F5 has enhanced its AI Gateway and integrated it into the F5 AI Security Platform. This creates a unified control point for managing AI models, agents, and tools while addressing AI security, governance, and cost concerns.
Kunal Anand, chief product officer at F5, said: “F5 AI Gateway, integrated into the F5 AI Security Platform, provides a single control point for managing AI across models, clouds, agents, and applications. We believe every enterprise will need an intelligent control layer for AI. F5 is building that foundation, helping customers accelerate innovation while maintaining visibility, security, and control.”
F5 AI Gateway
F5 AI Gateway integrates three critical functions in a single solution:
- Model Gateway for model access and cost optimisation: Tracks token consumption by provider, model, team and user.
- MCP Gateway for agent-to-tool governance: Provides granular controls over AI agents and the tools they can access, including APIs, data sources and retrieval-augmented generation systems. It also maintains audit trails showing what was accessed, when, by which agent and on whose behalf. An MCP server registry provides a centralised inventory of approved servers and tools.
- AI Guardrails: Ensure AI interactions are secure and compliant by inspecting prompts and responses, redacting sensitive data, and blocking threats like prompt injection.
