Gartner places F5 in AI application security emerging market report

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) has been placed in the Market Shapers quadrant of the Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security, published in September 2026, according to a company press release. F5 was one of two vendors placed in that quadrant position.

Gartner evaluates vendors in the report across two dimensions: potential for market disruption and potential to execute. Gartner noted that its publications represent the opinions of its research organization and do not constitute endorsements of any vendor or product.

F5 Chief Marketing Officer John Maddison said in a statement: "Enterprises are not running AI in a lab. They are running it inside regulated networks, behind APIs, and across agents that authenticate and act on their own. Enterprises cannot assemble a security posture from dozens of disparate point products."

The company reported that the number of customers purchasing F5 solutions for AI security doubled quarter-over-quarter in its third quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings results.

F5 also cited internal testing data, stating its AI Guardrails product demonstrated up to 98.4% security efficacy in independent testing. The company's AI Red Team tool tests systems against more than 140,000 attack patterns drawn from what F5 describes as an AI threat database.

F5's 2026 State of Application Strategy Report found that 88% of organizations surveyed had encountered at least one AI-related operational or security challenge, and 98% were preparing for agentic AI deployments.

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