Gateway and enterprise egress governance

What the Gateway can control#

An application deliberately routes a supported request through the Gateway. LSAS resolves its identity and policy, evaluates ingress, invokes an admitted adapter where required and evaluates the output before release. The control exists at that routed boundary.

Traffic sent directly to an external AI service, through another proxy or by a disconnected application is outside that boundary unless another qualified integration covers it. An inline Gateway is not proof of enterprise network coverage.

What the enterprise egress design still needs#

Broader network egress integrations remain In Development. Their design must establish which protocols can be observed, how application and user identity are attributed, how encrypted traffic is handled, and how approved destinations are maintained. These are integration-specific questions, not properties obtained simply by installing a dashboard.

A customer must also choose availability and failure behavior. The ability to hold a supported request does not establish that every network path can be safely intercepted or that a bypass-free topology has been qualified.

Make coverage evidence explicit#

For a routed request, retain the actual policy and final result. For a network observation, retain the observation source, time and attribution basis. Do not present an observed destination as proof that a content policy ran or that the receiving service completed the requested work.

• Registered: the asset is named in the agreed inventory.
• Observed: a qualified source reports relevant activity.
• Evaluated: supported content passed the policy boundary.
• Enforced: observed handling supports the stated control result.

Qualify one path first#

A useful pilot starts with one named application, one data boundary and one approved destination. Test ordinary traffic, denied destinations, cancellations, provider failure and policy changes. Extend coverage only when the new path has equivalent identity, enforcement and evidence semantics.