FFIV News & Events

F5 and Forcepoint announced a new alliance to help enterprises secure AI across its lifecycle. Forcepoint's AI-native Data Security Posture Management data discovery and classification capabilities combine with F5's red teaming and AI guardrails functionality in the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform. This approach provides runtime protections for AI applications, APIs, models, and agents to help organizations operationalize AI safely while maintaining control and visibility over sensitive enterprise data.

F5 and Skyfire announced a technology partnership designed to enable enterprises to securely allow verified AI agents while still blocking malicious actors. The planned integration brings Skyfire's open know your agent protocol to the F5 application delivery and security platform, intended to enable merchants and content providers to distinguish legitimate, revenue-generating AI agent traffic from malicious automation.

F5 (FFIV) announced expanded capabilities in its ongoing collaboration with Nvidia (NVDA) to accelerate and optimize AI inference infrastructures. The expanded integration combines F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs, creating an intelligent, telemetry-aware infrastructure layer that increases token throughput with better GPU utilization, reduces latency, and enables secure multi-tenant AI platforms at scale.