- With over 1,000 MCP servers deployed globally, we are rapidly gaining the basic protocols that enable LLMS.
- Operant's innovative 3D runtime defense technology addresses critical security blind spots as MCP adoption explodes across enterprise AI workflows
- With the Indian AI market heading towards $17 billion by 2027, protocols like MCP will see rapid adoption across IT services, fintech and healthcare companies.
Operant AI, the world's only runtime AI defense platform, has been released MCP Gatewayexpansion of its flagship products, AI GateKeeper™ A platform that protects AI systems built on the increasingly adopted Model Context Protocol (MCP). With more companies using open source MCP servers and AI agents, MCP Gateway stands out as the only enterprise-grade solution to protect these critical workflows in real time, and features the industry's first active blocking feature for API security.
With over 1,000 MCP servers deployed globally, MCP is an important protocol that allows large-scale language models (LLMs) to securely connect to external tools, APIs, and data systems. According to Gartner, by 2026, 75% of API gateway vendors and 50% of integrated platforms will employ MCP capabilities as service (IPAAS) vendors, highlighting their role in AI-driven workflows. In India, where the AI market is projected to reach $17 billion by 2027 in accordance with NASSCOM, MCP is gaining traction among companies in sectors such as IT services, fintech and healthcare.
However, this explosive growth also introduces significant vulnerabilities. From rapid injection attacks to the deployment of Shadow AI, organizations are tackling a new wave of threat vectors that are caught up in the rise of modular multi-agent systems. As autonomous agents grow, the risk of limited visibility or control over these agents' behavior, data they access, and how they interact. This includes new attack paths such as spoofing between agents. There, one compromised agent can manipulate or misunderstand others in the network.
MCP Gateway addresses these gaps by actively blocking threats and providing real-time protection from local tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Desktop to any layer of the MCP stack.
“While MCP is a powerful AI integration framework, the increasing adoption of open source MCP servers also poses new security and governance challenges.” I said Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder of Operant AI. “Many organizations deploy these tools without fully visualizing behavior, data access, or usage. MCP gateways help close this gap by providing security, observability and control across the entire MCP ecosystem.”
Comprehensive security for AI Agent ERA
Unlike traditional guardrails and static cybersecurity tools, MCP Gateway is dedicated to interconnected AI Agent ERAs, allowing organizations to safely and effectively utilize AI Agents and MCPs through three core functions.
- MCP Discovery: Full visibility into the AI agent ecosystem
- Discovering automatic real-time MCP tool catalog and AI agents in all environments
- Live Traffic Graph and Telemetry Showing Active Access Patterns between AI Agent Clients and MCP Servers
- End-to-end visibility from development tools to cloud deployments, eliminating blind spots for shadow MCP servers
- Comprehensive discovery across remote AI agents in multi-cloud environments and coding agents
- MCP detection: Advanced threat detection for AI-specific risks
- Real-time detection of sensitive data leaks between AI agents and MCP tools
- Identifying emerging agent AI threat vectors including tool addiction, jailbreak, and unauthorized access
- Supply chain security monitoring for local MCP server vulnerabilities and misunderstandings on remote servers
- Trust and risk scoring for all MCP servers in your environment
- MCP Defense: Proactive Protection and Governance
- Enforce MCP Trust Zone with Live Blocking of Untrusted Servers and Tools
- Prevent sensitive data and IP leaks with real-time flow blocking and automatic mitigation
- Minimum privilege execution control and granular access permissions for use of MCP tools
- A centralized governance framework for enterprise-wide AI agents and tools management
- Rate limiting and encryption standards enforcement for all MCP communications
Ecosystem Partnership Strategy
Operant AI is launching MCP Gateways with a comprehensive ecosystem partnership program designed to ensure an entire MCP vendor. Operant AI works closely with MCP vendors and AI tool providers to provide pre-integrated security tools and help protect customers by incorporating AI GateKeeper's runtime defense directly into MCP products.
“It's not just about protecting MCP applications, it's about enabling the entire ecosystem.” I said Ashley Roof, co-founder and CMO of Operant AI. “Our partnership approach reflects a successful sales enablement program with model providers, creating a security foundation that allows MCP vendors to confidently serve their enterprise customers.”
MCP Gateway is currently available as part of the AI GateKeeper platform and has comprehensive integrated support for the deployment of existing MCP servers and AI agents. This solution supports all major cloud platforms and development environments where MCP applications are deployed. For more information, please visit https://www.operant.ai/solutions/mcp-gateway
About Operant AI
Operant AI, the world's only runtime AI application defense platform, actively protects every layer of live cloud and AI applications from infrastructure to APIs. Unlike most cybersecurity tools that are limited to single-layer vision and lack the ability to actually block attacks, Operant's 3D runtime defense platform discovers, detects, and defends the top 10 top 10 of the most important attacks in APIs, clouds, and LLM. Within minutes of the single-step deployment of operant, security and AI engineering teams will gain a completely new level of aggressive protection for AI and cloud applications, workloads, models, APIs and agents, and develop frictionless real-time security, enabling businesses to deploy products and AI faster without preserving security.
