Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced on April 29, 2025, the launch of Firewall for AI, a new solution providing multilayered protection for AI applications. This innovative firewall is designed to defend large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, and AI-driven APIs against emerging threats such as unauthorized queries, adversarial inputs, model extraction, API abuse, and large-scale data-scraping attempts. Traditional web application firewalls (WAFs) are not designed to mitigate these novel vulnerabilities introduced by AI.
Firewall for AI secures both inbound AI queries and outbound AI responses, effectively closing security gaps that generative AI technologies introduce. Key features include AI model protection, data leak prevention, and API LLM Discovery, an enhancement to the Akamai API Security platform that automatically discovers GenAI and LLM API endpoints, categorizes them, and continuously updates security policies.
Rupesh Chokshi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Application Security, Akamai, stated that AI security must be a key enabler as enterprises embrace the AI era. He emphasized that Firewall for AI is a "game changer" for any enterprise adopting AI, ensuring that enterprise models, data, and intellectual property are protected without compromising security or performance.
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