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AI Agent Security Tools and Firewalls Compared
Where Pipelock's agent firewall overlaps with proxies, gateways, sandboxes, guardrails, platforms, and evidence tools, and where it does not.
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- I need to explain the category to a security team Agent firewall vs guardrails Where enforcement happens and why the two layers fail differently.
- I already run an egress proxy or an MCP gateway Pipelock vs iron-proxy Content inspection next to allowlists, credential brokering, and routing.
- My agents run in a sandbox or a governed framework Pipelock vs DefenseClaw Framework hooks and sandboxes control actions. Pipelock inspects the wire.
- I need evidence an auditor can check without trusting me Pipelock vs agent evidence tools Who holds the signing key, and whether verification works offline.
- My identity team is solving who may call which tool Agent firewall vs authorization gateway Permission is one half. What the permitted call carries is the other.
- Procurement wants one platform for all of it Agent firewall vs AI security platform Broad and managed, or narrow and verifiable.
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Concepts
Category definitions. Read these before comparing products.
PipelockPipelock is the open-source reference for the agent firewall category on these pages.
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Proxies and gateways
Egress proxies, AI gateways, and MCP gateways that sit on the network path.
PipelockPipelock adds payload inspection and signed receipts to allowlists, routing, and credential handling.
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Sandboxes and scanners
Sandboxes, pre-deploy scanners, and framework-side governance that control what an agent can do before and while it runs.
PipelockPipelock inspects what crosses the network boundary those tools draw.
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Inference guardrails
Classifiers and guardrail libraries that sit between the application and the model.
PipelockPipelock covers the tool calls and HTTP traffic that never pass through the model API.
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Platforms
Enterprise platforms and control planes bought through procurement.
PipelockPipelock is the focused, self-hosted piece you can read, run, and verify.
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Evidence and receipts
Tools that produce signed or hash-chained records of agent actions.
PipelockPipelock signs from outside the agent process with a key the operator holds.
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