What is the difference between prompt injection detection and prompt injection mitigation?

Detection tells you an attack is happening. Mitigation stops it from working.

Detection typically means:

• Identifying suspicious prompts

• Alerting security teams

• Flagging policy violations

• Logging attack attempts for investigation

Mitigation typically means:

• Blocking malicious prompts before they execute

• Preventing unsafe tool calls

• Restricting resource access

• Enforcing security policies

• Stopping sensitive data from being disclosed

You need both, and they're not interchangeable. Detection without mitigation is essentially just a very expensive audit log - you know what happened after the damage is done. Mitigation without detection means you're flying blind on attack patterns and trends.

Akto combines runtime detection with policy-based enforcement. You get visibility into what's being attempted, plus active prevention of what those attempts can actually cause.