Dive into Basic Prompt Guardrails with kgateway

Earlier this year, Solo.io’s Field CTO, Christian Posta, posted this article Navigating DeepSeek R1, Security Concerns, and Guardrails which provided the following diagram that depicts how an AI Gateway can play a part in a “defense in depth” strategy. By implementing this intermediary layer outside of the application code, platform owners gain a new layer to enforce security and policy, act as an enforcement point for all traffic flow, and most importantly act as a “kill switch” to protect the system should a critical vulnerability be discovered (rather than ask all application teams to…