F5 AI Gateway - Secure, Deliver and Optimize GenAI Apps

Introduction

Artificial Intelligent (AI) has transformed the way we live and work, revolutionising industries and enhancing everyday life. By automating repetitive tasks and enabling data-driven decision-making, AI has unlocked unprecedented levels of innovation, efficiency, and productivity. For businesses, AI offers a significant competitive edge, streamlining operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving growth. However, with great opportunities comes great risks. AI introduces security vulnerabilities, including potential misuse, data breaches, and expanded attack surfaces. It is essential for businesses to recognize these challenges and adopt robust cybersecurity measures to mitigate risks. Moreover, AI is an investment-intensive technology, and its return on investment remains difficult to quantify (at least as of this writing). Without careful oversight and optimization, AI budgets can quickly spiral out of control. Embracing AI responsibly—balancing its benefits with its risks—ensures sustainable growth and resilience in an increasingly AI-driven world.

At F5, we offer a wide range of controls to safeguard your AI infrastructure, applicable not only to AI systems but to all IT environments. 

In this article and video demo, we will focus on the AI Gateway (AI GW), which provides runtime security and traffic governance. It’s worth noting that other controls, such as securing APIs—the backbone of any AI service—are equally critical. 

The F5 AI Gateway is designed to address specific challenges, such as those outlined in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. It features an extensible architecture with purpose-built processors and plugins, enhanced by a Software Development Kit (SDK) for custom use cases.

Here are those demo videos on F5 AI Gateways.

 

Traffic Management and Optimisation of LLM

AI Gateway function is more than just a security control tools. It play an important roles on cost optimization and traffic management. This video to demonstrate the value and capabilities of F5 AI Gateway on traffic management and optimization of LLM traffic to optimize resources, reduces costs, enhances user experience, and safeguards data privacy.

 

Securing LLM Applications

Demonstrate F5 AI GW capabilities to address some of the key concern raised in OWASP TOP 10 for LLM apps by leveraging native in-build AI processor.

 

Specific individual Demo Video.

Please do note that the following individual specific demo video is an excerpt of the overall Traffic management, Optimization and Security demo.

 

Identity Aware Model Routing

Demonstrate the capability of F5 AI Gateway to dynamically apply and steer LLM traffic policy according to user identity based on JSON Web Token (JWT) or header.

 

Language and Code Detection Routing

Demonstrate the capability of F5 AI Gateway to detect type of language input and steer according to the defined language model for better user experience and cost optimization. It also demonstrate code detection and steer the traffic to a local self-hosted model to prevent any unintentional code leakage to a SaaS-Managed model.

 

System Prompt Enforcement (Guardrail)

Showcase the system prompt capabilities of the F5 AI Gateway (AI GW) to ensure conversations remain contextually relevant. The AI Gateway enforces strict guardrails to prevent users from deviating from the intended purpose of the chatbot. This helps maintain the integrity of the system while preventing the misuse of AI resources

 

OWASP Top 10 LLM01 - Prompt Injection

Showcase Prompt Injection processor to address few key concern raised in OWASP TOP 10 for LLM apps especially on Prompt Injection concern. (LLM01)

 

OWASP Top 10 LLM02 - Sensitive Information Disclosure (PII)

Showcase PII Redactor processor to address key concern raise on sensitive information disclosure raise in OWASP TOP 10 for LLM apps (LLM02)

 

OWASP Top 10 LLM07 - System Prompt Leakage

Showcase System Prompt processor to address key concern raise on system prompt leakage raise in OWASP TOP 10 for LLM apps (LLM07)

Please reach out to F5 representative for further deep-dive information.