dope.security alternative: when a block isn't enough for AI

A web gateway is a natural place to control AI, since the traffic already passes through it. If a personal ChatGPT account is the problem, a tenant rule fixes that quickly. It's when an approved enterprise account receives a prompt with a customer's ID in it that the choice gets harder: let it go, or stop the work.

Maskflare wrote this page. dope.security does a different main job from Maskflare, and for many teams the two wouldn't be competing for the same budget.

What is dope.security?

dope.security sells a secure web gateway with what it calls a fly-direct design: an on-device proxy, with no backhaul through a vendor's data center. Its DLP is called Dopamine DLP. Its AI management page describes discovering AI tools and telling personal accounts from enterprise-licensed ones, and its AI DLP article describes inspecting prompts and file uploads, with actions of block, monitor or off.

One detail is worth raising with them. The proxy runs on the device, but its AI classification uses zero-retention APIs, and its sub-processor list names an LLM provider. The vendor's own guide says the classifier doesn't retain content or train on it. So "on-device" and "where is my prompt read" may have different answers. Ask them which applies to your data.

It publishes SOC 2 Type II. We couldn't find masking, a coaching mode we could confirm is available, an LLM gateway, or EU product hosting in its public material.

Who should choose dope.security?

• You need a web gateway anyway. It covers general web filtering, CASB and DLP, and AI comes along with them. Maskflare doesn't filter the web.
• Your main problem is personal AI accounts. Allow the enterprise tenant and block the personal one: simple, and effective.
• A block is the right outcome for your policy. If sensitive data shouldn't reach AI at all, block is the honest control. Maskflare also blocks credentials for that reason.
• Performance and simplicity are your top priorities. Inspecting on the device avoids hairpinning traffic through a remote data center.
• You want a finished SOC 2 Type II today. Maskflare's audit is in progress.

Who should choose Maskflare?

1. People need the task to finish. Maskflare masks values with reversible tokens, and restores them in the answer. Blocking is one of its options, not the only one.
2. You want no third-party AI service reading prompts. Detection runs inside Maskflare: deterministic patterns, checksums and context, plus a local named-entity layer for names, places and free-text details; every match is explained.
3. You build your own AI apps. A gateway for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Groq, Together AI and Ollama, plus SDKs, a REST API and a LiteLLM guardrail.
4. Coding agents and MCP matter. Hooks for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code agent mode, and an MCP route that masks arguments and results.
5. You need specific European identifiers. 47 country packs with checksum validation, and 232 credential formats. Its public material names broad categories such as PII, PCI and PHI.
6. EU hosting matters. Maskflare is EU-hosted by default, with on-premises for enterprise.

dope.security vs Maskflare, feature by feature

Tenant control and masking solve different problems

These two are easy to mix up. Tenant control answers which account may be used. It keeps a customer list out of someone's personal ChatGPT history, and it's a very good control. Masking answers what the provider gets to see, in any account. An enterprise contract gives you better terms from the provider, but the prompt still reaches them with the data in it.

Many companies will want both. You can use a gateway for tenant rules and Maskflare for the values, so long as you agree how the traffic flows.

A practical test is to look at your approved AI accounts. If sensitive values rarely appear in them, tenant control and the occasional block are probably enough, and you may not need another product. If they appear every day as part of normal work, blocking them has a real cost, and that's where masking earns its place.

How do you move from dope.security to Maskflare, or add it?

1. Keep your web gateway if you need it. Maskflare doesn't replace web filtering or CASB.
2. Review your AI block log. Sort what was blocked into three groups: identifiers that could be masked, credentials that should stay blocked, and documents that should never go.
3. Plan the traffic path. Both products use a local proxy. The desktop agent routes only AI hosts, so test how the two behave on the same device. We haven't published a tested configuration.
4. Start with one app in alert mode. Run it for a week on ten laptops, then turn on masking.
5. Add your own apps through the gateway, independently of the endpoint rollout.

What Maskflare doesn't do

• It isn't a secure web gateway. It doesn't do web filtering, malware protection for general browsing, or CASB.
• It doesn't enforce enterprise tenants the way a gateway's tenant rule does; its AI app controls work from the desktop agent's discovery.
• AI app discovery and coaching dialogs need the desktop agent on managed devices; personal phones and unmanaged laptops are out of reach.
• Prompt-injection detection runs on MCP tool results and tool listings, not on chat prompts, and there's no topic filtering.
• SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits are in progress. If you need a finished report today, factor that in.

Sources and how we checked

Based on public information as of November 3, 2026. Maskflare wrote this page, and vendors change their products, so check anything that matters with the vendor. “Not publicly documented” means we couldn't find it, not that the product lacks it. If something here is wrong, tell us and we'll correct it.

• dope.security/manage-ai
• dope.security/post/ai-dlp-prevent-sensitive-data-leakage
• dope.security/legal/sub-processor-list
• dope.security/post/best-dlp-for-ai
• dope.security/post/soc2-type-2