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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, April 21, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Akamai offers Firewall for AI, a purpose-built security product that inspects both the inputs sent to and outputs generated by customers' AI applications and large language models, detecting threats like prompt injection attacks, data leaks, and toxic content in real time. The product was announced in April 2025 and was in limited availability as of that date.
Details
Firewall for AI sits between users and a customer's deployed AI application or LLM, analyzing inbound prompts for prompt injection, jailbreaks, remote code execution attempts, and unauthorized queries, and reviewing AI-generated responses for data leakage, toxicity, hallucinations, and compliance violations. It can be deployed via Akamai's edge platform or through a REST API, covering cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Akamai also announced API LLM Discovery alongside it, which automatically discovers and inventories GenAI and LLM API endpoints within a customer's environment.
Products affected
Akamai Firewall for AIAkamai API SecurityAPI LLM Discovery
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Akamai Technologies: Akamai offers Firewall for AI, a purpose-built security product that inspects both the inputs sent to and outputs generated by customers' AI applications and large language models, detecting threats like prompt injection attacks, data leaks, and toxic content in real time. The product was announced in April 2025 and was in limited availability as of that date (data as of 2026-04-21) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/5f0bb62c-488e-4650-a1ec-dd9a4697bf9a. Accessed September 6, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/5f0bb62c-488e-4650-a1ec-dd9a4697bf9a
- Data as of
- April 21, 2026
- Last verified
- April 21, 2026
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