AI at board speed: How to deploy AI the fast, secure way

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Don’t sacrifice security for speed. With the F5 AI Security Platform, you can have both. F5 gives you one unified, secure platform to deploy AI at your organization—with complete visibility into all your models and integrations. See how it works.

The top to-do item on an IT pro’s list these days isn’t “Provide tech support” or “Maintain software and systems.” Nope, these days, your top to-do item is probably something more along the lines of “Deploy AI across the entire organization as fast as possible while keeping the org at large safe and secure.”

Whew, pretty tall task for an IT pro—but it’s hard to say no when the C-suite is asking. That’s why we teamed up with F5 to break down their new F5 AI Security Platform and dig into how the platform can help you deploy AI at your organization in a fast, secure way.

Ready to see how the F5 AI Security Platform can help you scale AI safely? Let’s get into it.

One unified platform

Your board is aggressively pushing you to deploy AI. But you still need to keep your organization safe and sound. There’s only one way to achieve both: by using one unified platform.

A unified-platform approach helps cut down on the coverage gaps that disjointed tools can leave wide open. That’s why the F5 AI Security Platform secures everything from models to agents to APIs.

Here’s how: F5 enforces security controls directly inline within the data path so they can stop threats before they even interact with your models, data, or agents. With the F5 AI Security Platform, you’ll be able to protect your entire ecosystem and secure every single enterprise AI interaction.

A complete view

Having one platform won’t solve all of your security problems if you don’t also have complete visibility into all the AI usage on your platform.

You can’t govern what you can’t see. But that’s no problem for F5 because they can basically see everything, since they govern traffic at the network layer. That means they’re able to automatically discover *all* AI usage across your entire enterprise, giving you complete, instant visibility into every model, agent, and third-party integration.

With the F5 AI Security Platform, you can get immediate insights into employee AI usage to make whatever security decisions you need to make. Once you’ve got your eye on all models, autonomous agents, and third-party integrations, shadow AI won’t stand a chance in your organization.

In real time

Beyond cache, cloud, or cookies, there’s another word in that C-family you could argue is even more important. We’re talking about compliance.

F5 thought of everything when they made their new AI Security Platform. So of course they made sure their platform could help improve compliance and data security—and they do it using real-time guardrails.

The F5 AI Guardrails inspect prompts and responses with industry-leading security efficacy (at a whopping 98.4%, if you were wondering). And they help you maintain compliance with SOC 2, ISO, and HIPAA by blocking jailbreak attempts and redacting sensitive information. Dare we say, that’s compliance made almost…easy?

In your budget

Now you might be thinking, “The F5 AI Security Platform sounds pretty great, but how much is it going to cost me?” Well, we’re here to tell you that it’s actually pretty affordable, because taming runaway AI costs is a core part of what F5 does.

F5 helps you lower token spend by up to 60%. How? Easy—they track your token spend at a granular level, down to the internal department and team. Then they enforce your budget in real time, before the costs get too out of hand.

The best part? No code is required, because F5 uses smart model routing and semantic caching to help you keep your operational AI costs low and maximize your ROI. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to us.

Get AI-ready ASAP

Ready to move past the roadblocks and get your AI strategy off the ground? You don’t have to choose between speed and safety. With the F5 AI Security Platform, you can meet your C-suite’s demands to launch AI ASAP, all while keeping your enterprise secure.

By using one unified platform, gaining complete visibility, enforcing real-time guardrails, and optimizing token costs, you’re not just deploying AI—you’re deploying it safely and responsibly.

Get your organization ready for whatever the AI landscape throws your way.