From Packets To Prompts: How Security Is Changing With AI And Why LLM Firewalls Matter
Veeam, Friday, January 30th, 2026
Security evolves alongside what we build. When we built networks, we got network firewalls. When we built web applications, we added web application firewalls (WAFs), API gateways, and application-layer controls.
Now that teams are shipping products that can reason over unstructured text, retrieve private data, and trigger actions through tools, security is shifting again.
The biggest change with these new products is not simply that AI creates 'more vulnerabilities'; it's that AI changes where your vulnerabilities live. In many systems, the attack surface now includes prompts, conversation context, model outputs, retrieval pipelines (RAG), and tool calls.