AI Runtime: Building Secure and Optimized AI Apps with F5 Guardrails & Red Teams

Welcome

In this lab, attendees will be introduced to F5’s AI Guardrails and AI RedTeam products, with a focus on real-time prompt and response scanning, policy customization, and custom scanner creation. Students will learn how to interpret findings, map them to actionable defenses, and test model weaknesses.

Objectives:

Gain a deeper understanding of F5’s AI Guardrails and AI RedTeam capabilities including: - Prompt attacks - Real‑time prompt and response scanning using default scanners

Lab & Tasks:

The next page (Introduction) will cover the lab environment, access, and lab variables.

Labs:

• Introduction: Building Secure and Optimized AI Apps with F5 Guardrails & Red Teams
  • Course/Lab Invitation
  • Accessing UDF (F5 Unified Demo Framework)
• Lab 1 - Prompt and Response Scanning
  • Task 1: Create project
  • Task 2: Real-time protection for prompts and responses
• Lab 2 – Creating custom guardrails
• Lab 3 - Red Team – Campaign Exploration
• Lab 4 - Red Team – Agentic Resistance Exploration
• Conclusion