft’s Agent Fabric that embeds the F5 AI Security Platform, including AI Guardrails, directly into agentic AI workflows. The integration routes LLM traffic through F5 AI Guardrails via Agent Fabric’s Omni Gateway to provide centralized policies, inline inspection of prompts and responses, and enhanced audit telemetry.
The solution is designed to mitigate threats such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, toxicity, and sensitive data exposure, while supporting data residency through self-hosted deployments. F5 AI Guardrails for Agent Fabric is now generally available and will be showcased at Dreamforce 2026.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced its participation in the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference 2026. The company’s presentation will be webcast live on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 1:10 p.m. ET, with live and archived access available via the Investor Relations section of f5.com.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced new AI-driven capabilities in its web application firewall (WAF) and runtime security to accelerate virtual patching against frontier AI-enabled threats. The enhancements, available on F5 Distributed Cloud as part of the Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), focus on blocking active exploits within minutes.
New features include anomaly detection, agentic threat intelligence leveraging technology from the Fletch acquisition, and automated virtual patching via F5 Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning for both Distributed Cloud and BIG-IP environments. In internal testing, F5 reports 98% threat detection efficacy with 1% false positives, enabling confident enforcement while developers implement permanent fixes.
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.