F5 to introduce F5 Workforce AI Security for workforce AI policy control
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F5 said it plans to make F5 Workforce AI Security available as an agentless offering within the F5 AI Security Platform. The company’s update centers on visibility and policy control for how workforce AI activities unfold, including actions taken by AI agents on users’ behalf.
F5 linked the offering to a shift in enterprise AI use beyond prompts and queries, where AI assistants and coding agents can access enterprise systems, call tools, manipulate data, and act under permissions granted by users. F5 also referenced its 2026 State of Application Strategy Report, which said 66% of organizations permit AI to automatically adjust policies and configurations.
F5 Workforce AI Security was described as providing visibility and policy enforcement across workforce AI activity, covering employee access to AI services as well as agent actions. The planned capabilities include governing workforce AI use by discovering AI services in browsers and developer tools and applying controls by service, license tier, file upload, and data policy, and controlling agent actions before execution by inspecting and classifying tool calls across MCP servers and supported agent tools.
In addition, F5 said the offering would enforce policy in the interaction path by applying network-based controls across browsers, CLIs, coding agents, MCP clients, and agent harnesses, including self-built tools accessing public model APIs, without requiring another endpoint client and with integration into existing SASE environments. Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5, said, “Employees aren’t just asking AI questions anymore. They’re handing work to AI agents that can reach into enterprise systems, call tools, and change data on their behalf,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “Workforce AI Security applies intent-based guardrails in the network path to understand the context of AI interactions and enforce policy before risky actions occur. With this addition, the F5 AI Security Platform gives organizations one set of controls across how their workforce uses AI and how they build and deploy AI, wherever it runs.” F5 said the Workforce AI Security capability extends earlier AI Security Platform work introduced in June 2026 and AI Gateway capabilities added in August 2026.
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