Bengaluru, June 17 , 2025 : Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime AI Defense Platform, has launched MCP Gateway, an expansion of its flagship product, AI Gatekeeper™ platform that secures AI systems built on the increasingly adopted Model Context Protocol (MCP). As more companies use open-source MCP servers and AI agents, MCP Gateway stands out as the only enterprise-grade solution that protects these critical workflows in real time, with the industry’s first active-blocking capabilities for API security.
With over 1,000 MCP servers deployed globally, MCP has become a key protocol enabling large language models (LLMs) to connect securely with external tools, APIs, and data systems. According to Gartner, by 2026, 75% of API gateway vendors and 50% of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) vendors will adopt MCP features—highlighting its role in AI-driven workflows. In India, where the AI market is projected to reach $17 billion by 2027 as per NASSCOM, MCP is gaining traction among enterprises in sectors like IT services, fintech, and healthcare.
However, this explosive growth has also introduced critical vulnerabilities. From prompt injection attacks to shadow AI deployments, organizations are grappling with a new wave of threat vectors—compounded by the rise of modular, multi-agent systems. As autonomous agents multiply, so do the risks, with limited visibility or control over how these agents behave, what data they access, and how they interact. This includes emerging attack paths such as inter-agent spoofing, where one compromised agent can manipulate or mislead others in the network.
MCP Gateway addresses these gaps by actively blocking threats and delivering real-time protection across every layer of the MCP stack—from local tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Desktop to enterprise AI agents running on AWS Bedrock, Azure, and Google Vertex AI.
“While MCP is a powerful AI integration framework, the growing adoption of open-source MCP servers also brings new challenges around security and governance,” said Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder of Operant AI. “Many organizations are deploying these tools without full visibility into their behavior, data access, or usage. MCP Gateway helps close this gap by providing enhanced security, observability, and control across the MCP ecosystem.”
Comprehensive Security for the AI Agent Era
Unlike traditional guardrails and static cyber-security tools, MCP Gateway is purpose-built for the inter-connected AI agent era, empowering organizations to safely and effectively leverage AI agents and MCPs through three core capabilities:
- MCP Discovery: Complete Visibility Into AI Agent Ecosystems
- Automatic real-time MCP tool catalogs and AI agent discovery across all environments
- Live traffic graphs and telemetry showing active access patterns between AI agent clients and MCP servers
- End-to-end visibility from development tools to cloud deployments, eliminating shadow MCP server blind spots
- Comprehensive discovery spanning coding agents to remote AI agents in multi-cloud environments
- MCP Detections: Advanced Threat Detection for AI-Specific Risks
- Real-time detection of sensitive data leakage to and from AI agents and MCP tools
- Identification of emerging agentic AI threat vectors, including tool poisoning, jailbreaks, and unauthorized access
- Supply chain security monitoring for vulnerabilities in local MCP servers and misconfigurations in remote servers
- Trust and risk scoring for all MCP servers in the environment
- MCP Defense: Proactive Protection and Governance
- Enforcement of MCP trust zones with live blocking of untrusted servers and tools
- Prevention of sensitive data and IP leakage through real-time flow blocking and auto-redaction
- Least privilege execution controls and granular access permissions for the MCP tool usage
- Centralized governance framework for enterprise-wide AI agent and tool management
- Rate limiting and encryption standard enforcement for all MCP communications
Ecosystem Partnership Strategy
Operant AI is launching the MCP Gateway with a comprehensive ecosystem partnership program designed to secure the entire MCP vendor landscape. Operant AI is working closely with MCP vendors and AI tool providers to deliver pre-integrated security tooling, helping partners secure their customers by embedding AI Gatekeeper’s runtime defenses directly into their MCP offerings.
“We’re not just securing MCP applications – we’re enabling the entire ecosystem,” said Ashley Roof, Co-Founder and CMO at Operant AI. “Our partnership approach mirrors our successful sales enablement programs with model providers, creating a security foundation that allows MCP vendors to serve enterprise customers confidently.”
MCP Gateway is currently available as part of the AI Gatekeeper platform, with comprehensive integration support for existing MCP servers and AI agent deployments. The solution supports all major cloud platforms and development environments where MCP applications are deployed.