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New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026

Several cybersecurity vendors have announced new product releases and enhancements this week, focusing on areas such as AI security, DDoS protection, security automation, and network segmentation. F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, and Tufin have all introduced updates to their respective platforms.

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Several cybersecurity vendors have announced new product releases and enhancements this week, focusing on areas such as AI security, DDoS protection, security automation, and network segmentation. F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, and Tufin have all introduced updates to their respective platforms.

F5 Networks has enhanced its AI Gateway, integrating it into the F5 AI Security Platform. This update aims to provide a unified control plane for enterprises to manage access and usage of AI models, agents, and tools. The enhanced gateway is designed to enforce policies on every AI request, helping organizations optimize the economics of AI at scale while controlling costs and ensuring security. A dashboard called F5 AI Guardrails is part of this solution.

Netscout has expanded its Adaptive DDoS Protection (ADP) solution to include outbound attack mitigation. This extension allows service providers to automatically detect and mitigate DDoS attack traffic originating from within their networks. By shifting protection towards the source of attacks, Netscout intends to help operators prevent compromised subscriber devices from consuming network capacity, disrupting their own operations, and launching attacks against other organizations and customers across the internet.

Intezer has introduced "Workflows," a native automation and response builder integrated directly into its platform. This feature enables security teams to create and customize response workflows within the same environment where alerts are triaged and investigated. The goal is to allow organizations to automate post-investigation actions without the need for a separate Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) system.

Tufin has released Tufin Orchestration Suite (TOS) 5.3, which aims to simplify security operations and maintain consistent control across complex multi-vendor, hybrid environments. Alongside this platform update, Tufin also launched its AI-powered Segmentation Intelligence solution. This new solution continuously analyzes an organization’s segmentation policies to understand their intent, identify policy gaps and drift, and recommend actions to address these issues.

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