At AppWorld, F5 announced new capabilities that would reduce the complexity of powering and protecting their growing number of applications and APIs. The company stated as AI accelerates the growth of multiple applications and the APIs that connect them, F5 has launched an API code testing and telemetry analysis to its F5 Distributed Cloud services. This helps create a comprehensive and AI-ready API security solution.
The NASDAQ listed company is making AI pervasive across its solution portfolio with intelligent capabilities that help consumers protect against newer sophisticated AI-powered threats. It also makes it easier to secure and manage multi-cloud application environments.
AI will continue grow in the volume of apps and APIs, and creating significant security challenges that companies need to be prepared for, the protection of these API connections and the data that runs through them is critical.
F5’s Distributed Cloud Services will now offer the industry’s most comprehensive, AI-ready API security solution. The addition of capabilities recently acquired from API security innovator Wib enables vulnerability detection and observability in application development processes, ensuring that risks are identified and policies implemented before APIs enter production.
“At a time when API security has never been more important and more complex, F5 is eliminating the need for customers to pay for and manage separate API security solutions by offering API discovery, testing, posture management, and runtime protection—all in a single platform,” the note stated.
“In today’s highly distributed and interconnected world, the protection of the connections that fuel business-critical processes is becoming one of the most important components of enterprise security,” said Chris Steffen, Vice President of Research, EMA. “As AI accelerates growth in applications and APIs, the ability to consolidate tools and have a single end-to-end API security solution will be a significant advantage for any company.”
François Locoh-Donou, President and CEO, F5 stated in a note, companies are already facing daunting complexity and changing threat landscape. He stated the added pressure to secure and deliver AI services compounds this, putting many security and IT teams in an tough position.
“It is our singular mission to deliver solutions that greatly reduce this complexity so our customers can focus on what matters most to them: their business. We are delivering new capabilities that ensure our customers are ready for AI, making it significantly easier for them to protect and power every app, every API, everywhere,” he said.
At the 2024 State of Application Strategy Report by F5, close to 88 per cent of the enterprises reported that they deploy apps and APIs across multiple locations. Companies have realised that no single cloud is perfect for every application. Today, multi-cloud and hybrid architectures offer the flexibility to deliver digital experiences and meet user expectations.
This has created complexity in the enterprise application environments, and this will continue to grow. The research also found that the percentage of organisations hosting their apps in six different environments has doubled.
