The safeguards map / 3.3 Gateways
IBM API Connect AI Gateway
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A commercial API gateway feature that routes calls to AI services under policies for access control, rate limits by requests or tokens, masking and audit trails, extended to large language model (LLM) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic.
Where it sits
3.3 Gateways (primary): Sits on the request path between applications and AI services, and applies the owner's API policies such as access control, data masking and token-based rate limits to the calls it carries.
you can centrally manage the use of AI through policy enforcement, data encryption, masking of sensitive data, access control, audit trails and more
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The AI Gateway enforces defined rate limits on APIs and API plans
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the Interact Gateway helps mediate and govern LLM and MCP traffic in real time without relying on centralized gateways.
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Facts
- Concern
- security
- Names the law
- no
- Subject
- AI system
- Used by
- those who run it
- Runs
- at runtime
- Policy comes from
- owner-entered settings
- Traffic it sees
- model callstool calls (MCP)
- Can the agent bypass it
- depends
Handoffs
None recorded.
Listed, not drawn: no documented handoff and no foundation home places it on the map.
Collector's note
The 12.1 product page names the capability the DataPower Interact Gateway and extends it to MCP traffic; the policy details come from the earlier AI Gateway documentation page. No handoff format is named in the pages read, so the entry is listed.
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