OneShield Against the Storm: A Smarter Firewall for LLM Risks
As businesses embrace large language models (LLMs) across sectors like healthcare, finance, and customer support, a pressing concern has emerged: how do we guard against hallucinations, toxicity, and data leaks without killing performance or flexibility? Enter OneShield, IBM’s next-generation guardrail framework. Think of it not as a rigid moral compass baked into the model, but as an external, modular firewall — capable of custom rules, parallel scanning, and jurisdiction-aware policy enforcement. The design principle is simple but powerful: separate safety from generation. ...