India, Sept. 21 -- AI agents are starting to interact with websites, apps and customer portals in ways that look very different from traditional bots. They can complete multi-step actions such as transactions, travel bookings and banking operations, often through APIs and at machine speed. That is putting pressure on security tools built around a simple question: bot or human?

F5 is responding with new capabilities for F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, combining persistent device intelligence with protections designed specifically for agentic AI. The goal is to help organisations make risk decisions based on behaviour, device context and the nature of the interaction rather than blocking automated traffic outright.

A key change is the m...