F5 and Forcepoint have announced a new strategic partnership designed to secure artificial intelligence systems across their entire lifecycle from the moment data is created, discovered, and classified, through to runtime operations and continuous assurance. The collaboration aims to help enterprises deploy AI at scale without compromising data security, model integrity, or governance standards.
As organizations accelerate adoption of copilots, automated workflows, and AI-driven applications, many are struggling to manage the growing security risks these systems introduce. Sensitive data is frequently scattered across cloud, SaaS, and on‑premise environments, making it difficult to track how it enters and moves through AI models. At the same time, traditional security controls often operate in silos, creating blind spots between data governance, application security, and real‑time AI behavior.
“Enterprises are moving AI initiatives from experimentation to production faster than most security programs can adapt.”
— John Maddison, Chief Marketing Officer, F5
The partnership brings together Forcepoint’s AI-native Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) capabilities with F5’s AI Red Teaming and AI Guardrails technologies within the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP). The combined solution helps organizations classify and prioritize sensitive data, enforce access and usage policies, and protect AI systems from threats such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, and unsafe model behavior.
Naveen Palavalli, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Forcepoint, said the partnership addresses a critical gap in the evolving AI threat landscape. “AI has fundamentally redefined data security, exposing static policies for what they are: inadequate. The threats AI brings require a new category for proactive data and AI risk mitigation, and our partnership is delivering on this today.”
By aligning data intelligence with runtime protections, the two companies aim to offer enterprises a continuous, adaptive security model. This approach gives security teams the ability to validate AI policies in real time, monitor for misuse, and maintain governance across APIs, gateways, models, and AI agents all without overhauling existing architectures.
F5 and Forcepoint will showcase the joint solution during RSA Conference week, with demonstrations available at the F5 booth and Forcepoint’s Experience Center in San Francisco.
