Security technology company F5 collaborates with NVIDIA to integrate AI security solutions, providing runtime protection for enterprise applications

Application delivery and security technology company F5 announced the integration of F5 AI Guardrails with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails to provide centralized and consistent security and governance capabilities for AI applications in enterprise production environments. This solution helps organizations perform real-time inspection, policy enforcement, and auditing of AI traffic without modifying application code by separating the security execution layer from the AI framework.

Currently, one of the main obstacles enterprises face when transitioning AI from pilot to production is security issues. In hybrid multi-cloud environments with multiple models and frameworks, problems such as fragmented security controls, inconsistent policy enforcement, and governance blind spots are common. Many AI frameworks include basic security checks, but these controls are embedded within individual applications, lacking a unified policy management interface.

The integration of F5 AI Guardrails with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails provides a layered architecture, allowing framework libraries, microservices, orchestration, and security to operate independently. Under this architecture, enterprises can build standardized policies based on NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, while F5 AI Guardrails centrally handles the security review of prompts and LLM responses, uniformly enforcing enterprise-level security requirements.

In terms of core capabilities, this solution offers the following features:

Real-time prompt and response review: Detects and blocks malicious outputs or data leaks before they reach users.

Centralized policy enforcement: Security teams can manage AI security policies across applications uniformly.

Unified visibility across applications: Provides a single interface to monitor AI behavior across various models and business units.

Independent layered architecture: Each security layer can be updated and expanded independently.

Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer of F5, stated, "Enterprises do not lack AI applications; what they lack is consistent security and governance across applications. This integrated solution provides security teams with a unified interface for inspection, policy enforcement, and governance while giving developers the freedom to build continuously."

Ash Bhalgat, Senior Director of AI Networking and Security Solutions Ecosystem and Marketing at NVIDIA, also pointed out, "The integration with F5 AI Guardrails expands the protective scope available to customers, helping to ensure the security of LLM prompts and responses when deploying AI agents into production."

The integration solution of F5 AI Guardrails and NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails is now officially available. This solution does not rely on specific large language models, allowing enterprises to maintain consistency in security policies when changing models or adding new applications