San Francisco, June 16, 2025 (Globe Newswire) – Operant AI, the world's only runtime AI defense platform, announced today the launch of MCP Gateway, A groundbreaking expansion of the flagship AI GateKeeper™ A platform that provides comprehensive security for Model Context Protocol (MCP) applications. As organizations rapidly adopt open source MCP servers and AI agents across their infrastructure, MCP Gateway offers the first enterprise-grade solution to protect these critical AI workflows at runtime.
Introducing the MCP Gateway Real-time discovery, detection, and defense For all layers of the MCP stack, from local development tools such as Github Copilot and Claude Desktop to remote AI agents deployed on Kubernetes, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Google Vertex AI, and more.
“The widespread adoption of open source MCP servers represents one of the most important security challenges facing businesses today,” says Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder of Operant AI. “Organisations are deploying these powerful AI tools without visibility into what they are doing, what data they are accessing, and how they are being used. MCP gateways are changed by bringing comprehensive security, governance and visibility across the MCP ecosystem.”
MCP Gateway is dedicated to ensuring organizations can safely and effectively leverage AI agents and MCPs by providing robust security throughout their lifecycle.
The main features are:
- 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 is launching MCP Gateways with a comprehensive ecosystem partnership program designed to ensure the entire landscape of MCP vendors. Operant works closely with MCP vendors and AI tool providers to provide pre-integrated security tools and help protect customers by incorporating AI gatekeeper runtime defenses directly into MCP products.
“We're not just protecting MCP applications, we're enabling the entire ecosystem,” says Ashley Roof, CMO and co-founder 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.
Operant AI is a Series A company funded by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Felicys and Washington, DC venture capital firm Sinewave. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, it was founded by industry experts at Apple, VMware and Google, Vrajesh Bhavsar, Dr. Priyanka Tembey and Ashley Roof (each). Operant AI was recently appointed as the leading vendor of the Gartner's Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRISM).
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