AI Security for Apps

Protect your AI applications from abuse and keep AI behavior in-policy

Confidently deploy AI with AI Security for Apps (formerly Firewall for AI). Secure any public-facing AI apps and agents against threats like prompt injections, jailbreaking, unsafe topics, and other AI-native risks. Discover shadow AI in your environment, prevent data leakage, and keep interactions in-policy.

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Benefits of AI Security for Apps

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Model-agnostic AI security

Protect interactions with any AI model, wherever it is hosted–no vendor lock-in, full flexibility to innovate.

AI security without performance tradeoffs
AI security without performance tradeoffs

Run detections closest to the end-user, leveraging our hyper-distributed GPU cloud.

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Identify shadow AI

Automatically discover AI endpoints across your web properties, so your developers can launch AI projects securely.

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Integrated app and AI security

Combine AI-specific signals with powerful detections from across the Cloudflare platform to stop multi-layered threats.

How it works

Protect AI applications at the edge

AI Security for Apps leverages Cloudflare’s global network to analyze and filter traffic to your AI applications in real time. Inspect incoming requests to identify and block threats before they reach your application. Running detections at the edge means there’s no latency penalty to filter malicious traffic.

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ANALYST RECOGNITION

What top analysts say

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Cloudflare named a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1 2025” report
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Cloudflare named a Challenger in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
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What our customers are saying

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Most of Newfold Digital's teams are putting in their own Generative AI safeguards, but everybody is innovating so quickly that there are inevitably going to be some gaps eventually. AI Security for Apps is a unified security layer that can automatically discover, label, and protect all of the AI endpoints we use across all these projects to serve as a fail safe.

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Top Firewall for AI use cases

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Discover shadow AI endpoints

Identify and label LLM-powered API endpoints continuously, surfacing shadow AI.

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Stop abuse against AI

Prevent users, attackers, and bots from misusing or abusing your AI apps and agents.

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Keep behavior in-policy

Avoid brand reputation risk by preventing AI from going “off script."

Helping organizations worldwide optimize and secure their applications

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DevOps
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Afghanistan
Aland Islands
Albania
Algeria
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Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Bouvet Island
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
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Central African Republic
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China
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Colombia
Comoros
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Lao People's Democratic Republic
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New Caledonia
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Niger
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Russian Federation
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
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Saudi Arabia
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Serbia
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