F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) has introduced F5 AI Guardrails integrated with Nvidia NeMo Guardrails, a solution designed to provide centralized security policy enforcement across enterprise AI applications. The product is generally available now, according to a company statement.

The integration separates security enforcement from the AI framework, allowing organizations to apply security inspection of prompts and large language model responses without modifying existing AI application code. F5 AI Guardrails handles detection of prompt injection, personally identifiable information exposure, data leakage, and harmful outputs, while Nvidia NeMo Guardrails provides the underlying safety and security framework.

The architecture allows the security layer and the AI framework to be updated or scaled independently. Organizations can change underlying language models or add new AI applications while maintaining consistent policy enforcement across environments.

"Enterprises do not have a shortage of AI applications. They have a shortage of consistent security and governance across them," said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. "This integration gives security teams a unified point to inspect AI traffic, enforce policy, and govern AI applications across their environments, while giving developers the freedom to keep building."

Ash Bhalgat, Senior Director of AI Networking and Security Solutions at Nvidia, said the integration "expands the range of protections customers can use to secure LLM prompts and responses as they move AI agents into production."

Equinix, Red Hat, and WWT also provided supporting statements in connection with the announcement. Red Hat noted the integration extends runtime protections to customers using the Red Hat AI Factory with Nvidia. Equinix said the collaboration extends security and policy enforcement across distributed environments.