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F5 Launches AI Security Platform and Acquires SurePath AI

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F5 has acquired SurePath AI, a company specializing in network-based AI discovery, intent classification, and shadow AI detection.

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F5 has unveiled the AI Security Platform, with which it seeks to provide CISOs with continuous visibility, governance, and protection across all applications, models, AI agents, and APIs they connect. But this is not the company's only news, as it has also confirmed the acquisition of SurePath AI, a company specializing in network-based AI discovery, intent classification, and shadow AI detection. This operation comes within the framework of the launch of the aforementioned platform, to protect enterprise-level AI implementations. In turn, through a continuous and adaptive lifecycle approach to governance, discovery, testing, and protection of enterprise AI workloads, the AI Security Platform is designed to extend the strategy of another F5 platform: ADSP (Application Delivery and Security Platform). This AI Security Platform, just announced by F5, works in on-premises, isolated, private cloud, hybrid, and public cloud environments. In this way, it achieves one of its main objectives: to offer greater control over AI security. With SurePath AI, F5 also boosts the AI Security Platform's approach to discovering AI on the network, identifying its use across the enterprise, including shadow AI, without the need for direct application integrations. SurePath AI, which integrates seamlessly through network redirects and out-of-band analysis, provides security teams with a unified...

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