A10 Networks Levels Up AI Security and Performance
The world of AI is evolving at a breakneck pace, with organizations globally rushing to deploy new AI applications and build AI-ready data centers. But with this rapid advancement comes the need for ultra-high performance and robust cybersecurity to protect these new environments.
Enter A10 Networks. They’re stepping up to the plate, demonstrating new AI firewall and predictive performance capabilities at Interop Tokyo 2025. Their goal? To help prepare and protect your AI infrastructure.
Guarding Against AI and LLM Cyber Threats
A10 is rolling out new AI firewall capabilities designed to sit in front of APIs or URLs exposing large language models – whether custom-built or based on commercial solutions like OpenAI or Anthropic. These capabilities are built on edge-optimized architecture with GPU-enabled hardware, offering high-performance protection that can be easily added to any existing infrastructure.
What do these new capabilities do? They help you prevent, detect, and mitigate AI-level threats by allowing you to test your AI inference models against known vulnerabilities. A10’s proprietary LLM safeguarding techniques then help remove these vulnerabilities. The system can even detect AI-level threats like prompt injections and sensitive information disclosure by inspecting request and response traffic at the prompt level and enforcing necessary security policies.
Delivering Real-time AI and LLM Experiences
Beyond security, A10 Networks is also focusing on delivering high performance and resilience for AI and LLM-enabled applications. They achieve this by offloading processor-intensive tasks such as TLS/SSL decryption, caching, and optimizing traffic routing. They also provide actionable insights to maximize network availability and performance.
One of the coolest new features is early detection of network performance issues – think of it as an early warning system for your network. This helps identify potential congestion or capacity problems, allowing you to take proactive action before they become critical. The result? Less unscheduled downtime and optimized network performance. These predictive performance capabilities will run on A10 appliances powered by GPUs, meaning faster processing and the ability to quickly analyze vast amounts of data to spot anomalies ahead of time.
As Dhrupad Trivedi, president and CEO of A10 Networks, puts it, “With over 20 years of experience in securing and delivering applications, we are expanding our capabilities to deliver on these needs to provide resilience, high performance and security for AI and LLM infrastructures”.
These new AI security and infrastructure capabilities from A10 Networks are designed to simplify management, enhance threat detection, and ultimately deliver an optimal customer experience. With enterprises rapidly deploying and training AI and LLM inference models, addressing latency, security, and operational complexity is crucial. A10 Networks is clearly working to meet these demands.
