afterdark-llm-firewall 0.1.0
Production-ready security layer for AI applications
License: MIT
Requires Python: <4.0,>=3.10
Keywords: llm, security, ai, firewall, prompt-injection

# LLM Security Firewall

**A production-ready security layer for AI applications that prevents prompt injection, data exfiltration, and policy violations.**

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## The Problem

Companies deploying LLMs face critical security risks:

- ❌ **Prompt Injection** - Users manipulate AI behavior with crafted inputs
- ❌ **Data Exfiltration** - Sensitive data leaks through AI responses
- ❌ **Jailbreaks** - Users bypass content policies and safety guardrails
- ❌ **PII Exposure** - Personal information revealed in outputs
- ❌ **No Audit Trail** - Can't track what users ask or what AI responds
- ❌ **Cost Overruns** - Uncontrolled API usage drains budgets

## The Solution

**LLM Security Firewall** sits between your application and AI providers, providing:

✅ **Real-time Threat Detection** - Block attacks before they reach the AI
✅ **Content Filtering** - Redact sensitive data in requests and responses
✅ **Policy Enforcement** - Define and enforce usage policies
✅ **Complete Audit Logs** - Track every interaction for compliance
✅ **Cost Control** - Rate limiting and budget management
✅ **Multi-Provider Support** - Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, local models

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## Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
pip install llm-security-firewall
```

### Basic Usage

```python
from llm_firewall import LLMFirewall, FirewallConfig

# Initialize firewall
config = FirewallConfig(
    providers=["openai", "anthropic"],
    enable_prompt_injection_detection=True,
    enable_pii_redaction=True,
    enable_audit_logging=True,
)

firewall = LLMFirewall(config)

# Protect your LLM calls
async with firewall.protect() as session:
    response = await session.chat(
        provider="openai",
        model="gpt-4",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": user_input}]
    )

# Firewall automatically:
# - Scans for prompt injection
# - Redacts PII
# - Logs the interaction
# - Enforces rate limits
# - Returns safe response
```

### As Middleware (FastAPI)

```python
from fastapi import FastAPI
from llm_firewall.middleware import LLMFirewallMiddleware

app = FastAPI()

# Add firewall middleware
app.add_middleware(
    LLMFirewallMiddleware,
    config=config,
    api_key_header="X-API-Key",
)

@app.post("/api/chat")
async def chat(request: ChatRequest):
    # Requests automatically protected by firewall
    return await llm_client.chat(request)
```

### As Proxy Server

```bash
# Start proxy server
llm-firewall-proxy --config config.yaml --port 8080

# Point your LLM SDK at the proxy
export OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/openai
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/anthropic
```

---

## Features

### 🛡️ Threat Detection

**Prompt Injection Detection**
- Pattern-based detection (known attack vectors)
- ML-based classification (custom trained model)
- Confidence scoring (0-100%)
- Automatic blocking or warning mode

**Jailbreak Prevention**
- Detects attempts to bypass content policies
- Recognizes role-play attacks ("pretend you're...")
- Identifies multi-turn manipulation attempts

**Data Exfiltration Protection**
- Scans for requests asking for system prompts
- Detects attempts to extract training data
- Prevents credential/key harvesting

### 🔒 Content Security

**PII Redaction**
- Automatic detection and redaction:
  - Email addresses
  - Phone numbers
  - Credit card numbers
  - SSN/Tax IDs
  - IP addresses
  - API keys/tokens
- Reversible redaction (restore in logs)
- Custom redaction patterns

**Response Filtering**
- Scan AI responses for sensitive data
- Block or redact policy violations
- Custom content rules

**Data Loss Prevention (DLP)**
- Prevent specific data types from being sent/received
- Configurable allow/deny lists
- Regex-based pattern matching

### 📊 Policy Engine

**Access Control**
- User-based quotas (requests per hour/day)
- Model access restrictions
- Feature gating (by tier, role, etc.)
- IP allowlist/denylist

**Cost Management**
- Budget limits per user/team
- Token usage tracking
- Cost alerts and auto-cutoff
- Provider cost comparison

**Compliance**
- GDPR mode (data minimization)
- HIPAA compliance features
- SOC 2 audit logging
- Data residency controls

### 📈 Observability

**Audit Logging**
- Complete request/response logging
- Threat detection events
- Policy violations
- Performance metrics
- Export to SIEM (Splunk, Elastic, Datadog)

**Real-time Monitoring**
- Live dashboard
- Threat alerts (Slack, PagerDuty, webhook)
- Usage analytics
- Performance metrics

**Analytics**
- User behavior analysis
- Attack pattern detection
- Model performance comparison
- Cost optimization insights

---

## Architecture

