Cato AI Firewall

Cato AI-Firewall protects homegrown AI applications and agents from runtime attacks before they can impact users, systems, or data. Delivered through Cato’s converged, cloud-native architecture, it defends against the full range of AI runtime threats with low latency and a consistently low false-positive rate.

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Cato AI Firewall Capabilities

Threat Detection & Response

Cato AI-FW analyzes all AI interactions in real time to detect and block known and unknown threats targeting LLMs, agents, and AI-powered applications. Its broad coverage includes evasive attacks designed to bypass standard controls, ensuring organizations stay ahead of emerging adversarial techniques.

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Security & Compliance Guardrails

AI-FW guardrails prevent risky or non-compliant AI behavior, aligning runtime activity with leading frameworks such as the EU AI Act, NIST RMF, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. This enables governance teams to operationalize compliance with confidence and consistency.

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Enterprise Workflows

With an API-first approach, AI-FW secures AI applications throughout their lifecycle. Security, AI, and governance teams can integrate protection into CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and production systems-ensuring scalable runtime protection across large or distributed AI deployments.

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Secure Your Homegrown Agents

AI-FW supports leading agentic AI development frameworks, providing deep observability and runtime protection for agent-driven applications. This ensures autonomous workflows remain secure, predictable, and aligned with enterprise policy.

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Cato AI Firewall Deployment Options

Flexible Deployment Options for Every Use Case

AI-FW adapts to any architecture with lightweight, enterprise-ready deployment options. Integrate through a model-agnostic AI gateway to apply consistent guardrails across all LLM traffic. Enable inline protection with a simple one-line configuration through supported AI gateways. Use the out-of-band Detection API when asynchronous analysis is required. And for environments with strict latency or data-residency needs, deploy on-prem to keep AI interactions local while still enforcing full runtime protection.

The Strategic Benefits of a True SASE Platform

Architected from the ground up as a true cloud-native SASE platform, all Cato’s security capabilities, today and in the future, leverage the global distribution, massive scalability, advanced resiliency, autonomous life cycle management, and consistent management model of the Cato platform.

Consistent Policy Enforcement

Cato extends all security capabilities globally to deliver consistent policy enforcement everywhere and to everyone, from the largest datacenters down to a single user device.

Scalable and Resilient Protection

Cato scales to inspect multi-gig traffic streams with full TLS decryption and across all security capabilities, and can automatically recover from service component failures to ensure continuous security protection.

Autonomous Life Cycle Management

Cato ensures the SASE cloud platform maintains optimal security posture, 99.999% service availability, and low-latency security processing for all users and locations, without any customer involvement.

Single Pane of Glass

Cato provides a single pane of glass to consistently manage all security and networking capabilities including configuration, analytics, troubleshooting, and incident detection and response. Unified management model eases new capabilities adoption by IT and the business.

“We ran a breach-and-attack simulator on Cato, Infection rates and lateral movement just dropped while detection rates soared. These were key factors in trusting Cato security.”

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