AI gateway and firewall

Govern AI traffic
before it becomes action.

Cortega sits in the path of AI requests, responses, and tool calls. It gives enterprises one place to observe AI use, enforce policy, protect data, govern MCP tools, route models, control cost, and keep audit evidence on infrastructure they control.

When teams start searching

A gateway is not enough if AI can still act outside policy.

Most teams begin with a simple need: one endpoint for models, better routing, and visibility into cost. That is useful. The harder enterprise problem starts when AI touches regulated data, customer workflows, agents, MCP servers, internal tools, and employees using AI from many places.

Production agents

Control model calls, retrieval, tool access, approvals, and sensitive data movement before an agent action completes.

AI firewall controls

Block, redact, route, require approval, or record decisions based on identity, data category, model, provider, tool, department, and intent.

MCP tool governance

Bring MCP servers, tool definitions, permissions, and tool calls into the same policy and evidence model as LLM requests.

Employee AI use

Use Cortega Edge to extend governance to browsers, endpoints, assistants, and shadow AI paths across the enterprise.

Why consider Cortega

Control, evidence, and intelligence in one platform.

Need How Cortega answers
Governance without sending traffic to a vendor cloudDeploy on your infrastructure. Cortega governance does not need to see your data.
Policy before the callEnforce before requests, responses, or tool calls proceed instead of only logging after the fact.
Enterprise operationsUse SSO, RBAC, budgets, audit evidence, standards-oriented telemetry, central management, and distributed gateways.
Model and provider flexibilityUse commercial providers, private models, and local LLMs as first-class choices.
Security and compliance postureModel your intent, detect data and tool risk, record decisions, and improve posture over time.
Business visibilitySee what teams are doing with AI, what they are worried about, where quality changes, and where strategy differs from execution.
Gateway plus firewall

Built for Core and Edge AI traffic.

Cortega Core

Secure production AI systems

Govern AI applications, model gateways, agents, retrieval paths, and MCP toolchains used by products and internal services.

Policy before model and tool calls Provider routing and cost controls Sensitive data protection Audit-ready evidence
Cortega Edge

Govern enterprise AI use

Extend controls to employee AI usage across browsers, endpoints, assistants, shadow AI tools, and internal agent workflows.

Employee AI visibility Shadow AI policy Identity-linked activity Enterprise intelligence
Performance evidence

A gateway in the request path has to be fast.

We published our first measured performance note for one Cortega gateway instance. It shows the setup, the raw results, and what one gateway carried before larger scale-out tests.

25,000requests per second on one c9g.xlarge gateway instance
~2 msestimated median gateway overhead at that rate
100%success at every rate the tested c9g boxes carried
~$0.006per million requests for the three-node c9g setup
Read the performance statistics

Looking for an AI gateway or firewall?

Tell us what AI traffic you need to govern. We'll help map the first useful control point without asking you to redesign your AI stack.

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