Guardrail Presets
Overview
A Guardrail Preset is a pre-filled starting point for a guardrail policy, built around a specific regulatory, industry, or security framework. Selecting a preset opens the same guardrail configuration form used for manual policy creation, with filters, denied topics, and sensitive data settings already populated to match that framework.
Access presets from the Presets dropdown on the Guardrail Policies page (Agentic Security → Agentic Guardrails → Guardrail Policies).
How Presets Work
A preset only changes the form's starting values. It does not create or enforce a policy by itself.
Select a framework from the Presets dropdown.
Review the pre-filled configuration and adjust it for your environment.
Set Scope and Rule Behaviour as you would for any policy.
Save the policy with Create Policy.
Nothing is created or enforced until you save, so you can open and discard a preset without affecting existing policies. For details on each form field, see Create Guardrail Policies.
Available Presets
HIPAA
Protecting health information handled by agents
PCI DSS Guardrail
Detecting exposure of payment card data
SOC 2 Compliance
Security, availability, and confidentiality controls
OWASP Agentic Top 10
Risks specific to autonomous agent behavior
OWASP LLM Top 10
Common risks in LLM-based applications
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
AI risk governance
CIS Controls
Baseline cybersecurity safeguards
CMMC
Controls for U.S. defense contractors
CSA CCM
Cloud security controls
FISMA
Controls for federal information systems
FedRAMP
Authorization for federal cloud services
ISO 27001
Information security management
NIST 800-171
Protecting sensitive government information
NIST 800-53
Federal security and privacy controls
OWASP
General web application security risks
MITRE ATLAS
Adversarial threats to AI and ML systems
The list can grow as Akto adds support for more frameworks. Check the Presets dropdown in your console for the current list.
Why Use Presets
Faster setup for a known compliance or security requirement.
Fewer gaps, since the preset already covers control categories the framework typically expects.
Fully editable — a preset is a starting point, not a fixed template.
Related Concepts
Guardrail Policy — what a guardrail policy enforces
Create Guardrail Policies — the form presets pre-fill
Manage Guardrail Policies — editing, disabling, and deleting policies
Threat Dashboard — filter detections by compliance framework
Guardrail Activity Detailed View — see which frameworks a detection maps to
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