Envoy AI Gateway
Overview
Product details compiled from public sources, each with a citation.
Matrix Coverage
Where this product defends, by asset class and NIST CSF function. The Coverage column shows whether each asset is Primary, Secondary, or Adjacent to what the product does. The table omits empty rows and columns.
| Asset class | Identify | Protect | Coverage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Orchestration Tools | Secondary | 2 | ||
| AI Gateways and Routers | Primary | 3 |
Framework Relevance
These frameworks include controls relevant to the asset classes Envoy AI Gateway defends. This is an editorial inference from the AI Defense Matrix asset-level crossmap, not a statement that Envoy AI Gateway community implements these controls or is certified against them.
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| Framework | Asset class | Relevant controls |
|---|---|---|
| NIST IR 8596 | AI Orchestration Tools | Agents as deployed artifacts (orchestration view; see AI Agent Identities row for the principal view); system prompts and templates |
| AI Gateways and Routers | AI data flows; APIs; inference endpoints (traffic side); model registries and dataset sources | |
| CSA AI Controls Matrix | AI Orchestration Tools | Application and Interface Security; Supply Chain Management |
| AI Gateways and Routers | Infrastructure Security; Interoperability and Portability | |
| ISO 42001 | AI Orchestration Tools | A.6 AI system life cycle; A.5 Assessing impacts of AI systems |
| AI Gateways and Routers | A.8 Information for interested parties; A.9 Use of AI systems; A.10 Third-party and customer relationships | |
| Google SAIF | AI Orchestration Tools | Secure the AI supply chain; application and pipeline security; agent orchestration controls |
| AI Gateways and Routers | Harden and monitor infrastructure; network-level access and egress controls | |
| SANS Critical AI Security Guidelines | AI Orchestration Tools | Secure Agentic Systems and AI Autonomy Controls (defined function scope; execution isolation; API and function-call gating); Limit Model Behavior (focused functionality; access controls outside the model) |
| AI Gateways and Routers | Conventional Security Controls (authenticate and control access to inference APIs; API key management); Model I/O Handling (rate limiting; egress output filtering); Monitoring (interaction and API-usage logging) | |
| MITRE ATLAS | AI Orchestration Tools | AML.T0051 LLM Prompt Injection; AML.T0054 LLM Jailbreak; AML.T0016 Obtain Capabilities (malicious plugins) |
| AI Gateways and Routers | AML.T0057 LLM Data Leakage; AML.T0024 Exfiltration via AI Inference API (network-side observation) | |
| OWASP AI Exchange | AI Orchestration Tools | Development-time threats: agent framework supply chain; runtime threats: plugin abuse, prompt injection via tools |
| AI Gateways and Routers | Runtime threats: data leakage via AI egress; network-level access control gaps | |
| OWASP LLM Top 10 | AI Orchestration Tools | LLM01 Prompt Injection; LLM05 Improper Output Handling; LLM07 System Prompt Leakage; LLM10 Unbounded Consumption |
| AI Gateways and Routers | LLM10 Unbounded Consumption (cost and rate control); shadow AI egress and output handling | |
| OWASP Agentic Security Top 10 | AI Orchestration Tools | ASI01 Agent Goal Hijack; ASI02 Tool Misuse and Exploitation; ASI05 Unexpected Code Execution (RCE); ASI07 Insecure Inter-Agent Communication; ASI08 Cascading Failures; ASI10 Rogue Agents |
| AI Gateways and Routers | ASI07 Insecure Inter-Agent Communication; ASI02 Tool Misuse and Exploitation (egress and tool-invocation scope); ASI04 Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities (MCP and tool-registry trust) |
Provenance
Last sourced 2026-07-05.
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Sources
- Envoy AI Gateway
- “Envoy AI Gateway is the result of the community coming together to address GenAI traffic handling needs using Envoy.”
- Envoy AI Gateway capabilities
- “Configure multiple controller replicas and horizontal pod autoscaling for production deployments”
- “Server multiplexing, tool routing, OAuth authentication, and observability for MCP workloads”
- envoyproxy/ai-gateway
- “Manages Unified Access to Generative AI Services built on Envoy Gateway”
- Envoy AI Gateway reaches 1.0
- “the first stable, production-ready release of the open source AI gateway built on CNCF's Envoy Gateway”
- “Today, Envoy AI Gateway 1.0 is generally available”
Changelog
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Added to the catalog from the Envoy AI Gateway documentation and release notes.
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