Lakera Guard
Policy enginelakera-guard
API that screens LLM inputs and outputs for prompt attacks, harmful content, PII and unknown links.
- Provider
- default
- Kind
- Policy engine
- Category
- Operations
- Official docs
- https://docs.lakera.ai/docs/api
- Also known as
- Check Point AI Guardrails
| property | type | values | required | kind default | this component |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| effect | enum | audit | deny | modify | deploy-if-not-exists | no | — | ▸ audit |
| enforcementMode | enum | enforced | disabled | no | — | inherited |
| flaggingSensitivity | enum | l1 | l2 | l3 | l4 | no | l4 | inherited |
| managed | boolean | — | no | false | ▸ true |
| policyCount | integer | — | no | — | inherited |
| region | enum | global | eu | us | asia | no | global | inherited |
| remediation | boolean | — | no | false | inherited |
| scope | enum | resource | group | account | organization | no | — | ▸ resource |
| selfHosted | boolean | — | no | false | inherited |
Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.
No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.
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and 16 more → Policy engine page# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json # Lakera Guard: API that screens LLM inputs and outputs for prompt attacks, harmful content, PII and unknown # links; Check Point closed its acquisition of Lakera in October 2025 and now calls it AI Guardrails. Per # "API Overview", /v2/guard returns a flagged verdict and enforcement is left to the caller; per "Policies", # with no project the Default Policy runs every detector at the strictest sensitivity, L4 (Paranoid). schemaVersion: "1" type: "component" id: "lakera-guard" kind: "policy-engine" provider: "default" docs: "https://docs.lakera.ai/docs/api" aliases: ["Check Point AI Guardrails"] defaults: managed: true scope: "resource" effect: "audit" properties: flaggingSensitivity: type: "enum" values: ["l1", "l2", "l3", "l4"] default: "l4" region: type: "enum" values: ["global", "eu", "us", "asia"] default: "global" selfHosted: type: "boolean" default: false