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About F5

F5 provides application delivery and security products for apps and APIs. Its central offering is the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, which combines application delivery and security functions. The platform can be deployed in multiple forms. F5 also offers products addressing AI security, including protection for AI models, applications, agents, and data. The company's products can be accessed through different buying programs.

Products

  • F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP): Converges application and API security with load balancing and traffic management.
  • F5 BIG-IP: Provides delivery and security for apps and APIs.
  • F5 Distributed Cloud: Delivers SaaS-based delivery, security, and networking across multicloud environments.
  • F5 NGINX Enterprise: Provides cloud-native delivery and security for modern apps, Kubernetes, and APIs.
  • AI Security Platform: Secures AI models, apps, agents, and data across their lifecycle.
  • AI Gateway: Acts as a control plane to govern models, agents, and MCP tools with guardrails.

Used for

  • Protecting applications and APIs from OWASP threats and bots.
  • Detecting and mitigating large-scale network and application DDoS attacks.
  • Discovering, governing, and protecting APIs across the attack surface.
  • Decrypting, inspecting, and orchestrating encrypted traffic across security tools.
  • Scanning external attack surfaces for vulnerabilities on a continuous basis.

Who it is for

  • Used by healthcare organizations for securing AI use and patient data.
  • Used by financial services firms for AI data delivery.
  • Used by more than 80% of the Fortune 500.

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