Inside Falcon AI Gateway: One Control Point for AI Traffic
CrowdStrike has introduced the Falcon AI Gateway, a new tool designed to give security teams centralized control over the growing volume of AI traffic within their organizations.
As artificial intelligence agents evolve from simple question-answering to executing complex actions, the challenge of securing this activity has grown. Security teams can no longer rely solely on visibility; they need the ability to control AI traffic directly.
CrowdStrike has addressed this with the general availability of the Falcon AI Gateway. This new component extends the capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon sensor, routing AI traffic through a centralized gateway to inspect prompts, monitor usage, and enforce security policies.
Centralized control point
The new gateway provides a single control point for model access, usage, and security. It authenticates each request, routes it to the correct provider and model, and applies usage limits and Guardian policy both before the request reaches the provider and again when the response is returned.
Teams can block direct connections to model providers using their existing network controls and route approved applications and workloads through the Falcon AI Gateway. This ensures that all AI traffic reaching providers from these workloads has passed through CrowdStrike Guardian policy.
Make the approved path the only path.
The solution allows administrators to see traffic, models, tokens, and estimated spend in one place. It also adapts to existing workflows, as applications send requests to one gateway endpoint with a single gateway key, using the API formats they already support.
Security and policy enforcement
Security teams can control AI traffic by setting rate limits and budgets on requests, tokens, or estimated spend. These controls can be scoped by application, user, team, model, or provider, with application keys for services and shared workloads, and personal keys for individual attribution.
The gateway also inspects prompts and responses for risks such as prompt injection and sensitive data leakage. Because traffic flows through one point, the AI Kill Switch in Falcon Guardian can cut off agents' access to the model via the traffic routed through the gateway.
Falcon Guardian customers can find the new gateway in the Falcon console under Falcon Experiences > AI Gateway. Developers can connect an existing SDK or coding tool by changing the base URL to point at the gateway and using a gateway key.
Built for enterprise scale
CrowdStrike developed the Falcon AI Gateway for its own internal use first. The foundation came from running AI at scale inside the company, from the work behind CrowdStrike Charlotte AI to its internal AI Hub gateway, which has served tens of thousands of employees globally for years.
The company learned that most teams would rather not run a gateway themselves, so it is now offering the one it built for its own needs to Falcon Guardian customers. This approach unifies OS-level visibility, endpoint network inspection, and centralized gateway enforcement for environments beyond sensor coverage.
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