An LLM gateway is both a data-path dependency and a security enforcement point. A sound architecture minimizes retained content, scopes credentials, controls models and providers, protects logs, isolates tenants and environments, audits changes, and publishes the processors and policies buyers need to assess.
The INFRO view: INFRO centralizes model access and publishes its current security and legal posture so teams can evaluate the gateway as a real data-path dependency.
Map the complete data path
Document application, gateway, provider routes, logs, analytics, support tooling, backups, and media storage. For each hop, identify data, purpose, region, encryption, retention, deletion, and access.
A gateway does not remove provider review; it should make the active provider path visible and reduce direct credentials in applications.
Centralize enforceable policy
Use scoped keys, projects, roles, model allowlists, spend ceilings, rate controls, and environment separation. Apply policy before forwarding a request so disallowed data or models do not reach an upstream route.
Keep agent tool permissions separate. Permission to call a model is not permission to send an email, transfer money, or delete data.
Protect operational evidence
Request traces are sensitive because metadata can reveal customers, features, and usage patterns even without prompts. Restrict access, redact secrets, choose retention deliberately, and audit privileged reads and policy changes.
Default to metadata-first logging and enable payload capture only for an approved debugging or evaluation purpose.
Evaluate the vendor honestly
Review security documentation, DPA, subprocessors, incident process, vulnerability handling, deletion, availability, and current certifications. Test key revocation, model restrictions, error behavior, and log access.
Separate implemented controls from roadmap promises. Procurement needs the current state.
Where INFRO fits
The security page, DPA, subprocessors, privacy policy, and acceptable use policy document the public posture. INFRO adds roles, keys, model controls, request tracing, and spend boundaries around supported provider routes.
INFRO is in private early access. Confirm retention, regional, contractual, and certification requirements before sending sensitive workloads; if a hard requirement is not met, do not infer it from a roadmap.
Frequently asked questions
Does an LLM gateway increase security risk?
It adds a party to the data path, which must be reviewed. It can also reduce distributed provider credentials and centralize enforceable policy, audit, and spend containment.
Should an LLM gateway store prompts?
Not by default for operational visibility. Metadata-first traces can answer many reliability and cost questions; content retention should be a deliberate documented choice.
Where is INFRO's security information?
INFRO publishes dedicated security, privacy, DPA, subprocessor, acceptable-use, and related legal pages on its site.
