# Introducing F5 AI Guardrails **URL:** \ **Category:** F5 Technical Articles\ **Tags:** security, ai\ **Created:** [January 14, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/introducing-f5-ai-guardrails/76804 "2026-01-14T15:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Valentin\_Tobi](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/valentin_tobi/32/5004_2.png) [@Valentin\_Tobi](https://community.f5.com/u/Valentin_Tobi)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/introducing-f5-ai-guardrails/76804/1 "2026-01-14T15:00:00Z")
Maintaining your security posture in the age of AI is one of the hottest topics in cybersecurity. Traditional measures fall short of the task: Web Application Firewalls are ineffective against prompt injections and jailbreak attacks; API Security can’t defend against attacks that comply with the API specs; and model guardrails are only partially effective, mainly due to slow adoption rates and slower reaction to new threats. F5 AI Guardrails, the newest addition (together with F5 AI Red Team) to the ADSP platform (F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform), is a runtime security platform that protects AI applications, models, and data from threats like prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage. Unlike traditional security controls like WAF and API Security but in a conceptually similar way to the model guardrails, it operates at the inference layer to block malicious inputs and outputs, preventing sensitive data exfiltration and policy violations, while adapting to new threats faster than traditional model training methods. F5 AI Guardrails can be delivered through the F5 SaaS platform or it can be self-hosted, either on public clouds using technologies such as EKS (AWS), AKS (Azure), GKE (Google) or on-prem, using Red Hat OpenShift. F5 AI Guardrails sits in front of AI models, inspecting user prompts and AI-generated responses, applying predefined or custom security policies and either blocks malicious activities or logs them for review. ![image_344977.png](https://d20hrnpixdzcsd.cloudfront.net/original/1X/4cd0bd4b7171d7cf2b4564331a828e9d3634e7ce.png) F5 AI Reference Architecture: > **[Explore the AI reference architecture](https://www.f5.com/resources/reference-architectures/ai-overview#architecture)** > > The following architecture is designed to help you understand and plan around the risks and considerations for deploying AI applications at scale. | Plan, secure, and scale AI deployments with a unified framework built for hybrid multicloud. Let’s see a quick introduction of F5 AI Guardrails: [![](https://d20hrnpixdzcsd.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/8/2895d3a548ab663ce5f06a09fb7cb114ecb38570.jpeg "Secure and Govern AI Systems with F5 AI Guardrails") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2RJRmRAbfU) Let’s now proceed with a deeper look at some of it’s core capabilities, with the help of some short demos: ## **Runtime Protection** F5 AI Guardrails inspects AI interactions in real-time to stop attacks like prompt injection and jailbreaking before they cause harm. [![](https://d20hrnpixdzcsd.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/c/fc92a8c025566f271ddf4e135c962f30cbf6e37c.jpeg "F5 AI Guardrails - Protecting from GenAI Jailbreaking") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFmArNo2Hk) ## **Data Security** F5 AI Guardrails prevent sensitive data (PII, proprietary info) from being leaked or misused by AI models [![](https://d20hrnpixdzcsd.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/b/2b533dbfb125838e364905771f88c8c1f63958f8.jpeg "F5 AI Guardrails - Securing PII in AI Agents, RAG and GenAI apps") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZDirRungw) ## **Regulatory Compliance** F5 AI Guardrails helps meet standards like GDPR and HIPAA through auditing, logging, and policy enforcement. [![](https://d20hrnpixdzcsd.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/4/c441f3c780a1cbdfaa091cd566937774d720777e.jpeg "F5 AI Guardrails - Compliance to EU Data Act") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXvCwb7cx48) ## **Custom Guardrails** A more advanced use case, but one the F5 AI Guardrails handles with ease. [![](https://d20hrnpixdzcsd.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62ae9e68367f74f79ca5d5defc6fa8991ef47850.jpeg "F5 AI Guardrails - Custom scanners to enforce policy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR34ycDExmk) ## **Conclusion** F5 AI Guardrails protects AI applications from threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks, detects and prevents data leakages, ensures regulatory compliance and quickly adapts as adversarial techniques evolve. For a quick introduction to the companion AI security technology that was recently released on the F5 ADSP platform, F5 AI Red Team, please check out the [following article](https://community.f5.com/topic/344978). ---
**Author:** ![Janibasha](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/janibasha/32/6607_2.png) [@Janibasha](https://community.f5.com/u/Janibasha)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/introducing-f5-ai-guardrails/76804/2 "2026-01-20T04:03:54Z")
Great detailed article covering the new F5 AI Guardrails 👌