{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"132682","rtpr_id":"nBw7MfFkta","ticker":"FFIV","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["FFIV"],"title":"F5 Accelerates Virtual Patching to Manage Emerging Cyber Risks With AI-Powered WAF and Runtime Security","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-09-01T13:00:01.889Z","article_body":"F5 Accelerates Virtual Patching to Manage Emerging Cyber Risks With AI-Powered\nWAF and Runtime Security\n\nFrontier AI turns vulnerabilities into exploits in hours; F5 enables security\nteams to maintain availability, governance, and operational stability by\nblocking threats in minutes\n\nF5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and\nAPI, today announced innovations to block frontier AI-driven threats in the\ndata path and enable faster virtual patching, giving security leaders time to\nmake intelligent risk-based decisions rather than reactive operational\ncompromises. With new features such as anomaly detection and agentic threat\nintelligence, F5’s AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) is uniquely\ncapable in delivering real-time protections because of its strategic position\nin customers’ infrastructure. Enhancements to F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Fdistributed-cloud-services%2Fdistributed-cloud-waf&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+WAF+for+Distributed+Cloud&index=1&md5=e1a9fab35f178a241e296eadbcc52112)\nand virtual patching provide the precision needed to confidently block active\nexploits at the request level.\n\n“Frontier AI has collapsed the time between vulnerability discovery and\nactive exploitation,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “The\nold model of waiting for code to be rewritten, tested, and redeployed cannot\nkeep pace. F5 puts protection directly into the data path, where we can\nidentify and block exploits in minutes. Virtual patching gives organizations\nsomething increasingly scarce in cybersecurity: time. Time to understand the\nrisk, protect the business, and fix the underlying vulnerability without\nforcing teams into a permanent state of crisis.”\n\nF5 blocks exploits with runtime security, enabling customers to quickly deploy\nvirtual patches. Introduced\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Fsecuring-web-apps-without-complexity-how-f5-s-ai-powered-waf-transforms-waf-security&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Introduced&index=2&md5=e845153989c8cb7cb6f750de9243d7a6)\nearlier this year, F5’s AI-powered WAF has already seen strong customer\nadoption. In internal F5 testing, the solution delivered 98% threat detection\nefficacy while reducing false positives to 1%, extending the F5 Application\nDelivery and Security Platform\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Ff5-application-delivery-and-security-platform&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+Application+Delivery+and+Security+Platform&index=3&md5=44e32052ea812d4e6339d1dff5808512)\n(ADSP) and giving teams confidence to convert scanner findings into enforced\nprotection in minutes rather than weeks.\n\nF5 has enhanced its capabilities, adding anomaly detection and agentic threat\nintelligence to a WAF solution that evaluates requests inline using real-time\nmachine learning classification and a neural network risk engine to assign a\nrisk score to each request as it arrives. Scoring risk dynamically, rather\nthan matching known signatures, allows the WAF to help defend against zero-day\nattempts, injection attacks, and polymorphic exploit chains that change shape\non every attempt.\n\nIn tailoring infrastructures for a post-Mythos world, F5 helps customers\nevolve their AI cybersecurity capabilities:\n\nContinually analyze traffic for attack signals\n\nBuilt directly into F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud, innovative anomaly detection\nis an intelligent, self-learning capability that continuously analyzes each\napplication’s unique traffic patterns, establishing traffic norms and\nflagging meaningful deviations that could signal a pending attack. It builds\nper-application statistical baselines and, in real time, scores incoming\nrequests against baselines to identify attacks and false positives. Anomaly\ndetection provides security teams with more accurate protection for their apps\nwithout adding complexity.\n\nPrioritize potential exploits with agentic threat intelligence\n\nSecurity teams do not lack alerts. They lack context. New agentic threat\nintelligence capabilities, built on technology from the acquisition of Fletch,\ncombine external intelligence on emerging and actively exploited threats with\nwhat F5 sees reaching customer applications. Teams get one view of which\nthreats are real, which are relevant to their environment, and what to do\nabout each one, with recommended mitigations that can be applied immediately\nas virtual patches.\n\nEnforce virtual patches in minutes\n\nProtection cannot wait for a code release. F5 also delivers automated virtual\npatching with F5 Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Fdistributed-cloud-services%2Fweb-app-scanning&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+Distributed+Cloud+Web+App+Scanning&index=4&md5=275af183acc1ed926c9a55cc778e1b57)\n(WAS). The solution identifies exposed vulnerabilities, unprotected APIs, and\nbusiness logic flaws to trigger targeted virtual patches at runtime. For\nhybrid environments, these timely virtual patching capabilities also extend to\nF5 WAF for BIG-IP. Customers can apply existing signatures or write custom\nrules scoped to a specific CVE, attack path, method, header, or parameter\nacross environments.