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F5, Friday, February 20th, 2026
While a majority of organizations (96%) are deploying AI models, most worry about AI model security, according to the latest F5 State of Application Strategy report. And rightly so because many traditional security tools do not adequately support or protect modern AI workloads.
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F5, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
AI security teams are being asked to answer a new class of questions, often after something has already gone wrong. Why did an AI system allow this response? What policy was applied? Was sensitive data exposed? And can we prove it didn't happen elsewhere?
more → F5, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Securing the AI data pipeline is not optional. That much is clear. What is far less obvious-and far more challenging-is how to secure it well.
more → F5, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
As organizations scale AI initiatives from experimentation to production, one reality is becoming clear: AI success depends as much on data delivery as it does on models.
more → F5, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Every major shift in application architecture forces the network to adapt. This is not a new or even revolutionary idea. We've seen it before, repeatedly. And each time, the same pattern played out.
more → F5, Friday, February 13th, 2026
When it comes to broken object-level authorization (BOLA)-one of the OWASP API Security Top 10 vulnerabilities-shifting left is an incomplete strategy. BOLA is not a simple coding error, such as a typo; it is a fundamental failure in business logic.
more → F5, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
In the rapid race toward digital transformation, many organizations have inadvertently constructed a "patchwork architecture." To meet the urgent demands of cloud migration and remote access, IT teams have historically reached for the nearest tool to solve the problem of the day, leading to an environment where infrastructure is a collection of specialized, disconnected modules.
more → F5, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
The main challenge with deploying AI is that its primary ingredients-data, AI models, and infrastructure-are often distributed across several environments. Enterprise data accumulates all over the place, from edge devices and locations to the data center core, while processing power including GPUs and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are mostly found in the cloud.
more → F5, Monday, February 9th, 2026
In the modern enterprise, the "application" has transcended its role as a mere tool to become the business itself. From high-frequency trading platforms to global supply chain engines, apps provide mission-critical services that serve as the primary touchpoints for both revenue and reputation.
more → F5, Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Applications are at the core of business. They power customer experiences, employee productivity, and revenue-generating digital services. At the same time, the architectures for delivering these applications often have not kept pace with how applications are built, deployed, and consumed today.
more → F5, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Not all AI guardrails work the same way. That difference is becoming harder to ignore. As organizations add enforcement at inference, meaning the moment a model processes a prompt and generates a response, two approaches are often conflated.
more → F5, Monday, January 26th, 2026
Modern applications are evolving quickly. AI-powered components embedded directly into the user experience complicate what used to be a predictable flow of web and API traffic.
more → F5, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
In the 2023 movie M3GAN, a brilliant piece of artificial intelligence is brought to market with extraordinary speed and almost no meaningful ethical boundaries. Designed to learn, adapt, and protect, the system is optimized for performance and commercial success-not accountability. The result, of course, is catastrophic.
more → F5, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Most organizations don't struggle with AI because they lack models; models are proliferating in both number and type. They struggle because their infrastructure was never designed for the way AI moves data.
more → F5, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
AI infrastructure teams are making one of the largest technology investments in their organization's history. Some already have GPU clusters in production. Others are still preparing to bring them online. In both cases, the challenge is the same. Once AI infrastructure is deployed, instability, inefficiency, and poor traffic control quickly translate into lost value and operational risk.
more → F5, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Fueled by modern application architectures and AI solutions, today's digital businesses are faced with constantly expanding API connectivity. Organizations likely interact with hundreds of APIs daily-and more are being added all the time.
more → F5, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
In the age of AI, your data doesn't just sit. It replicates, migrates, gets mined, retrained, and served up across more zones, clouds, and services than your architecture ever planned for. And if you're still thinking of multicloud networking as 'pick a primary and fail over,' you're already behind.
more → F5, Friday, January 9th, 2026
In the late 1960s, the rock classic, 'The Weight' by The Band ('Take a load off Fanny .') told a simple story about burden: how responsibility gets passed along until someone quietly carries more than they should.
more → F5, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) has fundamentally transformed business, moving from a futuristic concept to an everyday necessity. Foundational models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude have led this charge, enabling automation and streamlined decision-making with very few barriers to entry.
more → F5, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Agentic AI today is roughly where generative AI was a year ago. Most organizations with agentic projects are still in the pilot phase, but some early workloads are already beginning to interact with production systems.
more → F5, Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025
According to a recent Datos Insights survey, 57% of financial services firms reported API‑related breaches in the last two years.
more → F5, Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
Quantum computing is on the horizon, and it's set to upend the cryptographic systems that protect our data, communications, and infrastructure. The time to start preparing is now. In this six-part blog series on post-quantum cryptography (PQC), cryptography thought leaders from across F5 will explain what's at risk, what opportunities lie ahead, and what steps your organization can take today to stay secure in a post-quantum world. The future is closer than you think. Let's get ready together.
more → F5, December 12,2025
The technology industry is racing toward an AI‑driven future. AI adoption is accelerating, and AI is becoming a platform-based capability across the stack. Hybrid IT is here to stay, and multi-tenant architectures have become the norm. In this reality, SaaS now carries the weight of customer experience, compliance, and innovation.
more → F5, December 11,2025
As AI usage accelerates, data pipelines must scale even faster to prevent bottlenecks and maintain performance. Recent research from firms such as McKinsey & Company shows that the appetite for AI-ready data center capacity is expected to grow by approximately 33% per year through 2030. This means that even the best model architectures will be starved of data unless the delivery pipeline scales accordingly.
