The Department of Homeland Security’s CISA Emergency Directive 26-01 dropped like a thunderclap this week, mandating agencies to identify and report all instances of F5 BIG-IP products within their networks by October 29th (summary) and December 3rd, 2025 (detailed inventory). For many security and compliance teams, those dates are tomorrow in infrastructure time. If you’re staring down those deadlines wondering how to discover F5 assets, extract version data, and produce a verifiable inventory ...