Security researchers recently identified a critical vulnerability in Lenovo's AI-powered customer support chatbot, which was susceptible to prompt injection attacks due to a lack of fundamental AI guardrails. This vulnerability allowed a 400-character malicious prompt to trick the system into generating harmful HTML code, potentially compromising customer support systems. The incident highlighted the importance of implementing effective AI guardrails, which are systems designed to ensure AI applications operate securely by preventing unsafe inputs and model misbehavior. These guardrails encompass technical, procedural, policy, and behavioral controls to establish boundaries and safety measures throughout the AI lifecycle. A unified framework is essential to align these controls, providing data governance, model behavior controls, and workflow protections, thereby allowing organizations to innovate rapidly without compromising security. The framework helps eliminate the "confidence tax" associated with AI deployment, streamlining processes like approval gates and late-night checks, and is crucial for preventing incidents and ensuring regulatory compliance. By embedding context-aware controls, organizations can prevent AI systems from making unauthorized or dangerous decisions, ensuring human oversight and operational scalability.