Craig Alberino is the CEO and Founder of LangSmart, which provides Smartflow — the enterprise AI gateway, firewall, and control plane for Fortune 500 companies.
AI gateways are at a crossroads. As adoption scales toward the 70% mark projected by analysts for 2028, the industry is grappling with a lack of transparency. While marketing claims of “20x speedup” are common, the technical reality of running these systems in production – especially within highly regulated on-premises environments
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AI Firewall Guide: What is an AI firewall and how is it different from a WAF? The enterprise guide to prompt injection defense, PII filtering, OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage, and on-premise deployment.
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AI Gateway Guide: What is an enterprise AI gateway and why can't traditional API gateways handle AI traffic? The definitive guide to multi-provider routing, cost governance, semantic caching, and evaluation criteria.
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AI Control Plane Guide: What is an AI control plane and why does Forrester call it the next infrastructure requirement? The enterprise guide to centralized AI governance, agent oversight, and compliance enforcement.