\n\nBalance business risk with emerging threats\n\nFalse positives are the reason most WAFs sit in passive monitoring mode. F5\nWAF for Distributed Cloud, through AI-powered risk-based scoring, reduces\nfalse positives to 1%, giving SecOps the confidence to start blocking risky\ntraffic sooner without affecting application availability. Virtual patching\nusing F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud then acts as a safety valve, holding\nprotection in place while developers build, test, and release a permanent fix\ninside standard change controls.\n\nExtend remediation to the F5 estate\n\nWhile virtual patching holds the line in the request path, F5 Insight for ADSP\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Ff5-insight&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+Insight+for+ADSP&index=5&md5=6a1e17da3d153371d3cff0b3d62785e5)\naccelerates patching of the underlying infrastructure. F5 Insight gives\noperations teams supported update and patching workflows across F5 hardware\nand software environments with readiness checks, taking advantage of F5’s\nupdated hardened release cadence\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Four-first-hardened-release-cycle-what-we-learned-and-how-we-re-changing&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=hardened+release+cadence&index=6&md5=d0e54a0f0c1cc5aac4aa168b5b355dfe)\n. Together, these capabilities mitigate exposure in minutes and remediate the\nfleet on a preferred schedule.\n\nNew AI-powered WAF capabilities are available now on Distributed Cloud as part\nof the F5 ADSP. Virtual patching capabilities, along with the integration\nbetween F5 Distributed Cloud WAS and F5 WAF for BIG-IP, are also available\ntoday. Agentic threat intelligence and anomaly detection are rolling out to F5\nWAF for Distributed Cloud customers, with broader availability continuing over\nthe coming months.\n\nSupporting resources\n\n\n * Blog: \nF5’s AI-powered WAF advances virtual patching for the post-Mythos era\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Fadvance-virtual-patching-with-f5-for-post-mythos-era&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5%26%238217%3Bs+AI-powered+WAF+advances+virtual+patching+for+the+post-Mythos+era&index=7&md5=f5046dd1dd0f280d5a0d65f45f45ebec)\n\n * Blog: \nFour reasons not to miss the F5 post-Mythos security summit\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Ffour-reasons-not-to-miss-the-f5-post-mythos-security-summit&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Four+reasons+not+to+miss+the+F5+post-Mythos+security+summit&index=8&md5=93a6c0780d1f4f656e8e2819ef039086)\n\n * F5 virtual security summit: \nSecurity for the post-Mythos world\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fvirtual-security-summit-2026&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Security+for+the+post-Mythos+world&index=9&md5=33a5c13b37d2aa6e981c65b954bae21b)\n\n * Use case: \nVirtual patching is your first line of defense\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fsolutions%2Fuse-cases%2Fvirtual-patching&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Virtual+patching+is+your+first+line+of+defense&index=10&md5=772c6a4ae4da7530dc8817164c95cb1f)\n\nAbout F5\n\nF5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is the global leader that delivers and secures every\napp. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s\npremier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to\ndeliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud,\nat the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed to\ninnovating and partnering with the world’s largest and most advanced\norganizations to deliver fast, available, and secure digital experiences.\nTogether, we help each other thrive and bring a better digital world to life.\n\nFor more information visit f5.com \n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2F&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=f5.com&index=11&md5=c0a29e9af3cf2a105e26a122dd5b714d)\n\nExplore F5 Labs threat research at f5.com/labs \n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Flabs&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=f5.com%2Flabs&index=12&md5=779474afcdd3077ee494595055c3521b)\n\nFollow to learn more about F5, our partners, and technologies: Blog\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Blog&index=13&md5=61908aaa51087fff292c6a3ff9194e72)\n| LinkedIn\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Ff5%2F&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=LinkedIn&index=14&md5=52c9fb1662e7edb87be1c1ad56cc213e)\n| X\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Ff5&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=X&index=15&md5=1829ae4cb8eb40c96696a27c20b6241e)\n| YouTube\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40F5_inc&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=YouTube&index=16&md5=14b62d3c0a8563d467615c0996219098)\n| Instagram\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Ff5.global%2F&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Instagram&index=17&md5=0a9c5bded5a5d4f70eb2d91c64ea058a)\n| Facebook\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ff5incorporated&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Facebook&index=18&md5=7ef6a6e73039e170095d54c6dae7dd46)\n\nF5, F5 ADSP, BIG-IP, and Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning are trademarks,\nservice marks, or tradenames of F5, Inc. or its affiliates in the U.S. and\nother countries. 