New end-to-end API security and AI
capabilities make it easier for customers to protect their
AI-powered applications
Today at AppWorld, the premier application security and delivery
conference, F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced new capabilities that
reduce the complexity of protecting and powering the exploding
number of applications and APIs at the heart of modern digital
experiences.
As AI accelerates the growth of applications and the APIs that
connect them, F5 is bringing API code testing and telemetry
analysis to F5 Distributed Cloud Services, creating the industry’s
most comprehensive and AI-ready API security solution. F5 also
announced it is making AI pervasive across its entire solution
portfolio with intelligent capabilities that help customers protect
against sophisticated AI-powered threats, while making it easier to
secure and manage multicloud application environments.
“Companies already face daunting complexity and a rapidly
changing threat landscape. The added pressure to secure and deliver
AI services compounds this, putting many security and IT teams in
an untenable position,” said François Locoh-Donou, President and
CEO, F5. “It is our singular mission to deliver solutions that
greatly reduce this complexity so our customers can focus on what
matters most to them: their business. We are delivering new
capabilities that ensure our customers are ready for AI, making it
significantly easier for them to protect and power every app, every
API, everywhere.”
In F5’s forthcoming 2024 State of Application Strategy report,
88% of enterprises report that they deploy apps and APIs across
multiple locations. Companies have realized that no single cloud is
perfect for every application, while hybrid and multicloud
architectures offer the flexibility necessary to deliver today’s
modern digital experiences and meet sky-high user expectations.
This has created immense complexity in enterprise application
environments, and it only continues to grow. The same research
found that the percentage of organizations hosting their
applications in six different environments doubled in the past
year, to 38%. At the same time, applications and the critical data
that flows through them have become the preferred targets for
increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Complexity is not just
slowing down operations, it is expanding the threat surface area
and creating substantial risk for organizations.
F5 Distributed Cloud Services offer the industry’s most
comprehensive, AI-ready API security solution
As AI drives growth in the volume of apps and APIs, it is adding
significant security challenges that companies must solve. New
AI-driven digital experiences are highly distributed with a mix of
data sources, models, and services spread across on-premises,
cloud, and edge environments, all connected by an expanding network
of APIs. The protection of these API connections and the data that
runs through them is the critical security challenge that companies
must face as they deploy more AI-enabled services.
To address this challenge, Distributed Cloud Services will now
offer the industry’s most comprehensive, AI-ready API security
solution. Today, companies are forced to use disparate tool sets
and capabilities to secure their APIs at build time and during
runtime. The addition of capabilities recently acquired from API
security innovator Wib enables vulnerability detection and
observability in application development processes, ensuring that
risks are identified and policies implemented before APIs enter
production. At a time when API security has never been more
important and more complex, F5 is eliminating the need for
customers to pay for and manage separate API security solutions by
offering API discovery, testing, posture management, and runtime
protection—all in a single platform.
Distributed Cloud Services offer the following benefits of a
full lifecycle API security solution:
- Greatly reduced risk window for new APIs, through the
identification of vulnerabilities and enforcement of strict,
accurate specifications before they enter production.
- Clear governance guidance, with real-time standards and
regulatory compliance reporting for security operations teams and
CISOs.
- API discovery, including third-party and unmanaged APIs in
application code, on public internet properties, or referenced in
app telemetry.
- A single solution for both API discovery and enforcement of
protocols, policies, and configurations from code to runtime.
“In today’s highly distributed and interconnected world, the
protection of the connections that fuel business-critical processes
is becoming one of the most important components of enterprise
security,” said Chris Steffen, Vice President of Research, EMA. “As
AI accelerates growth in applications and APIs, the ability to
consolidate tools and have a single end-to-end API security
solution will be a significant advantage for any company.”
For more information on Distributed Cloud API Security, please
see this companion blog.
Making AI pervasive across the F5 portfolio
F5 technology sits in the data path of nearly half of the
world’s applications, providing the unique position and expertise
to deliver AI-enabled solutions that benefit from an unmatched
level of data. The new F5 AI Data Fabric is a foundation for
building innovative solutions that help customers make more
informed decisions and take quicker actions. Telemetry from
Distributed Cloud Services, BIG-IP, and NGINX will surface
unparalleled insights, produce real-time reports, automate actions,
and power AI agents.
Later this year, F5 will release an AI assistant that will
change the way customers interact with and manage F5 solutions
using a natural language interface. Powered by the F5 AI Data
Fabric, the tool will serve as an intelligent partner to stretched
IT and security teams. It will easily generate data visualizations,
identify anomalies, query and generate policy configurations, and
apply remediation steps. It will also act as an embedded customer
support manager, allowing customers to ask questions and receive
recommendations based on model training of entire product knowledge
bases.
For more information on the F5 AI Data Fabric, please see this
companion blog.
Additional Resources
- At F5, Ridiculously Easy App Security and Delivery Is Our
Guiding Light – F5 Blog
- AppWorld 2024 Details
About F5
F5 is a multicloud application security and delivery company
committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5
partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to
secure every app—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5
enables businesses to continuously stay ahead of threats while
delivering exceptional, secure digital experiences for their
customers. For more information, go to f5.com. (NASDAQ: FFIV)
You can also follow @F5 on X (Twitter) or visit us on LinkedIn
and Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and
technologies.
F5, AppWorld, Distributed Cloud Services, BIG-IP, NGINX, and AI
Data Fabric are trademarks, service marks, or tradenames of F5,
Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and
company names herein may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Source: F5, Inc.
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