Security Leadership Guide

AI Gateway โ€” the missing control plane for post-adoption AI

AI adoption has already happened; governance has not caught up. An AI gateway gives security leaders a single point to see, govern, protect and optimise every AI interaction โ€” from shadow AI to autonomous agents.

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assessment domains
12
questions
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use-case scenarios
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vendor bias
The post-adoption reality

Five problems you likely have right now

These are the symptoms of AI adoption that outpaces governance. Any security leader recognising two or more should evaluate a gateway as the consolidating control.


How it works

Anatomy of an AI gateway

A gateway inserts a single, policy-aware layer between applications and every model provider. Think of it as the DNS, WAF and API management of the AI era โ€” a choke point where security, cost and reliability controls converge.


Vendor-neutral

Which approach fits your organisation?

There is no single product shape. These three archetypes describe how AI traffic control is commonly delivered โ€” most organisations land on one, sometimes two.


What to look for

Capability matrix

The capabilities that matter when evaluating any AI gateway offering โ€” grouped by the outcome they deliver. Switch to the relation view to see how each capability connects to a governance outcome.


Use cases

How an AI gateway helps organisations

Real-world problem patterns, the gateway solution, and the outcome delivered.


The 2026-27 horizon

Emerging use cases to watch

As agentic AI scales, machine identities multiply and regulation lands, the gateway's role keeps expanding. These are the forward-looking use cases security leaders should have on their radar.


Readiness assessment

Where does your AI governance stand?

Answer a short series of questions across six domains to get a gateway readiness score, per-domain maturity, and a prioritised roadmap. Save the result to your reports for your leadership deck.