F5

| COMPANY PROFILE

F5 helps organizations deliver, secure, and optimize their applications and digital services. As enterprises increasingly rely on applications to engage customers and run critical operations, F5 ensures those applications are fast, available, and protected—no matter where they are deployed.

With a strong heritage in application delivery, F5 has evolved into a leader in application security and multi-cloud solutions. Its portfolio supports applications running in on-premises data centers, public clouds, private clouds, and edge environments. F5 enables organizations to manage complex, distributed application architectures with consistent performance, visibility, and control.

Security is at the core of F5’s mission. The company provides advanced protection against cyber threats such as DDoS attacks, bot abuse, and application-layer vulnerabilities, helping customers safeguard sensitive data and maintain business continuity. At the same time, F5’s automation and AI-driven insights allow IT and security teams to reduce operational complexity and respond faster to changing demands.

Trusted by governments, service providers, and enterprises worldwide, F5 empowers organizations to innovate with confidence. By simplifying application delivery and strengthening security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, F5 plays a critical role in enabling modern digital transformation.

| PRODUCT & SOLUTION INTRODUCTION

F5 delivers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions designed to help organizations operate modern applications securely and efficiently across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Three core elements of this portfolio are F5 AI Guardrails, F5 Distributed Cloud (XC), and F5 BIG-IP, each addressing different layers of application delivery and security.

F5 AI Guardrails focuses on securing applications that integrate AI and large language models (LLMs). As organizations rapidly adopt generative AI, new risks emerge, including data leakage, prompt injection, and misuse of AI interfaces. F5 AI Guardrails provides policy-based controls to protect AI interactions by inspecting prompts and responses, enforcing data governance, and ensuring safe, compliant use of AI services. This helps organizations confidently deploy AI-enabled applications without compromising security or privacy.

F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) is a cloud-native platform that delivers application security, networking, and application delivery services as SaaS. Built to support highly distributed architectures, XC enables organizations to deploy and manage applications consistently across public clouds, private data centers, and edge locations. It offers capabilities such as web application and API protection (WAAP), multi-cloud networking, and centralized visibility—reducing operational complexity while improving resilience and security.

F5 BIG-IP is F5’s flagship application delivery and security platform, widely trusted in enterprise and government environments. BIG-IP provides high-performance traffic management, load balancing, SSL/TLS offload, and advanced application security services. Deployed on-premises or in private clouds, BIG-IP ensures mission-critical applications remain scalable, available, and protected.

Together, these solutions allow organizations to modernize application delivery, secure AI innovation, and maintain consistent controls across traditional and cloud-native environments.