Mohammed Zaid Malkani@MZMalkani

Sentinel Node is a sophisticated Layer 7 AI Web Application Firewall designed to neutralize the unique vulnerabilities of LLM-integrated applications. While traditional firewalls focus on network protocols, Sentinel Node analyzes the semantic intent of natural language to block prompt injections, jailbreaks, and social engineering. Built with a multi-layered defense-in-depth architecture, it combines static DLP scrubbing for sensitive data with a secondary Llama-powered reasoning engine for behavioral analysis. By intercepting malicious prompts before they reach the core model and scrubbing responses before they reach the user, it provides a transparent, explainable, and modular security gatekeeper for the age of autonomous AI.

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