Insicon Cyber taps F5 to extend its AI security and governance practice

ANZ MSP and cybersecurity advisory firm Insicon Cyber (Insicon) has announced the extension of its AI security and governance practice with support from F5.

Insicon Cyber's AI Security and Governance practice was established in early 2025 and has been delivering ISO 42001 compliance projects, managed compliance programmes and board-level AI governance advisory to organisations across ANZ.

F5 AI Guardrails delivers runtime security for AI models and agents, providing real-time protection against prompt injection attacks, jailbreak attempts, and sensitive data exfiltration from AI outputs. The solution is model-agnostic and supports flexible deployment, enabling organisations to enforce adaptive AI security policies as their AI estate evolves.

F5 AI Red Team complements the guardrails capability with automated adversarial testing of AI systems at scale, identifying both obvious and obscure vulnerabilities across the AI attack surface. The pairing creates a continuous test-and-defend cycle: AI Red Team surfaces vulnerabilities, and AI Guardrails transforms those findings into threat-informed runtime controls.

Recently, Insicon completed its first joint AI security engagement with a large Australian organisation in the education sector, applying F5 AI Red Team and Guardrails capabilities to test and protect live AI applications in a complex, sensitive, and data-intensive environment.

“We have been helping organisations in ANZ build ISO 42001-aligned governance frameworks and managed compliance programmes since early 2025 – before most advisers had even named this as a practice area,” said Matt Miller, cofounder and chief executive at Insicon Cyber.

“Adding F5 AI Guardrails and Red Teaming means we can now go further. In the last six weeks we completed our first joint engagement, testing live AI applications for a large organisation in the education sector. That work confirmed what we already believed: the governance framework and the runtime security have to work together. One without the other leaves real gaps,” Miller continued.

"The AI trust gap is something every technology leader in Australia and New Zealand should take seriously. When only 4 per cent of Australians trust AI companies, the industry has a systemic credibility problem, and the organisations that solve it first will be the ones that succeed,” said Jason Baden, RVP for ANZ at F5.

“F5 AI Guardrails and AI Red Team were built to close this gap by giving enterprises genuine visibility and control over AI behaviour in production, and to surface vulnerabilities before they become incidents or headlines.”

F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team are available now as part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, and are already deployed at regulated financial services and healthcare organisations globally