F5

F5, Inc.

Vendor

F5 is an application delivery company, founded in Seattle in 1996 and listed on Nasdaq, and its equipment sits in front of applications rather than on endpoints: load balancing traffic, terminating encryption and enforcing policy at the point where users meet a service. Its security products grow out of that position. BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is the network firewall module within its BIG-IP platform, and BIG-IP Next Edge Firewall CNF is the container-native version for Kubernetes environments; alongside them sit its web application firewall, bot defence and API security products, and NGINX, the web server and proxy it acquired in 2019 and still publishes as open source. What F5 protects is the application side of a network, which is not what the endpoint laboratories test. Its rows here record the firewall products rather than comparative malware results.

Country: United States
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Year Established: 1996
Employees: 6,578
Customers: 23K organisations (2025)Source: F5, Inc. investor deck
Users: 100M users (2026)Vendor states: F5 solution brief — Protecting Mobile Apps Within Untrusted Environments
Revenue: $3.1B (2025)Vendor states: F5, Inc.
Website: https://www.f5.com
Status: Active

Support locations

Support in 42 countries on 6 continents, from 62 known locations

Headquarters · Seattle, United States Support location Country with support

North America3 countries · 10 locations: Canada · TorontoMexico · Guadalajara, Mexico CityUnited States · Boston, Boulder, New York, San Jose, Seattle, Spokane, Washington, DC
South America3 countries: Argentina · Buenos AiresBrazil · São PauloColombia · Bogota
Europe14 countries · 16 locations: Belgium · MachelenCzechia · PragueFinland · EspooFrance · SuresnesGermany · MunichIreland · Cork, DublinItaly · MilanNetherlands · UtrechtNorway · OsloPoland · WarsawSpain · MadridSweden · StockholmTürkiye · IstanbulUnited Kingdom · Addlestone, London
Asia17 countries · 24 locations: Bangladesh · DhakaChina · Beijing, Guangzhou, ShanghaiHong Kong SAR China · Hong KongIndia · Bangalore, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New DelhiIndonesia · JakartaIsrael · Ramat GanJapan · Osaka, TokyoMalaysia · Kuala LumpurPhilippines · ManilaQatar · DohaSaudi Arabia · RiyadhSingapore · SingaporeSouth Korea · SeoulTaiwan · TaipeiThailand · BangkokUnited Arab Emirates · DubaiVietnam · Hanoi
Africa3 countries: Egypt · CairoMorocco · CasablancaSouth Africa · Johannesburg
Oceania2 countries · 6 locations: Australia · Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, SydneyNew Zealand · Auckland

Where the vendor offers local support — a support centre, an office it lists, or a local support line (shown as the country alone) — from the vendor’s own site. Partners and resellers are not counted.

Products

Product	Category	Market	Platform & Version	Free / Paid
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)	Network Firewall	Enterprise, Service Provider	CloudHardware ApplianceVirtual Appliance	Paid
BIG-IP Next Edge Firewall CNF	Network Firewall	Service Provider	Container	Paid

Certifications

Common Criteria

CertifiedBIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)8 certificates (3 expired)

FIPS 140-3

CertifiedBIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)4 certificates

Recent test results

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Recent changes

2026-10-28New version: 2.4.2 BIG-IP Next Edge Firewall CNF
2026-10-28New version: 21.1.0.1 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
2026-10-21Users: 100M users (2026, from the vendor's website)
2026-10-20Users: 1.7B users (2026, from LLM estimation)
2026-10-20Price: price on request BIG-IP Next Edge Firewall CNF
2026-10-18Support location: Sydney, AU
2026-10-18Support location: Perth, AU
2026-10-18Support location: Melbourne, AU
2026-10-18Support location: Canberra, AU
2026-10-18Support location: Brisbane, AU
2026-10-18Support location: Hanoi, VN
2026-10-18Support location: Bangkok, TH
2026-10-18Support location: Taipei, TW
2026-10-18Support location: Manila, PH
2026-10-18Support location: Kuala Lumpur, MY

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