F5 grabs agentic AI startup Fletch to bolster security platform

“With the rise of APIs, microservices, and AI-driven workloads, ADCs have never been more critical. The deployment of modern, AI-driven workloads requires a solution that supports intelligent traffic management, provides robust security, and offers unified management across all environments,” said Kunal Anand, F5’s chief innovation officer, about ADSP. The platform supports a variety of security technologies, including a web application firewall, API protection, DDoS mitigation, and SSL/TLS traffic encryption.

Fletch’s technology uses a number of agents for gathering threat intelligence and offering analytical data. Adding that to the ADSP platform will help further reduce complexity and bring deeper insights, real-time threat intelligence, and proactive security recommendations, the vendor stated. Fletch’s agents are also part of Microsoft’s Security CoPilot ecosystem.

“Security teams are drowning in data, alerts, and logs,” wrote F5’s Anand wrote in a blog about the acquisition. “They need actionable context to reduce complexity and respond efficiently. By adding Fletch’s agentic AI capabilities to our platform, we can provide even deeper insights, real-time threat intelligence, and proactive security recommendations that empower teams to stay ahead of threats.”