F5 / Shape Security
full-suite · F5 · public (FFIV)
Marketing claims
No claim captured yet.
Claim archaeology — what has been marketed, and when
Monthly Wayback snapshots of the 2 pages listed below, read back to 2019. A number reaches this timeline only after the sentence around it was read and judged to be F5 / Shape Security describing its own product. Those judgements were made by an AI model (claude-opus-5) and have not yet been checked by a person. Every one is published with the quote it was made from and the reason it was made, so you can check it against the archived page yourself. Numbers that turned out to be customer case studies, uptime SLAs or traffic-composition stats are listed further down — recorded, not published. Nothing is inferred between two dated snapshots.
No claim we could publish as F5 / Shape Security describing its own product has been found in any of the 60 months we were able to read on the pages we track, out of 92 probed between 2019-01 and 2026-08. That is a statement about these pages only — see the list below.
No publishable claim was found on these pages for: detection accuracy, coverage, false-positive rate, decision latency. Numbers we found and held back are listed below.
Our extractor pulled these numbers out of the same snapshots. Each was held back: a number bound to a metric is not automatically the vendor claiming a capability, and treating it as one would score F5 / Shape Security against something it never said.
| Number | Seen | What it actually is | Archived |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | 2022-05 – 2024-06 26 months | not a vendor claim the title of a named customer case study, describing one customer's result rather than F5's detection rate…an Assist from F5 › VegNonVeg Saves Sneakerheads from Harmful Bots with F5 › Q2 Uses Security Automation to Block 97% of Malicious Traffic with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense › Deltatech Gaming Ltd. Delivers More Secure Online… | link |
| 100% | 2022-02 – 2022-04 3 months | not a vendor claim describes the service model - a fully managed service - and is not a detection number at all…integrate, and deliver the experience of the trusted Distributed Cloud Bot Defense solution. Fully managed service A 100% fully managed service with exclusively dedicated resources for individual clients. Includes dedicated human… | link |
| Page | Era | Months probed | Months read |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.f5.com/cloud/products/bot-defense 2019-01 – 2026-08 | current | 92 | 29 |
| www.shapesecurity.com/ 2019-01 – 2026-08 | pre-acquisition domain | 92 | 31 |
“Months read” counts snapshots we actually retrieved and searched.
Sanctioned test surfaces
| Surface | Type | Tier | Basis |
|---|
A — vendor invites testing · B — our own deployment · C — passive observation
Our test results
No sanctioned runs recorded yet.
Real-world challenge rate (passive, anonymized)
Across 2 sites detected running F5 / Shape Security, this is what a default automated client met:
ServedChallengedBlocked
Challenge rate 50.0% — 95% CI 9–91% (±41pp, n=2). A wide interval means a small sample; read it accordingly.
Site identities are not published. This measures whether a vanilla client is challenged — no bypass performed.
⚠ Only 2 site(s) measured — too small a sample to draw a reliable rate from; shown for completeness.
Cited external benchmarks
None cited yet.