Introducing AI Assistant for F5 Distributed Cloud, F5 NGINX One and BIG-IP

F5 empowers the SecOps and NetOps teams by simplifying operations and allowing users to better exploit the wealth of information at their disposal across all F5 platforms: F5 Distributed Cloud, F5 NGINX One, and BIG-IP.

Starting with F5 Distributed Cloud Web App and API protection solution, it is important to note the main challenges SecOps teams are facing in maintaining complex WAAP solutions:

• Understanding the security posture of every application protected by the WAAP
• Availability of customizable views of security analytics for each particular application, as the threats facing them might not be the same
• Logs and security events overload, making the availability of an "expert" tool almost mandatory
• Lack of automatically-generated suggestions for improving the security posture, as this reduces the amount of time SecOps teams have to spend on research, vendor-specific configuration

Similarly, NetOps teams are challenged by growing estates, increasingly fragmented environments using different technologies, and sheer complexity. 

Distributed Cloud AI Assistant helps to reduce these complexities and enable the users to quickly see the state of their resources, understand the security events and overall security posture, and also provides users with suggestions on how to further improve the security posture of their estate.

NGINX One is another product that boosts the efficiency and productivity of DevSecOps with the help of NGINX’s AI Assistant, focusing on explaining complex configurations and offering a guided configuration mode that speeds up development tremendously.

The upcoming F5 BIG-IP AI Assistant will help with one of the most challenging tasks when configuring the BIG-IP platform: creating and maintaining iRules. AI Assistant will help BIG-IP administrators by analyzing, generating, and optimizing iRules, shielding the user from the complexities associated with traffic management scripting.  

AI Assistant at work across all these platforms:

Conclusion:

F5 AI Assistant hugely improves SecOps and NetOps speed across all F5 platforms, by solving the complexities around configuration, analytics, log interpretation, and scripting.