Guides from Myra Security
Practical guides for IT, security and data protection teams: what to check before you roll out AI, how providers compare, and what the law asks of you. Every page lists its sources and the date we last checked them.
Guides
- AI for accountants: client data, ICAEW rules and UK GDPR: How UK and Irish accounting firms can use AI with client data: ICAEW Code, PCRT, UK and Irish regulator guidance, engagement letters.
- What is an AI gateway (LLM gateway)? A developer's guide: An AI gateway (LLM gateway) is a proxy between your apps and model APIs. What it does, open source vs managed, PII masking and GDPR, with a request example.
- AI governance: a practical programme for your organisation: AI governance in practice: inventory, policy, approved tools, model controls, logs, budgets and review, mapped to ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF and the AI Act.
- AI policy template: 12 rules for staff use of AI tools: Free AI acceptable use policy template for employees: 12 copyable rules based on UK GDPR, EU GDPR, UK regulator guidance and the EU AI Act, with notes.
- Open WebUI vs LibreChat: self-hosting AI chat for your staff: Open WebUI or LibreChat for your company? Licences, SSO, RAG and agents compared, what running either one involves, and when a managed EU workspace fits.
- PII masking for LLMs: Presidio, Nightfall or a gateway: PII masking for LLM prompts compared: Presidio as a library, Nightfall as a DLP API, masking in the gateway. Reversible tokens, trade-offs, GDPR limits.
- Sovereign AI: what your organisation can actually control: Sovereign AI in practice: data location, operator, applicable law, model choice and exit. What UK GDPR, the GDPR and the EU AI Act ask, and where limits are.
Comparisons
- Cloudflare AI Gateway alternative: an EU gateway compared: Cloudflare AI Gateway or Myra's managed EU gateway? Logs, DLP versus reversible PII masking, token scope, data localisation and routing, side by side.
- European ChatGPT alternative for business: a buyer's checklist: What makes a ChatGPT alternative European? Company, storage and inference location, sub-processors, the CLOUD Act and training, as of October 2026.
- Langdock alternative: Langdock vs Myra AI Workspace: Looking for a Langdock alternative? Hosting, model operators, privacy controls and audit logs of Langdock and Myra AI Workspace, as of October 2026.
- LiteLLM alternative: LiteLLM vs the Myra AI Workspace gateway: Looking for a LiteLLM alternative? Self-hosted open-source proxy or a managed EU gateway: licence, operations, PII masking, audit log and SSO compared.
- Mistral Le Chat alternative? Vibe vs Myra AI Workspace: Mistral Le Chat (now Vibe) or Myra AI Workspace? Models, training defaults, per-project lock, audit log and certifications compared, as of October 2026.
- OpenRouter alternative: a governed EU gateway for your keys: Looking for an OpenRouter alternative? Model routing, zero data retention, EU routing, PII masking and logs of OpenRouter and Myra's gateway, October 2026.
- Portkey alternative: Portkey vs the Myra AI Workspace gateway: Portkey is now Prisma AIRS AI Gateway. Deployment models, hosting, PII redaction, audit log and SSO of Portkey and Myra AI Workspace, as of October 2026.
Bot protection and CAPTCHA
- reCAPTCHA and GDPR: consent after Google's 2026 role change: Does Google reCAPTCHA need consent in the EU? Device-access rules, CNIL and Austrian court decisions, Google as processor since April 2026, your options.
- Cloudflare Turnstile alternative for EU websites: Looking for a Cloudflare Turnstile alternative? What Cloudflare says about roles, regional processing and cookies, and what to ask any captcha provider.