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F5 completes acquisition of CalypsoAI, introduces F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team
Shawn Wormke Published September 29, 2025 Every new technology brings both opportunities and risks. AI is no different, bringing groundbreaking advancements including automating complex workflows, enhancing decision-making with predictive analytics, and creating realistic synthetic media. It also introduces vulnerabilities such as data breaches, model exploitation, and bias amplification.
F5 Targets AI Model Misuse With Proposed CalypsoAI Purchase
24 minutes ago bankinfosecurity Calypso’s Red-Teaming and Agentic Threat Tools Boost F5’s Application Security Edge Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • September 11, 2025 F5 plans to purchase an AI security startup led by a longtime Qualtrics executive to secure modern application environments in the context of emerging artificial intelligence workloads.
F5 and Red Hat Provide Platform for Securing and Monitoring AI
According to the 2025 F5 State of Application Strategy Report, 96% of organizations say they’re currently deploying AI models, and today’s models are more likely to directly support line-of-business decisions and employee productivity. Yet while AI promises enormous benefits, it also greatly expands the security and data management challenges that modern organizations already face.
NGINX Turns 20: Celebrating Two Decades of Web Innovation
Today marks an incredible milestone—NGINX's 20th birthday! Over the past two decades, NGINX has grown from an innovative open source project into a cornerstone of modern web infrastructure, application delivery, and security with F5 NGINX. This journey has been fueled by a passionate community and relentless focus on performance and innovation. From its humble beginnings in 2002, NGINX has been deeply rooted in the open source community.
Meetup Recap: NGINX’s Commitments to the Open Source Community
Last week, we hosted the NGINX community’s first San Jose, California meetup since the outbreak of COVID-19. It was great to see our Bay Area open source community in person and hear from our presenters. After an introduction by F5 NGINX General Manager Shawn Wormke, NGINX CTO and Co-Founder Maxim Konovalov detailed NGINX’s history – from the project’s “dark ages” through recent events. Building on that history, we looked to the future.
NGINX One: A SaaS Solution for Modern Application Management and Delivery
NGINX One will soon be available “as-a-service,” with a single license and a unified management console for enterprise-wide security, availability, observability, and scalability—with a friendly pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Shawn Wormke - NGINX
F5, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices‑based applications.
Aspen Mesh Supports Istio Joining CNCF as Open Source Technology
Aspen Mesh has been a contributor to Istio since 2017 and we support today’s announcement that Istio will be donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It has been amazing to see the growth, not only in the functionality and quality of the project but also in the diversity and participation of the community over the years. We are excited about the future and continuing our involvement and contributions to the project.
How to Achieve Engineering Efficiency with a Service Mesh
As the idea for Aspen Mesh was formulating in my mind, I had the opportunity to meet with a cable provider’s engineering and operations teams to discuss the challenges they had operating their microservice architecture. When we all gathered in the large, very corporate conference room and exchanged the normal introductions, I could see that something just wasn’t right with the folks in the room. They looked like they had been hit by a truck.
How to Achieve Engineering Efficiency with a Service Mesh
Aspen Mesh sponsored this post. Shawn Wormke Shawn’s passion for building small teams focused on bringing emerging technologies to market drove him to co-found and head Aspen Mesh as its incubation lead. With two decades of experience building application networking and security products in companies like Cisco, LineRate Systems and F5, he had seen enterprises transition from hardware to software as they demanded to be more agile.
Harnessing the Power of Microservices to Overcome an Uncertain Marketplace
According to PwC’s 23rd Annual Global CEO Survey, the outlook for 2020 can be summarized in one word—uncertainty. According to the survey, only 27% of CEOs are “very confident” in their prospects for revenue growth in 2020, a low level not seen since 2009. As organizations navigate their way through digital transformations, how can they leverage strategies and applications that help them overcome uncertainty, rather than causing more?
How A Service Mesh Can Make Application Delivery More Secure
What is the biggest business advantage that today’s companies have? Their level of agility. A business’s agility is what allows them to rapidly grow their revenue streams, respond to customer needs and defend against disruption. It is the need for agility that drives digital transformations and pushes companies to define new ways of working, develop new application architectures and embrace cloud and container technologies.
How Service Mesh Can Make Application Delivery More Secure
Aspen Mesh sponsored this post. Shawn Wormke Shawn’s passion for building small teams focused on bringing emerging technologies to market drove him to co-found and head Aspen Mesh as its incubation lead. With two decades of experience building application networking and security products in companies like Cisco, LineRate Systems and F5, he had seen enterprises transition from hardware to software as they demanded to be more agile.
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