New integrations enable centralized policy enforcement across AI applications, accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the world leader in delivering and securing all apps and APIs, today announced F5 AI Guardrails integrated with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails. It is an AI-native solution that brings F5’s enterprise-grade AI security capabilities to production AI applications.
Security remains the main reason why enterprises struggle to move AI from pilot to production. Organizations deploying multiple AI models and frameworks across hybrid multicloud infrastructures face fragmented security controls, inconsistent policy enforcement, and governance gaps that widen with each new AI application. Most AI frameworks include basic safety checks, but these controls are built into individual applications rather than being applied centrally. Security and compliance teams are left with visibility stitched together across tools and applications because there is no single place to inspect AI traffic, enforce policies, and audit what happens.
F5 AI Guardrails, integrated with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, brings centralized and consistent security and governance across AI applications by separating security enforcement from the AI framework. Organizations can standardize on NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, while F5 AI Guardrails handles security inspection of prompts and LLM responses and centrally enforces enterprise policies without making changes to AI applications. The result is a layered architecture where framework libraries, microservices, orchestration, and security each perform the functions they best perform and evolve independently.
“Enterprises don’t lack AI applications; they lack consistent security and governance across the enterprise,” said Kunal Anand, chief product officer at F5. “As AI moves into production, fragmented controls create risk, complexity, and latency. This integration gives security teams a unified point to inspect AI traffic, enforce policy, and manage AI applications across their environments, while giving developers the freedom to keep building.”
Centralized security inspection for production AI
F5 AI Guardrails protects AI systems, inspecting prompts and responses between users and applications, and helps prevent prompt injection, PII leakage, data exfiltration, and malicious output. Security policies are applied centrally, rather than built into each AI application, allowing organizations to enforce enterprise security requirements without changing application code. The main features are:
- Immediate response inspection: Security policies are applied to AI traffic in real-time to detect and reduce prompt injections, unauthorized data disclosure, and harmful output before they reach users or downstream systems.
- Centralized policy enforcement: Security teams apply and manage AI security policies across applications from one place without rewriting application code or changing workflows.
- Consistent visibility across AI applications: A single view of AI application behavior across models, frameworks, and business units allows security teams to monitor, audit, and respond from a single operational layer.
- Independent layered architecture: F5 security inspection layer on top of the NVIDIA AI framework. Each can be independently updated, scaled, or replaced as requirements change.
This approach eliminates the tension between development speed and security requirements, allowing AI platform teams to orchestrate quickly while security teams maintain independent control over inspection, policy, and governance. With this solution, neither party has to wait for the other.
“NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails provides an open, programmable framework for applying safety and security policies to AI applications,” said Ash Bhalgat, senior director of AI networking and security solutions, ecosystem and marketing at NVIDIA. “The integration with F5 AI Guardrails expands the scope of protections available to customers to secure LLM prompts and responses as they move their AI agents into production.”
Open architecture that scales with your AI deployment
F5 AI Guardrail, integrated with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, protects AI applications regardless of the underlying large-scale language model. Organizations can change models, add new AI applications, or scale across business units while maintaining consistent security inspections and policy enforcement. As AI adoption increases, security is designed to scale with AI, rather than constrain it.
F5 AI Guardrail integrated with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrail is now generally available.
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“As enterprises move AI into production, the infrastructure on which AI persists becomes a competitive differentiator. Equinix provides a neutral, interconnected foundation where AI runs at scale and integrates private infrastructure, multiple clouds, and a rich AI ecosystem. Our collaboration with F5 will extend consistent security and policy enforcement across those distributed environments, allowing customers to scale AI with confidence while maintaining performance, sovereignty, and choice,” said Mariam Zand, vice president of ecosystem development at Equinix.
“While enterprises are rapidly adopting AI, significant hurdles remain to scaling AI. Red Hat AI Factory and NVIDIA are co-designed enterprise-grade AI solutions that help organizations more seamlessly build, deploy, and scale AI workloads in line with business demands. This latest integration of F5 AI guardrails and NVIDIA NeMo guardrails expands runtime protection and enables customers to use NVIDIA and Red Hat AI Factory to deploy and scale AI with more confidence.” Vice President of Red Hat AI and Infrastructure Partners.
“Enterprise AI success depends not only on strong infrastructure, but also on establishing trust before applications reach production. Through WWT’s AI Proving Ground collaboration with NVIDIA, customers can validate their AI architectures before deployment. The integration of F5 AI Guardrails with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails further strengthens that approach by adding policy-driven AI governance and runtime protection, enabling organizations to ,” said Chris Konrad, Global VP of AI and Cyber. WWT.
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