AI Gateway Security: The First Control Is the Weakest

The article highlights a gap in AI agent security: while the gateway is the first control teams often deploy, it rests on identity and attribution layers that are largely absent. This makes the gateway an insecure foundation. The June CISA addition of a LiteLLM flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog is a concrete example of the risk — attackers abused it in the wild, running commands without credentials, and it was one of seven CVEs in that gateway that month. The article suggests that secure agent architecture should place gateway controls fifth, implying that other controls like identity and attribution must come first. This is a call to rethink the order of security priorities in AI deployments, focusing on foundational layers before relying on gateways as a catch-all.