F5
F5 provides a converged application delivery and security platform that ensures every app, API, and component—from cloud to edge—is fast, available, and secure. The platform unifies web application firewall, API security, bot defense, DDoS protection, and multicloud networking under a single management console. Over 80% of the Fortune Global 500 rely on F5 for consistent security and high availability across distributed environments.
- Cybersecurity
- Software Only
- Artificial Intelligence
- Hardware
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Organizations deploying applications across distributed environments—spanning data centers, multiple clouds, and edge locations—face significant operational complexity. Managing disparate security, networking, and application delivery tools across these environments creates policy inconsistencies, increases total cost of ownership, and reduces security efficacy.
Solution
F5 provides a converged application delivery and security platform that ensures every app, API, and component—from cloud to edge—has consistent, comprehensive security, high availability, and intelligent orchestration. The platform unifies web application and API protection, DDoS mitigation, bot defense, and multicloud networking under a single policy engine and management console. This integration enables customers to enforce consistent security policies across clouds, on-premises, and edge locations while simplifying provisioning and reducing infrastructure complexity. The platform is deployable in any form factor—hardware, software, or SaaS—with fully programmable data planes and rich analytics for actionable insights.
Target Audience
Primary customers are enterprises and service providers operating applications across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments who need unified security, networking, and application delivery. F5 serves over 80% of the Fortune Global 500 across industries including banking, healthcare, e-commerce, public sector, and technology.
Features
- Web App Firewall enforcing consistent application security policies across clouds, on-prem, and edge locations
- API Security with automatic endpoint discovery, legitimate transaction allowlisting, and anomaly monitoring
- Bot Defense detecting and mitigating malicious bot attacks in real-time while preserving user experience
- DDoS Protection mitigating both application-based (Layer 7) and volumetric (Layer 3) attacks
- AI Security Platform with AI Guardrails, AI Red Team, and AI Gateway for securing AI workloads and applications
- Multicloud networking via Network Connect and App Connect for simplified provisioning and end-to-end security across cloud providers
- CDN, DNS, and DNS Load Balancer services for performance, resilience, and cloud-based disaster recovery
- Unified intelligence and operations through F5 Insight, providing rich analytics and actionable insights across the platform