Akamai Firewall for AI Enables Secure AI Applications with Advanced Threat Protection
Akamai's latest solutions use AI to strengthen security while also protecting businesses from AI-driven threats
As AI rapidly transforms industries, organizations are quickly deploying large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, and other emerging tools. However, these innovations introduce new security vulnerabilities, including adversarial attacks, model extraction, API abuse, and large-scale data scraping — threats that existing web application firewalls (WAFs) are not designed to mitigate. Combined with other new enhancements such as API LLM Discovery, Akamai Firewall for AI provides customers with a holistic set of AI-driven capabilities.
"Traditional security solutions do not stop AI threats," said
Introducing Firewall for AI: Defending AI models from emerging threats
AI models contain valuable proprietary knowledge and sensitive datasets, making them prime targets for attackers. Akamai Firewall for AI addresses this as a purpose-built security solution designed to protect AI-powered applications, LLMs, and AI-driven APIs from emerging cyberthreats. By securing inbound AI queries and outbound AI responses, the firewall closes security gaps that generative AI technologies introduce.
Key features of Firewall for AI include:
- Multilayered protection: Blocks adversarial inputs, unauthorized queries, and large-scale data scraping to prevent model manipulation and data exfiltration.
- Real-time AI threat detection: Uses adaptive security rules to dynamically respond to evolving AI-based attacks, including prompt injection and model exploitation.
- Compliance and data protection: Helps ensure AI-generated outputs remain safe and align with regulatory and industry standards.
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Flexible deployment options: Deploys via Akamai edge,
REST API , or reverse proxy, enabling seamless integration into existing security frameworks. - Proactive risk mitigation: Filters AI outputs to prevent toxic content, hallucinations, and unauthorized data leaks.
Expanding AI-driven security capabilities
To further protect customer AI deployments and empower secure AI adoption, Akamai is also announcing 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 to prevent unauthorized access and abuse.
To learn more about these products, please visit our Firewall for AI page or stop by Akamai's booth N-6245 at this year's
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