Securing AI at scale with F5 and Google Cloud

Beth McElroySr. Alliances Manager | F5

As enterprises embrace AI, they encounter new attack surfaces, unpredictable outputs, and compliance risks that traditional security tools weren't built to handle. F5 and Google Cloud are working together to help organizations close the gaps without slowing down innovation.

It’s made possible by F5 AI Guardrails, an integral part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP). With this solution, enterprises on Google Cloud get the traffic visibility, policy enforcement, and threat protection they need to navigate emerging AI risks.

Solving new AI challenges

As AI systems become deeply embedded in enterprise operations, often on a global scale, security and application teams need to address a more holistic picture of risk. New threats and vulnerabilities introduced by AI adoption and development include:

• Data exposure: To enable customized capabilities, enterprises need to train or fine-tune proprietary models using their critical business data. Techniques such as prompt injection or jailbreak attacks enable attackers to extract sensitive information, requiring a new breed of security measures to mitigate these risks in real time.
• Multi-model deployments: Today’s enterprise AI is typically composed of interconnected models and agents. Managing security policies across separate platforms creates inconsistencies, vulnerabilities, and operational inefficiencies.
• Regulatory compliance: AI deployments must navigate evolving regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), HIPAA, the EU AI Act, and country-specific privacy laws. Oftentimes, they need to adjust workflows and outputs based on the country, region, or industry in which they operate.
• Problematic outputs: Organizations need to implement controls to prevent biased, inaccurate, unapproved, or unsafe model outputs.

These risks make AI policies, controls, and enforcement mechanisms an essential part of any enterprise security strategy. F5 and Google Cloud provide the capabilities you need to quickly deploy AI safeguards that match your unique organizational requirements and risk profile.

How AI Guardrails on Google Cloud works

AI Guardrails help enterprise teams define and deploy agile threat management, data security, and governance for AI models, apps, and agents. Organizations can use this solution to ensure they stay ahead of evolving risks across all their models, applications, and multi-cloud environments, taking advantage of both robust out-of-the-box protections and customizable controls to adapt defenses as needs change.

Using AI Guardrails on Google Cloud, your organization can:

• Create custom security and content moderation policies through an intuitive natural language interface.
• Ensure consistent policy enforcement across every model, regardless of provider or source, with a model-agnostic architecture.
• Use outcome analysis to get simplified explanations for why a prompt or output was blocked or allowed.
• Deploy purpose-built controls for regulatory needs as well as content moderation for unauthorized legal, healthcare, or financial advice.

AI Guardrails is backed by an industry-leading AI vulnerability database and agentic threat research, ensuring initiatives on Google Cloud stay ahead of the most sophisticated emerging threats. The dedicated F5 AI threat research team provides critical insights into the specific risk profiles of the most popular models through the Comprehensive AI Security Index (CASI) and Agentic Resistance Score (ARS) leaderboards.

AI agents are another critical and fast-growing area of enterprise AI innovation. Here, AI Guardrails integrates with Google Cloud Agent Gateway to introduce a centralized enforcement point. Instead of embedding controls into each agent, the integration enables organizations to govern interactions at a single layer and apply policies consistently across all agents.

Protect your AI initiatives on Google Cloud with F5

As AI adoption matures, organizations need a runtime security solution that provides robust protection and empowers teams to adapt security as needs change. F5 AI Guardrails provides cutting-edge threat protection for AI on Google Cloud, with customizable controls to enforce consistent security and governance across all models, applications, and agents.

Whether you're running Gemini, third-party models, or custom AI workloads on Google Cloud, F5 is ready to help you build a production-ready governance and security architecture that protects your initiatives at scale.

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Beth McElroySr. Alliances Manager | F5

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