more → F5, December 10,2025
Updates bring deeper API insights, stronger security, and more seamless network connectivity to the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform
more → F5, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with new NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs to enhance scalability, security, and performance for next-generation AI workloads
more → F5, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
AI is entering an era where inference performance and security define success in delivering on customer expectations. In the evolving era of the token economy, AI infrastructure is no longer just about raw compute.
more → F5, Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
Last week, we disclosed a major security incident involving a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor. As a CISO, I know what it is like to hear this kind of news from a partner. I understand how difficult and disruptive this has been for customers, and we truly apologize for-and take full ownership of-the incident.
more → F5, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Okay, kids, full stop right now. I'm hearing terms like 'tokens' and 'models' thrown around like Gen Z slang on a TikTok video, and most of the time it's completely wrong.
more → F5, Monday, October 6th, 2025
According to the F5 2025 State of Application Strategy Report, 96% of organizations are currently deploying AI models. Among them, IT leaders cite model security and compute costs as top concerns.
more → F5, September 30,2025
In the third episode of the F5 Global CISO: For defenders by defenders, I was joined by Corey Ball, one of my favorite API hackers. Corey's been active in IT and cyber security for the past 15 years, and literally wrote the book on hacking APIs when he found that there really wasn't much in the way of collected knowledge on the topic, and this is when we first met.
more → F5, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
For a majority of organizations, Kubernetes is the platform of choice for deploying and managing containerized workloads. But AI workloads introduce new levels of complexity compared to typical microservices, which are more consistent and predictable.
more → F5, September 17,2025
How F5 and Equinix are rewriting the playbook for secure partner connectivity.
more → F5, Friday, September 12th, 2025
Budgets are tightening for higher education institutions in many parts of the globe, creating significant operational, educational, and financial pressures.
more → F5, Thursday, September 11th, 2025
With new technology, it's easy to get excited. Everyone remembers the feeling of their first large language model (LLM) prompt, their first time using a web browser, this crazy idea that your data is living in a 'cloud.'
more → F5, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Most of today's enterprise security tooling is built on a very specific set of assumptions. That's not a bad thing, as those assumptions have been tested and validated a thousand times in the past twenty years.
more → F5, Thursday, August 28th, 2025
I'm thrilled to introduce my new podcast series, The Global CISO: For defenders by defenders. I've been a CISO for over 20 years and now am Field CISO at F5. Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition cost can be high.
more → F5, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Some folks seem to be conflating LLMs with AI agents. Let's just put that to bed, shall we? While certainly some are 'extending' chatbots to execute tools and call them AI agents, that's an immature approach if you want to harness agents for advanced automation.
more → F5, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
As more and more organizations pursue AI, they increasingly rely on APIs to connect AI models to applications and data for training and inference. However, the more API connections, the higher the risk. Threat actors can abuse APIs to exfiltrate data, jailbreak AI models, and even steal the models themselves.
more → F5, Monday, August 18th, 2025
If you've followed anything I've written in the past, oh, nearly 20 years, you already know that application architecture has profound impacts on application delivery. I
more → F5, Friday, August 15th, 2025
In today's digital economy, not all threats are obvious. Some arrive cloaked in legitimacy-automated scripts that mimic users, bots that follow business logic, and AI agents that blend seamlessly into normal traffic patterns.
more → F5, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
AI agents are here, and they aren't just calling APIs or pushing content. They're thinking. They're deciding. They're planning and delegating. And they're doing it across your infrastructure, your services, and your traffic management stack...
more → F5, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
You're investing heavily in AI models, training and tuning them for precise outcomes. But there's a critical bottleneck standing between you and optimal results: data ingestion.
more → F5, Friday, August 8th, 2025
As IT teams grapple with the demands of operating enterprise applications, administrators responsible for F5 BIG-IP environments must strike a balance between customizability, speed, and scalability. That's why many admins default to GUI-based workflows, because of the ease of use and flexibility of 'click ops.'
more → F5, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
In today's digitally driven world, data is the lifeblood of the healthcare, finance, and government sectors. For organizations in these sectors, ensuring that sensitive data is securely managed and properly monitored is not just a business priority-it's a legal requirement.
more → F5, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
It is easy to feel like your business is falling behind the adoption curve of agentic AI. The hype is as relentless as it is convincing, but there is no need to rush when the enterprise requirements for a given technology are not yet mature.
more → F5, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
As we've covered in the first blog posts in this series, quantum computing capable of breaking today's standard encryption-so-called "Q-Day"-remains a question of when, not if.
more → F5, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Artificial intelligence is potentially life-changing-and already has been in profound ways. From accelerating breakthroughs in medicine and education to reshaping work and everyday life, AI is transforming how we live and operate.
more → F5, Thursday, July 31st, 2025
magine handing someone the keys to your car and asking them to pick up groceries. If the store is close and your list is simple, there's little room for error. But as the task grows more complex, like specific brands, dietary restrictions, and a tight budget, the complexity increases. The consequences of this seemingly mundane task going wrong could range from unauthorized purchases all the way to totaling the vehicle.
more → F5, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
In the evolving world of application delivery, organizations are investing heavily in modern infrastructure, applications, and intelligent automation. Yet despite this investment, many still struggle with issues that should have been solved by now: systems that fail under pressure, deployment policies that don't hold across environments, and workflows that grind to a halt when speed is most needed.
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