Question
What are guardrails in the I.T. industry?
Answer
A measure, technology or authentication policy in place to prevent problems in an enterprise network or with a application. With guardrails, a server or web application is protected from hackers or accidental misuse. It is a common metaphor based on highway guardrails. To learn more, see this posting:
https://devops.com/building-great-cloud-security-guardrails/
There is a specific product called GUARDRAILS that detects, fixes and prevents "security issues in your applications, open source dependencies and cloud platforms." taken from https://docs.guardrails.io/docs/en/what-is-guardrails