By : Bakinam Khaled

F5, the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, will use GITEX Global 2025 to highlight its ability to completely converge app, API, and AI security with industry leading, high-performance application delivery and traffic management.

With only 2% of organizations “highly ready” to scale AI securely, according to F5’s 2025 State of AI Application Strategy Report, the need for an integrated approach has never been clearer.

The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) is central to addressing and optimising the opportunities ahead. Announced earlier this year, it is the industry’s most advanced solution to help organizations secure and deliver all applications, including those powered by AI, and address the complexities of hybrid multicloud infrastructures and their ever-evolving security and performance challenges.

“At GITEX Global, we’ll highlight how the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform can consolidate all critical services required for ensuring that every app and API – from the edge to the cloud – benefits from unparalleled protection, reliability and availability,” said Mohammed Abukhater, Regional Vice President for the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa at F5.

  “This includes consistent, comprehensive security to addresses the complex cyber threats of today and tomorrow, as well as high availability and intelligent orchestration to ensure performance for even the most intensive workloads.”

Last month, F5 bolstered its ADSP capabilities by closing the acquisition of CalypsoAI, a pioneer in enterprise AI security. CalypsoAI’s platform brings real time AI threat defense, red teaming at scale, and data security capabilities to enterprises deploying generative and agentic AI. These capabilities will be integrated into ADSP to provide a more comprehensive solution for securing AI inference.

“Enterprises are rapidly embedding AI into products and operations, but the new AI stack—spanning applications, agents, APIs, models, and data stores—creates a highly dynamic attack surface,” said Abukhater. “Traditional controls are not keeping pace with sophisticated new threats, while mounting regulatory pressure and the spread of shadow AI heighten risk. Increasingly, security teams need a purpose built, model agnostic approach that sets guardrails for how AI interacts with data, users, and threats, and provides centralized visibility across their infrastructure.”

Anticipating post quantum cryptography

F5 will also highlight its post-quantum cryptography readiness at the show. F5 is simplifying the shift to quantum-safe protections as the leading vendor providing a fully integrated, scalable platform for both application delivery and security. With comprehensive PQC support for both server-side and client-side encryption—and seamless integration across hybrid, multicloud, and legacy environments—the platform-based approach protects organizations’ apps, APIs, and data while optimizing performance.

“By combining classical encryption with PQC, customers benefit from interoperability and phased system upgrades without business disruptions. F5 solutions also offer detailed insights into encrypted traffic, enhancing threat detection even during post-quantum cryptography transitions,” added Abukhater.