Introducing Guardrails: Keeping AIDA on Task

Guardrails is a feature introduced by Starburst to enhance governance and security for their AI agent, AIDA, by providing a set of administrative controls that ensure the agent behaves as intended within an organization's guidelines. Built on a governed query engine, AIDA already adheres to strict access controls, row and column security, and ensures queries remain within the platform. Guardrails adds a behavioral layer with four controls: agent protection, data product protection, prompt limiting, and topic filtering, each designed to prevent misuse or unintended actions by AIDA. These controls are easily configurable via the Starburst UI and provide clear feedback when a request is blocked, ensuring transparency for users and administrators. The current controls focus on behavioral instructions, but future developments will introduce a structural detection layer using external ML-based classification for enhanced security, allowing organizations to define varied policies for different contexts, thereby maintaining robust security and operational efficiency. Guardrails is available on Starburst Enterprise and Starburst Galaxy, with conservative defaults allowing organizations to start safely and adjust settings to their specific needs.

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