Your AI Security Problem Starts Before the Prompt

Most enterprise AI security conversations start in the wrong place. They start with the model. The prompt. The guardrails. The provider's SOC 2 report. As if risk begins the moment a token hits an LLM endpoint. It doesn't. The decisive security event happens earlier - when your system decides what the data is. If that decision is wrong, every downstream control is working from a compromised premise. The prompt filter, the masking policy, the access boundary, the audit log - all of it inherits the original mistake.