The "Samsung Moment"
It is the story that scared every CISO in the world. Engineers at Samsung pasted proprietary source code into ChatGPT to ask for a fix. And just like that, confidential IP became part of the training data for a public model.
The knee-jerk reaction for most enterprises was: “Block ChatGPT.” But blocking doesn’t work. We call this “Shadow AI.” If you block the tool, employees will just open it on their personal phone, paste the data, and email the answer back to themselves. You lose all visibility.
The solution isn’t to block the traffic. It is to scrub the traffic. You need an AI Gateway.
What is an AI Gateway?
Think of an AI Gateway as a “Customs Checkpoint” for your data. Instead of your developers calling the OpenAI API directly (api.openai.com), they call your internal Gateway (ai.mycompany.internal).
This Gateway acts as a Proxy. It sits between your applications and the public LLMs. Because you control the Gateway, you control the data.
The "PII Scrubber" (Redaction)
The most critical feature of the Gateway is Real-Time Redaction. Before the prompt leaves your secure VPC, the Gateway scans it for sensitive patterns (Credit Cards, SSNs, Emails, API Keys).
User Prompt: “Fix this code for user
john@example.com.”Gateway Action: Detects email. Replaces with token.
Sent to OpenAI: “Fix this code for user
<EMAIL_ID_1>.”
The LLM fixes the code (it doesn’t need the real email to do the logic). The Gateway receives the answer, puts the email back in (optional), and returns it to the user. Result: OpenAI never saw the PII.
Is your data leaking? Do you have visibility into what your employees are sending to AI?
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Model Agnostic Routing
There is a strategic benefit to the Gateway beyond security: No Vendor Lock-in. If you hardcode OpenAI SDKs into 50 different applications, migrating to Claude (Anthropic) or Llama 3 is a nightmare. With a Gateway, you change the destination in one place. You can route simple queries to a cheaper model (Haiku/Llama) and complex queries to a smart model (GPT-4), saving 60% on costs instantly.
Conclusion: Governance Enables Speed Security is often seen as a blocker. But in the age of AI, Governance is an Accelerator. If you have an AI Gateway that guarantees no PII leakage, you can approve internal AI projects in days, not months.
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Understanding that “Blocking doesn’t work” is step one. Step two is implementing the technical controls to scrub data before it leaves your VPC.
We use a proprietary AI Gateway Framework at GYSP to help enterprises deploy PII redaction, rate limiting, and audit logging for their LLM traffic.
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