Innovative 3D Runtime Defense Technology Addresses critical security blind spots as MCP adoption explodes across enterprise AI workflows
Operant AI, the world's only runtime AI defense platform, has announced the launch of MCP Gateway, a groundbreaking expansion of the flagship AI Gatekeeper™ 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.
MCP Gateway introduces real-time discovery, detection, and defense to remote AI agents deployed from local development tools such as Github Copilot and Claude Desktop to Kubernetes, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Google Vertex AI, and more.
Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder of Operant AI, said: “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.”
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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.
“It's not just about securing MCP applications, it's enabling the entire ecosystem,” says Ashley Roof, co-founder of CMO and 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.”
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