```
┌─────────────────┐
│   Application   │
└────────┬────────┘
         │
    ┌────▼────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │       LLM Security Firewall                 │
    │                                             │
    │  ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐  │
    │  │    Input Protection Layer             │  │
    │  │  • Prompt Injection Detection         │  │
    │  │  • PII Redaction                      │  │
    │  │  • Request Validation                 │  │
    │  └──────────────────────────────────────┘  │
    │                                             │
    │  ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐  │
    │  │    Policy Engine                      │  │
    │  │  • Access Control                     │  │
    │  │  • Rate Limiting                      │  │
    │  │  • Cost Management                    │  │
    │  └──────────────────────────────────────┘  │
    │                                             │
    │  ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐  │
    │  │    Output Protection Layer            │  │
    │  │  • Response Scanning                  │  │
    │  │  • Content Filtering                  │  │
    │  │  • Data Redaction                     │  │
    │  └──────────────────────────────────────┘  │
    │                                             │
    │  ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐  │
    │  │    Audit & Monitoring                 │  │
    │  │  • Event Logging                      │  │
    │  │  • Metrics Collection                 │  │
    │  │  • Alert Management                   │  │
    │  └──────────────────────────────────────┘  │
    └────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
             │
    ┌────────▼────────┐
    │  AI Providers   │
    │  • OpenAI       │
    │  • Anthropic    │
    │  • Azure        │
    │  • Local LLMs   │
    └─────────────────┘
```

---

## Configuration

### YAML Configuration

```yaml
# config.yaml
firewall:
  # Detection settings
  detection:
    prompt_injection:
      enabled: true
      threshold: 0.7  # 70% confidence
      action: block  # or 'warn'

    jailbreak:
      enabled: true
      patterns:
        - "ignore previous instructions"
        - "pretend you are"
        - "act as if"

    data_exfiltration:
      enabled: true
      sensitive_keywords:
        - "api key"
        - "password"
        - "secret"

  # Content filtering
  content:
    pii_redaction:
      enabled: true
      types:
        - email
        - phone
        - ssn
        - credit_card

    response_filtering:
      enabled: true
      block_patterns:
        - r"\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\b"

  # Policy engine
  policy:
    rate_limiting:
      enabled: true
      limits:
        default: 100/hour
        premium: 1000/hour

    cost_management:
      enabled: true
      budget_limits:
        daily: 100.00
        monthly: 2000.00

    access_control:
      allowed_models:
        - gpt-4
        - gpt-4-turbo
        - claude-3-sonnet

  # Logging & monitoring
  logging:
    audit_log:
      enabled: true
      destination: postgresql
      retention_days: 90

    alerts:
      webhook_url: https://hooks.slack.com/services/YOUR/WEBHOOK
      alert_on:
        - high_risk_threat
        - policy_violation
        - budget_exceeded
```

### Environment Variables

```bash
# Provider API keys
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

# Firewall settings
export LLM_FIREWALL_CONFIG=config.yaml
export LLM_FIREWALL_LOG_LEVEL=INFO
export LLM_FIREWALL_DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost/firewall

# Security
export LLM_FIREWALL_SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key
export LLM_FIREWALL_ENCRYPTION_KEY=your-encryption-key
```

---

## Use Cases

### Enterprise SaaS Application
```python
# Protect customer-facing chatbot
firewall = LLMFirewall(config)

