AI Security with Cloudflare

Shadow AI is the use of unapproved AI tools by employees without IT or security oversight. The most common example is pasting confidential data (source code, contracts, customer records) into public LLMs like ChatGPT or Claude. Gartner estimates that 73% of employees use AI tools that have not been vetted or approved by their organisation. The risk is data leakage, compliance violations, and complete lack of audit trail.

Traditional API gateways manage routing and authentication. Cloudflare AI Gateway is purpose-built for LLM traffic: it logs every prompt and response, applies real-time DLP to detect sensitive data, enforces rate limits to control costs, caches responses to reduce latency, and provides content guardrails. It is a universal proxy compatible with 50+ LLM providers and requires minimal code changes to deploy.

Yes. AI Security for Apps scores every incoming request for prompt injection risk. It detects direct injections (jailbreak attempts), indirect injections (hidden instructions in external data), and adversarial prompts designed to manipulate model behaviour. Requests exceeding the risk threshold are blocked before they reach the LLM.

Cloudflare inspects the prompts and responses flowing through your AI applications in real time, flagging prompt injection, sensitive-data (PII) exposure and unsafe or jailbreak content before they reach your models or your users. At the network layer, AI-driven detection identifies and mitigates automated traffic and bots targeting your AI endpoints, with automated response rules. AI Gateway gives you full visibility and logging across every LLM call. Brixio designs, deploys and operates this detection and response configuration for your environment.

No. The recommended approach is not to block AI entirely but to govern it. Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway allows you to block unsanctioned AI tools while redirecting employees to approved, governed AI environments. This preserves productivity while ensuring data protection and compliance.

AI Gateway logs the identity of the requester, the AI provider, the timestamp, the prompt content, the response content, token usage, and cost. All logs can be exported to your SIEM. For organisations subject to GDPR or data residency requirements, Cloudflare Regional Services ensure logs remain within the chosen jurisdiction.

Brixio follows a phased approach: (1) AI usage audit to map current AI tool usage and data flows, (2) architecture design with policy definitions for Shadow AI control, AI Gateway configuration, and application protection, (3) deployment and testing, (4) documentation for compliance, (5) optional ongoing operations via managed services. Every configuration decision is documented for audit readiness.

Yes. AI Gateway supports both third-party LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral) and self-hosted models deployed on your infrastructure or in Cloudflare Workers AI. The same logging, DLP, and governance controls apply regardless of where the model runs.