aiFWall Emerges from Stealth with an AI Firewall

aiFWall emerged from stealth on 21 January 2026, with a free basic product planned ahead of the full company launch. The offering markets itself as a firewall for AI deployments that uses AI to improve its own performance, describing a two-way system that filters both harmful inputs to the AI and toxic or biased outputs from it.

According to founder Vaidya, existing security solutions lack context and real-time, just-in-time protection, so aiFWall collects prompts (with consent) including malicious ones to generate threat markers that are shared across deployed installations. The approach relies on a central AI engine to produce these markers, which are then distributed to all aiFWall deployments, while the broader, central-analytic interaction remains part of a paid subscription after the official launch.

The piece notes that threat actors are already developing AI-targeted viruses, including PromptLock first seen in August 2025, and references a claim that in November Google described several others exploiting agentic AI systems; it also references a claim that a Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated Anthropic’s Claude Code tool to infiltrate roughly thirty global targets.

The model emphasises that aiFWall is not a substitute for network firewalls, but a protective layer around agentic AI within the network, aiming to prevent both inbound and outbound AI-specific threats.