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Generative AI Providers Rewriting the Rules of Automated Traffic – F5 Report

  • New F5 Labs report finds that over half of page requests for web content are now automated as use of LLM scrapers intensifies.
  • More than a third of login attempts in the technology industry are account takeover attacks.
  • Healthcare and hospitality are the most targeted industries on the web; entertainment is the most targeted on mobile.
David Warburton - F5

Dubai, UAE. April 7, 2025 –The rise of generative AI means that bots now access some types of web content more than humans, according to new research from F5.

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F5 expands its network presence in the United Arab Emirates to enhance regional connectivity and security for multicloud and edge environments

A new point of presence (PoP) site expands the global reach for F5 Distributed Cloud Services; a purpose-built cloud-native platform that connects and secures distributed applications, ensuring high performance and carrier-grade reliability.

F5 UAE Pop Launch

DUBAI, UAE. 12 September 2024. F5 has expanded its global network with a new point of presence (PoP) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Hybrid apps and AI drive sevenfold increase in organizations’ digital maturity levels

F5’s 2024 Digital Enterprise Maturity Index finds that more than a quarter of organizations are now classed as digitally mature

Digital “doers” characterized by a commitment to hybrid applications, automated systems and data observability

By contrast, the least digitally mature “dawdlers” have low levels of automation, limited plans for observability and less confidence in their ability to withstand threats

Lori MacVittie - F5

Dubai, UAE, AUGUST 12, 2024 –Digital transformation has accelerated markedly over the last year, with a sevenfold increase in organizations ranked at the highest level of digital maturity, new research from F5 shows.

For F5’s second Digital Enterprise Maturity Index (DEMI)report1, 713 responses from the 2024 State of Application Strategy Reportwere assessed against a set of six core technical capabilities2: infrastructure, app delivery, data, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) operations, observability and automation, and security.

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Three Things You Should Know about AI Applications

Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer

There are probably more than three things you should know, but let’s start with these three and go from there, shall we? 

First, it’s important to note that AI is real. Yes, it’s over-hyped. Yes, entire portfolios are being “AI-washed” in the same way everything suddenly became a “cloud” product over a decade ago. But it’s real according to the folks who know, which is to say decision makers in our 2024 State of AI Application Strategy research.

Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer

While most organizations (69%) are conducting research on technology and use cases, 43% say they have implemented AI at scale. That’s either generative or predictive. 

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