Inspect both directions
Enable request inspection, response inspection or both for LLM and MCP traffic, with policy configuration for supported targets and principals.
Enterprise DLP
Connect your existing DLP service through ICAP. Apply its inspection decisions to model requests, model responses and MCP traffic.
Extend the controls you already run
Enable request inspection, response inspection or both for LLM and MCP traffic, with policy configuration for supported targets and principals.
Enabled ICAP checks deny on inspection errors, timeouts and unsupported responses. Explicit bypasses are recorded with the request.
Record DLP decisions, inspection latency, errors and bypass reasons alongside the AI Warden gateway decision.
The inspection boundary
LLM request-side ICAP inspection runs before prompt compression so the DLP service can inspect the original request content after local scanning.
Enabled LLM response-side ICAP checks buffer output for inspection, including SSE responses, before returning approved content. This adds latency and changes streaming delivery.
Inspect JSON-RPC requests and responses through the MCP Gateway. MCP SSE responses are inspected per complete event.
The gateway attaches authenticated request, user, agent and target metadata for the DLP service. Upstream providers do not receive that extra ICAP metadata.
Integration, made concrete
Start with one DLP service, one model route and one MCP server. Check allow, modify, block and inspection-error behavior using approved test content.
ICAP is a protocol integration. Vendor-specific policy mappings, network security and deployment behavior should be validated with your actual service.
Plan a DLP integration reviewConfigure REQMOD / RESPMOD endpoints and the intended inspection scope.
Confirm content modification, denial, timeout handling and supported streaming behavior.
Inspect recorded DLP decisions, service latency, errors and any explicit bypasses.
Questions, answered
AI Warden can run its own configured content-scanning rules and integrate an external ICAP DLP service. The controls are configured separately and can run together.
LLM ICAP response inspection buffers the response before approved output is delivered. MCP SSE checks inspect complete events. Review latency, size limits and delivery behavior for your use case.
The integration uses ICAP OPTIONS, REQMOD and RESPMOD. Compatibility and vendor-specific interpretation need to be validated against your service; this website does not claim certification by any DLP vendor.
See AI Warden in action
Walk through allow, modify, block and fail-closed handling on an AI request path with our engineering team.