Prisma AIRS AI Gateway: the control plane for enterprise AI
Discover, govern and secure every AI activity in your enterprise. Route coding assistants, enterprise agents and copilots through one secure gateway.
AI is moving faster than you can govern it
When teams start using different models, providers and tools on their own, three problems appear: you cannot see which AI is in use or what it costs; interactions can bypass policies and expose sensitive data; and agents act across systems without clear identity, permissions or accountability.
Prisma AIRS AI Gateway is an independent control plane in front of the traffic going to LLMs, MCP servers, APIs and enterprise services. It intercepts and optimises agentic traffic and inspects communications to protect agents from attacks. Palo Alto Networks was named a “Company to Beat” in AI security platforms for the second consecutive time in the June 2026 Gartner® AI Vendor Race.
Built for the AI enterprise
Observability
See which team uses which model, how often and at what cost, in one dashboard.
Governance
Define model and provider access, usage quotas and approved tools with central policies.
Universal API
Connect apps to different models through one API so switching providers needs no code changes.
Operational controls
Cut cost with Signals and Smart Routing, sending each request to the best-fit model for its intent and complexity.
Identity verification
Decouple agent permissions from human credentials and enforce least privilege per agent.
Runtime security
Inspect requests and responses for prompt injection, concealed instructions and sensitive data leakage.
Use cases
- Coding assistants: help developers build faster without letting source code or secrets leak.
- Enterprise agents: put agents to work with full accountability; every tool call passes policy and audit.
- Copilots: give employees AI productivity without losing control of data or cost.
MCP guardrails
AI Gateway inspects MCP traffic in both directions: it blocks concealed instructions in tool inputs, redacts sensitive data from outputs and enforces access policies, bringing prompts and tool calls under one security framework.
AI Gateway with Albisec
As a Palo Alto Networks partner, we run AI security projects end to end, from discovery to production.
- An initial assessment that inventories your AI applications, agents and models
- Selection and licensing of the Prisma AIRS components that fit your use cases
- Deployment, policy design and integration with your existing NGFW, Prisma Access and Cortex environment
- 24/7 support, periodic policy reviews and reporting after go-live
Official product page:paloaltonetworks.com/ai-security/ai-gateway
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Learn moreFrequently asked questions
What is an AI gateway and why is it needed?
An AI gateway is a central point that manages traffic between apps and agents and the models, MCP servers and tools they use. It makes AI usage visible, enforces policy in one place and provides identity and security controls that the model itself cannot override.
How does AI Gateway reduce AI costs?
Signals assesses each request’s intent and complexity, and Smart Routing sends it to the model that best fits your cost, quality and speed targets. Real-time analytics track savings, latency and cache efficiency.
Which model providers are supported?
AI Gateway supports the major commercial model providers as well as decision models, and the list keeps growing. We can confirm current compatibility for your project.
Talk to our experts about your Palo Alto Networks project
A new deployment, a firewall migration or a support contract: tell us what you need and we will map out the right path with a free initial assessment.