# F5

F5 is a cybersecurity company based in the United States, founded in 1996. It has 9 products listed on CybersecTools.

> App delivery & security platform for hybrid/multicloud & AI workloads

Source: https://cybersectools.com/companies/f5 · Updated October 2026

## Quick facts

- Category: [Network Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/network-security)
- Type: Product vendor
- Headquarters: United States
- Founded: 1996
- Products listed: 9
- Ownership: Public company (FFIV)
- Website: [f5.com](https://www.f5.com/)

## What does F5 do?

F5 provides application delivery and security solutions designed to optimize, secure, and manage applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. The company offers the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), which serves as a unified platform for delivering consistent security and performance across diverse infrastructure deployments.

F5's solutions address AI infrastructure requirements by providing high-performance networking, traffic management, and security capabilities for AI workloads throughout the AI pipeline. This includes data ingestion, model training, inference, and edge deployment. The company's technology enables organizations to handle the intensive computational demands of AI applications through optimized data movement, GPU orchestration, and network segmentation.

The company's security offerings protect AI applications, models, and data through API security, real-time traffic inspection, web application scanning, and defenses against prompt-level threats such as prompt injections and data leakage. F5 recently acquired CalypsoAI to enhance AI runtime protection capabilities for models and agents.

F5's product portfolio includes solutions for traffic management, load balancing, application security, and distributed cloud services. The company works with technology partners including NVIDIA to deliver reference architectures for AI infrastructure. F5 serves organizations deploying applications and AI workloads across on-premises data centers, cloud platforms, and edge environments, providing capabilities for scalability, availability, and performance optimization.

Categories: [Network Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/network-security), [Cloud Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/cloud-security), [AI Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/ai-security)

## F5 products

- [F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-distributed-cloud-waf): SaaS-based WAF for protecting web apps across multi-cloud, on-prem & edge (commercial)
- [F5 WAF for NGINX and F5 DoS for NGINX](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-waf-for-nginx-and-f5-dos-for-nginx): WAF and L7 DoS protection for modern apps and APIs in DevOps environments (commercial)
- [F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-application-delivery-and-security-platform-adsp): Platform for app delivery, security, API protection, and WAF across environments (commercial)
- [F5 BIG-IP DNS](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-big-ip-dns): DNS and Global Server Load Balancing solution with DDoS protection (commercial)
- [F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-big-ip-local-traffic-manager): Application delivery controller with load balancing and traffic management (commercial)
- [F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-big-ip-advanced-waf): WAF protecting apps and APIs from attacks, bots, and OWASP Top 10 threats (commercial)
- [F5 Aspen Mesh](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-aspen-mesh): Istio-based service mesh for 5G microservices & cloud-native deployments (commercial)
- [F5 AI Guardrails](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-ai-guardrails): Runtime security for AI models, agents, and data with guardrails and compliance (commercial)
- [F5 AI Red Team](https://cybersectools.com/tools/f5-ai-red-team): AI red teaming platform for testing vulnerabilities in AI models and agents (commercial)

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