Operant AI, a leader in runtime AI defense, announced the launch of MCP Gateway on June 16, 2025, as an expansion of its AI Gatekeeper™ platform. This enterprise-grade solution secures Model Context Protocol (MCP) applications, addressing critical security gaps as organizations rapidly adopt open-source MCP servers and AI agents. MCP Gateway delivers real-time discovery, detection, and defense across the MCP stack, from local tools like GitHub Copilot to cloud-based AI agents on platforms like AWS Bedrock and Azure.
MCP Gateway secures MCP applications with real-time runtime protection.
Offers discovery, threat detection, and defense for AI agent ecosystems.
Supports major cloud platforms and development environments.
Features trust scoring, data leakage prevention, and governance controls.
Includes ecosystem partnerships to embed security in MCP vendor offerings.
Addresses AI-specific risks like tool poisoning and jailbreaks.
MCP Gateway is the first enterprise-grade solution to secure MCP workflows at runtime, addressing the security challenges posed by the widespread adoption of open-source MCP servers. Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder of Operant AI, stated, "The widespread adoption of open-source MCP servers represents one of the most significant security challenges facing enterprises today." The platform provides visibility and protection across local and cloud-based AI agents, ensuring secure integration with tools like Claude Desktop and Kubernetes deployments.
MCP Discovery: Automatically catalogs MCP tools and AI agents in real time, providing live traffic graphs and telemetry to eliminate blind spots across development and cloud environments.
MCP Detections: Identifies AI-specific threats, including sensitive data leaks, tool poisoning, jailbreaks, and unauthorized access, with supply chain monitoring for vulnerabilities.
MCP Defense: Enforces trust zones, blocks unverified tools, and prevents data leakage through real-time flow controls, auto-redaction, and granular access permissions.
Governance: Offers centralized management with rate limiting and encryption standards for secure MCP communications.
Operant AI is launching MCP Gateway with a robust partnership program to secure the MCP vendor landscape. By collaborating with MCP vendors and AI tool providers, Operant embeds AI Gatekeeper’s runtime defenses into their offerings. Ashley Roof, CMO and co-founder, said, "We're not just securing MCP applications – we're enabling the entire ecosystem." This approach ensures vendors can confidently serve enterprise customers with pre-integrated security tools.
As MCP adoption grows, enterprises face risks like prompt injection and tool poisoning. MCP Gateway’s 3D Runtime Defense Platform mitigates over 80% of OWASP Top 10 attacks across APIs, cloud, and LLMs, providing real-time protection for AI workflows. Its support for major cloud platforms ensures seamless integration, enabling organizations to deploy AI agents securely without compromising performance.
Operant AI’s MCP Gateway positions the company as a leader in securing enterprise AI ecosystems. By offering comprehensive visibility, advanced threat detection, and proactive defense, MCP Gateway enables organizations to leverage MCP applications safely, fostering secure and scalable AI-driven innovation across industries.
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 tooling that is limited to single-layer visibility and lacks the ability to actually block attacks, Operant’s 3D Runtime Defense Platform discovers, detects, and defends >80% of the OWASP Top 10 most critical attacks across APIs, Cloud and LLMs. Within minutes of Operant’s single-step deployment, security and AI engineering teams gain a completely new level of active protection for their AI and Cloud applications, workloads, models, APIs, and Agents, bringing frictionless real-time security to dev, sec, and ops so that companies can deploy products and AI faster without security holding them back.
Operant AI is a Series A company funded by Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm Felicis and Washington DC venture capital firm SineWave. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded by Vrajesh Bhavsar, Dr. Priyanka Tembey, and Ashley Roof, industry experts from Apple, VMWare and Google (respectively). Operant AI was recently named as a representative vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM).
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