Lakera Guard

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Lakera secures GenAI apps and agents in real time—ultra-low latency, precision, and protection powered by the world’s largest AI red team.

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#AI Security#Generative AI#Real-time Protection#AI Red Teaming#Centralized Policy Control#Multimodal Coverage#Model-agnostic#High Scale#Low Latency#Low False Positive Rate#Risk Reduction#Adaptive Security

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Saas

Founded

2021

Company

Lakera

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About Lakera Guard

Lakera is an AI-native security platform designed to protect LLM-powered applications from various threats, including prompt injection attacks, hallucinations, data leakage, toxic language, and compliance violations. It offers runtime security, red teaming services, AI security training, and PII detection to ensure the safety and reliability of GenAI initiatives.

How to Use

Lakera offers several products and services. Lakera Guard can be integrated with a few lines of code to protect AI applications. Lakera Red provides risk-based GenAI red teaming. Lakera Gandalf offers AI security training. Lakera PII Detection prevents data leakage in ChatGPT.

Key Features

Prompt injection attack protection
Hallucination mitigation
Data leakage prevention
Toxic language detection
Real-time visibility of GenAI

Use Cases

and risks
Threat detection and response
Customizable guardrails for GenAI deployments
Multilingual threat detection (100+ languages)
Low-latency performance

Key Features

Real-time runtime protection for GenAI apps, agents, and MCPs

Prompt injection and jailbreak detection/prevention

Advanced PII detection and data loss prevention (DLP)

Ultra-low latency (sub-50 ms) with 0.01% production false positive rate

Multimodal and model-agnostic coverage across 100+ languages

Central policy control with no-code customization

AI red teaming with risk-based vulnerability management

Continuous threat intelligence from Gandalf’s 1M+ hackers and 35M+ attacks

API-first, cloud-native deployment (SaaS or self-hosted containers)

Easy integration and single-line code insertion

Pros & Cons

Pros

Ultra-low latency (sub-50 ms) for real-time protection without degrading user experience
Exceptionally low false positive rate (0.01% in production) with high detection accuracy
Multimodal and model-agnostic, supporting text and audio chatbots across any LLM provider
Scales effortlessly to 1M+ secured transactions per app/day
Reduces AI risks by 3–4 orders of magnitude with context-aware detection
No-code policy customization and easy integration with a single line of code
Continuously adapts to emerging GenAI threats without manual updates
Backed by the world's largest AI red team (Gandalf) with real-time threat intelligence

Best For

Enterprise product teams: Protect customer-facing chatbots from prompt injections, jailbreaks, and toxic content without degrading UX.AI platform engineers: Enforce centralized security policies across multiple LLM apps and agents via a single control plane.Security & compliance: Detect and prevent PII exposure and data exfiltration with advanced DLP and content moderation controls.Financial services: Secure multilingual GenAI workflows (e.g., Portuguese and Spanish markets) while meeting strict risk and regulatory requirements.Edtech providers: Protect tutoring assistants for children with safe content filtering and runtime guardrails.Support & CX leaders: Safeguard AI-driven support agents from tool misuse and indirect prompt attacks in live customer interactions.Data & ML engineers: Harden RAG pipelines and model endpoints against poisoning, leakage, and jailbreaking with real-time inspection.Voice/app developers: Secure multimodal chat and audio bots across any model with sub-50 ms latency.CISOs & risk teams: Continuously test defenses using Lakera’s AI red teaming (Gandalf) and prioritize remediation by business risk.IT operations: Scale securely to 1M+ transactions per app/day with SIEM integrations (e.g., Grafana, Splunk) and observability.