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Lakera Guard

Enterprise LLM firewall defending against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data loss

★ 4.9 Audit Rating Freemium $0 / Usage Tier
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Platform Architecture & Compliance Scope

Lakera Guard is a real-time AI security engine that sits in front of LLM APIs. Powered by Gandalf (the world's largest prompt injection research database), Lakera analyzes incoming prompts in under 30ms to neutralize jailbreaks, system prompt exfiltration, and toxic inputs.

Compliance Strengths

  • ✓ Sub-30ms latency overhead for real-time streaming LLMs
  • ✓ Trained on millions of real-world crowd-sourced attack vectors
  • ✓ Simple single-API-call proxy integration

Tradeoffs & Scope Limitations

  • ✗ Can occasionally flag nuanced adversarial test prompts as false positives
  • ✗ Advanced customization requires enterprise tier

Audited Capabilities & Security Controls

  • • Direct & indirect prompt injection defense
  • • System prompt leakage prevention
  • • PII and secret detection in prompts
  • • Real-time threat analytics dashboard

Target Organization Profile

Product teams exposing customer-facing LLM agents, chatbots, and autonomous tools.

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