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With new features such as anomaly detection and agentic threat\nintelligence, F5’s AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) is uniquely\ncapable in delivering real-time protections because of its strategic position\nin customers’ infrastructure. Enhancements to F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Fdistributed-cloud-services%2Fdistributed-cloud-waf&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+WAF+for+Distributed+Cloud&index=1&md5=e1a9fab35f178a241e296eadbcc52112)\nand virtual patching provide the precision needed to confidently block active\nexploits at the request level.\n\n“Frontier AI has collapsed the time between vulnerability discovery and\nactive exploitation,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “The\nold model of waiting for code to be rewritten, tested, and redeployed cannot\nkeep pace. F5 puts protection directly into the data path, where we can\nidentify and block exploits in minutes. Virtual patching gives organizations\nsomething increasingly scarce in cybersecurity: time. Time to understand the\nrisk, protect the business, and fix the underlying vulnerability without\nforcing teams into a permanent state of crisis.”\n\nF5 blocks exploits with runtime security, enabling customers to quickly deploy\nvirtual patches. Introduced\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Fsecuring-web-apps-without-complexity-how-f5-s-ai-powered-waf-transforms-waf-security&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Introduced&index=2&md5=e845153989c8cb7cb6f750de9243d7a6)\nearlier this year, F5’s AI-powered WAF has already seen strong customer\nadoption. In internal F5 testing, the solution delivered 98% threat detection\nefficacy while reducing false positives to 1%, extending the F5 Application\nDelivery and Security Platform\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Ff5-application-delivery-and-security-platform&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+Application+Delivery+and+Security+Platform&index=3&md5=44e32052ea812d4e6339d1dff5808512)\n(ADSP) and giving teams confidence to convert scanner findings into enforced\nprotection in minutes rather than weeks.\n\nF5 has enhanced its capabilities, adding anomaly detection and agentic threat\nintelligence to a WAF solution that evaluates requests inline using real-time\nmachine learning classification and a neural network risk engine to assign a\nrisk score to each request as it arrives. Scoring risk dynamically, rather\nthan matching known signatures, allows the WAF to help defend against zero-day\nattempts, injection attacks, and polymorphic exploit chains that change shape\non every attempt.\n\nIn tailoring infrastructures for a post-Mythos world, F5 helps customers\nevolve their AI cybersecurity capabilities:\n\nContinually analyze traffic for attack signals\n\nBuilt directly into F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud, innovative anomaly detection\nis an intelligent, self-learning capability that continuously analyzes each\napplication’s unique traffic patterns, establishing traffic norms and\nflagging meaningful deviations that could signal a pending attack. It builds\nper-application statistical baselines and, in real time, scores incoming\nrequests against baselines to identify attacks and false positives. Anomaly\ndetection provides security teams with more accurate protection for their apps\nwithout adding complexity.\n\nPrioritize potential exploits with agentic threat intelligence\n\nSecurity teams do not lack alerts. They lack context. New agentic threat\nintelligence capabilities, built on technology from the acquisition of Fletch,\ncombine external intelligence on emerging and actively exploited threats with\nwhat F5 sees reaching customer applications. Teams get one view of which\nthreats are real, which are relevant to their environment, and what to do\nabout each one, with recommended mitigations that can be applied immediately\nas virtual patches.\n\nEnforce virtual patches in minutes\n\nProtection cannot wait for a code release. F5 also delivers automated virtual\npatching with F5 Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Fdistributed-cloud-services%2Fweb-app-scanning&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+Distributed+Cloud+Web+App+Scanning&index=4&md5=275af183acc1ed926c9a55cc778e1b57)\n(WAS). The solution identifies exposed vulnerabilities, unprotected APIs, and\nbusiness logic flaws to trigger targeted virtual patches at runtime. For\nhybrid environments, these timely virtual patching capabilities also extend to\nF5 WAF for BIG-IP. Customers can apply existing signatures or write custom\nrules scoped to a specific CVE, attack path, method, header, or parameter\nacross environments.\n\nBalance business risk with emerging threats\n\nFalse positives are the reason most WAFs sit in passive monitoring mode. F5\nWAF for Distributed Cloud, through AI-powered risk-based scoring, reduces\nfalse positives to 1%, giving SecOps the confidence to start blocking risky\ntraffic sooner without affecting application availability. Virtual patching\nusing F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud then acts as a safety valve, holding\nprotection in place while developers build, test, and release a permanent fix\ninside standard change controls.