Sydney, Australia – 11 September –
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global
leader in delivering and securing every app and API, has
announced the upcoming availability of F5 Workforce AI
Security, a new agentless offering within the F5 AI Security
Platform that gives organisations visibility and policy
control across workforce AI activity, including employee AI
use and actions taken by agents on users’
behalf.
Employees’ use of AI inside enterprises has
moved beyond basic prompts and queries. AI assistants and
coding agents can now access enterprise systems, call tools,
manipulate data, and take actions using permissions granted
by their users. According to F5’s
2026 State of Application Strategy Report, 66
per cent of organisations already permit AI to automatically
adjust policies and configurations. As employees delegate
more work to AI, agents can also gain access to enterprise
data, permissions, and systems. In effect, AI can act with
borrowed authority. For security teams, that means governing
not only which AI services employees use and what data they
share but what AI is permitted to do on their
behalf.
“Employees aren’t just asking AI questions
anymore. They’re handing work to AI agents that can reach
into enterprise systems, call tools, and change data on
their behalf,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at
F5. “Workforce AI Security applies intent-based guardrails
in the network path to understand the context of AI
interactions and enforce policy before risky actions occur.
With this addition, the F5 AI Security Platform gives
organisations one set of controls across how their workforce
uses AI and how they build and deploy AI, wherever it
runs.”
Control across workforce AI and agent
activity
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F5 Workforce AI Security is designed to
provide visibility and policy enforcement across workforce
AI activity, from employees accessing AI services to agents
taking actions on their behalf. Upon availability,
capabilities are expected to
include:
- Govern workforce AI
use. Discover AI services in use across browsers
and developer tools, and apply controls by service, license
tier, file upload, and data
policy. - Understand identity and
intent. Attribute AI interactions to users and
agents, and capture context including intent, risk, and
policy decisions to support enforcement and
auditability. - Control agent actions before
execution. Inspect and classify tool calls across
MCP servers and supported agent tools, applying policy to
allow, block, or modify actions based on identity, access
risk, and sensitive data exposure before they
run. - Enforce policy in the interaction
path. Apply network-based controls across browsers,
CLIs, coding agents, MCP clients, and agent harnesses,
including self-built tools accessing public model APIs,
without requiring another endpoint client and with seamless
integration into existing SASE
environments.
Extending the F5 AI Security
Platform
F5 introduced
the AI Security Platform in June 2026 to
provide visibility, governance, testing, and runtime
protection across enterprise AI. In August 2026, F5
added AI Gateway capabilities including MCP
Gateway to control traffic and enforce policy
across AI applications, models, agents, and tools. F5
Workforce AI Security now extends those controls to how
employees use AI and the actions agents take on their
behalf.
Expanding F5’s Application
Delivery and Security Platform strategy to
enterprise AI, the F5
AI Security Platform secures enterprise AI
inline and in the inference path, running wherever AI runs.
Because controls are enforced where prompts and responses
actually flow, rather than tied to a specific model,
application, or vendor stack, organisations get one
consistent way to discover AI use, test for vulnerabilities,
protect interactions at runtime, and govern what users and
agents can access and do, without re-architecting what
they’ve already built.
Availability
F5
Workforce AI Security will be generally available beginning
October 2026.
About F5
F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV)
is the global leader that delivers and secures every app.
Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the
industry’s premier platform—F5 Application Delivery and
Security Platform (ADSP)—to deliver and secure every app,
every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge,
and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed
to innovating and partnering with the world’s largest and
most advanced organisations to deliver fast, available, and
secure digital experiences. Together, we help each other
thrive and bring a better digital world to
life.