@app.post("/api/chat")
async def chat(message: str, user_id: str):
    # Enforce per-user rate limits
    # Block prompt injection
    # Redact PII from user messages
    # Log all interactions for compliance

    async with firewall.protect(user_id=user_id) as session:
        return await session.chat(
            provider="anthropic",
            model="claude-3-sonnet",
            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": message}]
        )
```

### Internal Developer Tools
```python
# Protect code generation assistant
config = FirewallConfig(
    enable_prompt_injection_detection=True,
    enable_code_safety_analysis=True,  # Scan generated code
    enable_cost_tracking=True,
    cost_alerts={
        "daily": 50.00,
        "per_request": 0.50,
    }
)

firewall = LLMFirewall(config)
```

### RAG Application
```python
# Protect retrieval-augmented generation
async with firewall.protect() as session:
    # Prevent prompt injection in retrieved documents
    # Block attempts to extract training data
    # Redact sensitive data from vector DB results

    results = vector_db.search(query)
    response = await session.chat(
        provider="openai",
        model="gpt-4",
        messages=[
            {"role": "system", "content": "Use these docs: " + results},
            {"role": "user", "content": user_query}
        ]
    )
```

---

## Deployment

### Docker

```bash
# Pull image
docker pull llmsecurity/firewall:latest

# Run as proxy
docker run -p 8080:8080 \
  -e OPENAI_API_KEY=$OPENAI_API_KEY \
  -v $(pwd)/config.yaml:/app/config.yaml \
  llmsecurity/firewall:latest
```

### Kubernetes

```yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: llm-firewall
spec:
  replicas: 3
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: firewall
        image: llmsecurity/firewall:latest
        env:
        - name: OPENAI_API_KEY
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: llm-api-keys
              key: openai
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
```

### AWS Lambda (Serverless)

```python
# lambda_handler.py
from llm_firewall import LLMFirewall, FirewallConfig

config = FirewallConfig.from_env()
firewall = LLMFirewall(config)

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    user_input = event['body']['message']

    async with firewall.protect() as session:
        response = await session.chat(
            provider="openai",
            model="gpt-4",
            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": user_input}]
        )

    return {"statusCode": 200, "body": response}
```

---

## Performance

**Latency Overhead:**
- Pattern-based detection: ~5-10ms
- ML-based detection: ~20-50ms
- PII redaction: ~10-15ms
- Total average: ~35-75ms added latency

**Throughput:**
- 10,000+ requests/sec (pattern-based only)
- 2,000+ requests/sec (full protection)
- Scales horizontally with Redis cache

**Resource Usage:**
- Memory: ~200MB base + ~50MB per 1000 req/sec
- CPU: ~0.5 cores at 1000 req/sec

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## Pricing

### Open Source (MIT License)
- ✅ Core security features
- ✅ Self-hosted deployment
- ✅ Community support

### Cloud (SaaS)
- **Starter**: $99/month
  - 100K requests/month
  - Basic threat detection
  - 30-day audit logs

- **Professional**: $499/month
  - 1M requests/month
  - Advanced ML detection
  - 90-day audit logs
  - Slack/PagerDuty alerts

- **Enterprise**: Custom pricing
  - Unlimited requests
  - Custom ML models
  - Unlimited log retention
  - SLA & dedicated support
  - On-premise deployment

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## Roadmap

### Q1 2026
- [x] Core firewall MVP
- [x] Prompt injection detection
- [x] PII redaction
- [ ] Web dashboard
- [ ] SIEM integrations

### Q2 2026
- [ ] Advanced ML models
- [ ] Multi-language support
- [ ] Custom policy DSL
- [ ] Terraform provider

### Q3 2026
- [ ] Real-time collaboration features
- [ ] Advanced analytics
- [ ] Compliance certifications
- [ ] Enterprise features

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## Contributing

We welcome contributions! See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.

## License

MIT License - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.

## Support

- 📖 [Documentation](https://llmsecurity.dev/docs)
- 💬 [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/llmsecurity)
- 🐛 [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/straticus1/llm-security-firewall/issues)
- 📧 [Email Support](mailto:support@llmsecurity.dev)

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