\n\nExtend remediation to the F5 estate\n\nWhile virtual patching holds the line in the request path, F5 Insight for ADSP\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fproducts%2Ff5-insight&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5+Insight+for+ADSP&index=5&md5=6a1e17da3d153371d3cff0b3d62785e5)\naccelerates patching of the underlying infrastructure. F5 Insight gives\noperations teams supported update and patching workflows across F5 hardware\nand software environments with readiness checks, taking advantage of F5’s\nupdated hardened release cadence\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Four-first-hardened-release-cycle-what-we-learned-and-how-we-re-changing&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=hardened+release+cadence&index=6&md5=d0e54a0f0c1cc5aac4aa168b5b355dfe)\n. Together, these capabilities mitigate exposure in minutes and remediate the\nfleet on a preferred schedule.\n\nNew AI-powered WAF capabilities are available now on Distributed Cloud as part\nof the F5 ADSP. Virtual patching capabilities, along with the integration\nbetween F5 Distributed Cloud WAS and F5 WAF for BIG-IP, are also available\ntoday. Agentic threat intelligence and anomaly detection are rolling out to F5\nWAF for Distributed Cloud customers, with broader availability continuing over\nthe coming months.\n\nSupporting resources\n\n\n * Blog: \nF5’s AI-powered WAF advances virtual patching for the post-Mythos era\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Fadvance-virtual-patching-with-f5-for-post-mythos-era&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=F5%26%238217%3Bs+AI-powered+WAF+advances+virtual+patching+for+the+post-Mythos+era&index=7&md5=f5046dd1dd0f280d5a0d65f45f45ebec)\n\n * Blog: \nFour reasons not to miss the F5 post-Mythos security summit\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog%2Ffour-reasons-not-to-miss-the-f5-post-mythos-security-summit&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Four+reasons+not+to+miss+the+F5+post-Mythos+security+summit&index=8&md5=93a6c0780d1f4f656e8e2819ef039086)\n\n * F5 virtual security summit: \nSecurity for the post-Mythos world\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fvirtual-security-summit-2026&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Security+for+the+post-Mythos+world&index=9&md5=33a5c13b37d2aa6e981c65b954bae21b)\n\n * Use case: \nVirtual patching is your first line of defense\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fsolutions%2Fuse-cases%2Fvirtual-patching&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Virtual+patching+is+your+first+line+of+defense&index=10&md5=772c6a4ae4da7530dc8817164c95cb1f)\n\nAbout F5\n\nF5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is the global leader that delivers and secures every\napp. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s\npremier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to\ndeliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud,\nat the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed to\ninnovating and partnering with the world’s largest and most advanced\norganizations to deliver fast, available, and secure digital experiences.\nTogether, we help each other thrive and bring a better digital world to life.\n\nFor more information visit f5.com \n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2F&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=f5.com&index=11&md5=c0a29e9af3cf2a105e26a122dd5b714d)\n\nExplore F5 Labs threat research at f5.com/labs \n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Flabs&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=f5.com%2Flabs&index=12&md5=779474afcdd3077ee494595055c3521b)\n\nFollow to learn more about F5, our partners, and technologies: Blog\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.f5.com%2Fcompany%2Fblog&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Blog&index=13&md5=61908aaa51087fff292c6a3ff9194e72)\n| LinkedIn\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Ff5%2F&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=LinkedIn&index=14&md5=52c9fb1662e7edb87be1c1ad56cc213e)\n| X\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Ff5&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=X&index=15&md5=1829ae4cb8eb40c96696a27c20b6241e)\n| YouTube\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40F5_inc&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=YouTube&index=16&md5=14b62d3c0a8563d467615c0996219098)\n| Instagram\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Ff5.global%2F&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Instagram&index=17&md5=0a9c5bded5a5d4f70eb2d91c64ea058a)\n| Facebook\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ff5incorporated&esheet=54597066&newsitemid=20260901770069&lan=en-US&anchor=Facebook&index=18&md5=7ef6a6e73039e170095d54c6dae7dd46)\n\nF5, F5 ADSP, BIG-IP, and Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning are trademarks,\nservice marks, or tradenames of F5, Inc. or its affiliates in the U.S. and\nother countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks\nof their respective owners.\n\nSource: F5, Inc.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260901770069/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260901770069/en/)\n\nDan Sorensen\n\nF5\n\n(650) 228-4842\n\nd.sorensen@f5.com (mailto:d.sorensen@f5.com)\n\nHolly Lancaster\n\nWe. 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