F5 Teams With WWT to Help Customers Accelerate AI Adoption Without Compromising Security

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, today announced enhanced support for WWT’s AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR). Built on practical experience and expert insights, ARMOR is a vendor-agnostic AI security framework delivered by World Wide Technology (WWT), leveraging a jointly built approach with NVIDIA and strengthened through real-world collaboration. Designed to secure AI deployments at every stage, it helps organizations better address the expanded attack surface created by hybrid AI platforms, where data moves constantly between environments, APIs, and new connection points.

The ARMOR framework conceptualizes an advanced, modular cybersecurity solution delivered by WWT to meet the needs of enterprises facing unprecedented growth in the rate, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks. It focuses on providing AI-powered threat detection, mitigation, and visibility while integrating with industry-leading solutions from the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP). This combination ensures that workloads are deployed and accessed safely and efficiently, no matter where they reside across multicloud environments.

“For organizations of any size, ARMOR provides a scalable framework that can be continuously refined as new partners and technologies join the ecosystem,” said Istvan Berko, Global Head of AI Cyber and Innovation at WWT. “By embedding security from chip-to-cloud and aligning with industry organizations and compliance mandates, ARMOR articulates an end-to-end AI security approach that provides comprehensive coverage over key IT domains.”

ARMOR is divided into six primary domains to ensure comprehensive, modular coverage of the full AI lifecycle, with “Cyber Resilience” acting as an additional umbrella. Each domain targets a distinct security challenge, enabling organizations to align their defenses with real-world threats, regulatory requirements, and operational maturity for scalable, resilient AI deployments. Within each domain, there are myriad use cases for a variety of F5 offerings, with notable examples included below:

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) aligns AI operations with regulatory, policy, and ethical standards for transparent and trustworthy AI systems. F5 AI Guardrails acts as a proxy for AI traffic, inspecting prompts and responses to prevent data leakage, mitigate prompt injection, and block other AI-targeted attacks. The solution also provides observability, logging, and traceability features such as watermarking to support compliance and security audits.