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 enhanced cloud-native network functions and new observability capabilities for service providers moving critical services to Kubernetes.
BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition and the highlighted capabilities are available now. They cover traffic management, security and application and network visibility. Independent Tolly Group testing compared selected network functions with virtualized deployments in the same Kubernetes environment. The DNS test showed 1.9x more queries per second with 91.5% less CPU demand and 48% lower average latency. The CGNAT test showed comparable throughput with 79.7% less CPU demand, 98.5% less memory consumption and 82% lower p95 latency.
F5 (FFIV) has been named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape assessment of worldwide web application and API protection platforms.
The September 2026 assessment marks F5’s second recognition as a Leader, following the prior assessment in 2024. The assessment highlighted its AI-powered web application firewall, range of AI security tools, bot and agent defenses, and API security that operates without external connectivity. F5’s platform combines application firewall, API security, bot defense and distributed denial-of-service mitigation capabilities.
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.