AI Runtime Security: real-time protection for AI apps and agents
Detect and block AI-specific threats that traditional security cannot see, in live environments. Integrate without friction into your containers, applications and cloud infrastructure.
AI risk increases at deployment
AI apps are compound systems that connect models, plugins, data sources, agents and external services, all interacting dynamically at runtime. Traditional security tools do not understand prompt- and response-level interactions, so they miss the risks that only emerge in production.
Prisma AIRS AI Runtime Security monitors AI traffic (prompts, responses and data flows) at runtime and stops AI-specific threats in real time. It protects interactions between apps, models, users, agents, plugins and external systems without disrupting performance or developer workflows. With the fully managed option, enterprise-grade protection can be enabled without managing infrastructure.
Comprehensive runtime protection for AI systems
Real-time threat prevention
Block AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, malicious URLs and poisoned content while apps are live.
Models, data and traffic together
Apply consistent protection across apps, models, datasets and runtime communications to close gaps in compound systems.
Ecosystem discovery
Discover AI apps, models, users, datasets and communication paths across cloud environments.
Sessions view
Inspect sessions with violations and every malicious attempt against your AI apps and agents.
Violations view
Analyse every blocked prompt by content type, threat category and severity.
Policy management
Use the insights gathered to define runtime security profiles and custom topics that strengthen your defences.
Flexible deployment options
AI Runtime Security is available as a fully managed service, as a software firewall in cloud environments or through API-based integration. Microperimeter redirects workload traffic to the NGFW, and cluster deployment on KVM and single-image deployment profiles are supported.
AI Runtime Security 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-runtime-security
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Learn moreFrequently asked questions
Which threats does AI Runtime Security block?
It detects and blocks AI-specific threats at runtime, including prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, malicious URLs, poisoned content, sensitive data leakage and unsafe agent actions.
Does it affect application performance?
It is designed to inspect prompt-response traffic without disrupting developer workflows or app performance. We size it with you based on your traffic volume.
How does AI Runtime Security differ from AI Gateway?
AI Runtime Security inspects live AI traffic for threats. AI Gateway is the control plane that additionally manages model access, routing, identity and cost. The two can be used together.
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