Guardrails shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all switch
Most gateway guardrails are all-or-nothing and tuned by the vendor. Teams get surprise blocks on legitimate traffic, or miss the coverage their region requires, and heavy safety scans add cost to every call.
- Vendor-tuned defaults block traffic you never asked to block
- Personal-data formats differ by country, so one global detector rarely fits
- Heavy semantic scans add cost and latency on every call
- Guardrail changes need an owner, a version history, and an audit trail