Indusface has unveiled AppTrana AI Shield, a purpose-built AI firewall designed to secure generative AI applications including customer-facing chatbots, internal copilots, and knowledge-base search tools. The solution addresses critical gaps left by traditional WAFs and API gateways, enabling organizations to deploy LLMs confidently without risking sensitive data exposure, regulatory violations, or brand damage.
As enterprises rapidly integrate large language models into customer service, analytics, and employee productivity tools, they create new attack surfaces that conventional web application firewalls cannot adequately protect. Prompt injection, retrieval abuse, automated probing, and sensitive data exfiltration have emerged as top concerns for security and compliance leaders.
AppTrana AI Shield directly counters these threats by enforcing granular, OWASP LLM Top 10-aligned policies while maintaining seamless user experiences.
The solution inspects every inbound prompt and outbound response in real time, blocking policy-violating queries and filtering high-risk or unapproved outputs before they reach users. Organizations gain centralized control across all AI endpoints with clear visibility and audit trails required for compliance.
A model-agnostic architecture allows seamless protection for any LLM—whether public, hosted, or private—using existing AppTrana onboarding workflows.
Ashish Tandon, Founder and CEO, Indusface, said: "Boards and leadership teams see GenAI as a way to transform how they serve customers and employees, but if these systems are misused, they can leak sensitive data such as PII, fuel fraud, and invite regulatory scrutiny. With AppTrana AI Shield, organizations can roll out AI features faster, while our team focuses on keeping sensitive data and critical workflows safe."
AppTrana AI Shield combines AI-specific risk detection with Indusface’s proven bot management capabilities. It automatically mitigates prompt storms, brute-force attacks, and scraping attempts while applying differentiated rate limits and access controls for legitimate users, internal tools, partners, and malicious automation.
Indusface security experts continuously tune policies, monitor traffic 24×7 for anomalies, and collaborate with customer teams to minimize false positives—all backed by comprehensive, audit-ready reports.
By delivering enterprise-grade GenAI security as a fully managed service, AppTrana AI Shield removes the burden of building specialized AI security teams from scratch.
About Indusface
Indusface is a leading application security SaaS company, securing over 6,500 customers across 95 countries with its award-winning platform. Backed by leading institutional investors, Indusface is a category leader in cloud WAAP, with repeated recognition from top analysts and industry platforms including Gartner, Forrester, GigaOm, and G2. The industry's only AI-powered, all-in-one AppSec platform helps businesses discover, detect, remediate, and protect web applications and APIs at internet scale, backed by a 100% uptime guarantee.
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