Operant AI Inc., a startup that offers a runtime application protection platform, today announced the launch of MCP Gateway, an expansion of its AI Gatekeeper platform that offers comprehensive security for Model Context Protocol applications.
The company says its MCP Gateway is the first enterprise-grade solution to secure MCP servers and AI agents across infrastructure at runtime. It does so with real-time discovery, detection and defense for every layer of the MCP stack, from local development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Desktop to remote AI agents deployed across Kubernetes, AWS Bedrock, Azure and Google Vertex AI.
MCP is an emerging open-source framework that allows AI agents and tools to communicate and share context during runtime, allowing for more dynamic and integrated AI workflows. Its popularity has surged as enterprises adopt agentic AI systems across cloud and development environments, driving demand for standardized, interoperable communication between models and tools.
The growing popularity of MCP, however, also introduces new challenges, which is where Operant AI’s new offering enters the picture.
“The widespread adoption of open-source MCP servers represents one of the most significant security challenges facing enterprises today,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Vrajesh Bhavsar. “Organizations are deploying these powerful AI tools without visibility into what they’re doing, what data they’re accessing, or how they’re being used. MCP Gateway changes that by bringing comprehensive security, governance and visibility to the entire MCP ecosystem.”
MCP Gateway is designed to help organizations safely adopt and manage AI agents and MCP tools by delivering security across the entire lifecycle, from code development to cloud deployment. The service provides enterprise-grade visibility, threat detection and governance to ensure AI systems operate within secure, trusted boundaries.
The new MCP Gateway service offers various features, including MCP Discovery, a feature that automatically catalogs MCP tools and agents in real time across local and cloud environments, generating live traffic graphs and telemetry to expose access patterns. Doing so eliminates blind spots and highlights interactions from coding environments to multicloud deployments.
Another feature, MCP Detections, offers advanced threat detection tailored to AI-specific risks. The system identifies sensitive data leaks, agentic AI threats such as jailbreaks and tool poisoning and tracks vulnerabilities in both local and remote MCP servers.
The last feature, called MCP Defense, offers protection via real-time enforcement of trust zones which blocks unverified tools and prevents data leaks through flow controls and redaction. With the feature, organizations can apply least privilege access, centralized policy governance and encryption standards to maintain tight control over MCP usage and communications.
Operant is launching the MCP Gateway with a comprehensive ecosystem partnership program designed to secure the entire MCP vendor landscape. Operant is also working closely with MCP vendors and AI tool providers to deliver integrated security tooling, helping partners secure their customers by embedding AI Gatekeeper’s runtime defenses directly into their MCP offerings.
MCP Gateway is now available as part of Operant’s AI Gatekeeper platform, with comprehensive integration support for existing MCP servers and AI agent deployments.
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