
Fail Open or Fail Closed for LLM Security Controls
What should your AI app do when its security scanner times out or errors? A guide to choosing fail-open, fail-closed or review per workflow, with tested fallbacks.
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Buying and running LLM security in production: build vs buy, evaluating security APIs, choosing fail-open or fail-closed behavior, balancing latency and false positives, and logging without over-retaining data.
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What should your AI app do when its security scanner times out or errors? A guide to choosing fail-open, fail-closed or review per workflow, with tested fallbacks.

Balance latency, false positives and missed attacks in LLM security. Set per-category thresholds, use warn and review states and measure tail latency.

What to log for AI security events and what to leave out: request IDs, categories, policy versions and tool calls, with raw prompts kept separate.