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AI Gateway for LLMs and Agents
Picture a familiar rollout: a team wires their agent framework to a single AI gateway, expecting one deployment to solve model routing, cost tracking, and tool governance at once. Six weeks later, the model traffic is centralized and clean. The MCP servers the agents call are still wired in ad hoc, one Claude MCP add […]
What Are the Components of an MCP System?
Ask five sources what the main components of MCP are, and you’ll get three different answers: three, four, or five. That’s not a rounding error. Some are answering “who’s talking” and some are answering “what gets exchanged,” and most don’t say which question they’re actually answering. One widely cited comparison lists “tools, resources, prompts, transports, […]
What Is the Agentic Enterprise? A Definition for Security and IT Leaders
Most companies didn’t decide to become an agentic enterprise. They noticed, sometime in the last year, that an agent had started taking actions on a system nobody had reviewed for that specific purpose, and the label got applied after the fact to describe what was already happening. That sequence, capability arriving before anyone defined the […]
Why AI Transformation Fails Without Governance
Twenty-three percent of enterprises use agentic AI at least moderately today. Seventy-four percent expect to within two years. Twenty-one percent report having a mature governance model ready for it. That gap, between what companies are about to deploy and what they can actually supervise, is not a rounding error. It is the whole problem, stated […]
AI Governance Paralysis: Why Companies Get Stuck
Consider a composite of a pattern platform teams describe: a request to connect an agent to three internal tools sat in a review queue for eleven weeks. Nobody rejected it. Nobody approved it. By the time it resurfaced, the team that filed it had built the integration anyway, outside the process, because the process had […]
How to Detect Shadow AI in Your Organization
Most of the security stack already sitting in a typical environment was built to answer a narrower question than the one that matters now. DLP was built to stop a file from leaving through email. CASB was built to flag a new SaaS domain showing up in traffic. Neither was built to notice an employee […]
Shadow AI Risks: What Enterprises Need to Know
Ask a security leader how much financial data their employees are pasting into AI tools, and the answer will be wrong by a factor of nearly three. Ask the same question about API keys and credentials, and the estimate will be close to exact. That split isn’t a coincidence of what security teams happened to […]
Shadow MCP Servers: How Unapproved MCP Servers Create Enterprise Risk
A shadow MCP server doesn’t announce itself the way shadow IT used to. There’s no expense report line item, no new domain showing up in a CASB scan, no login page for a security team to stumble across. There’s a process running on a developer’s laptop or a personal cloud instance, talking to whatever internal […]
What Is Shadow AI? (And How It’s Different from Shadow IT)
Most security teams already run a monitoring stack built for the last problem. DLP watches for sensitive data leaving the network, and CASB flags unsanctioned SaaS. Both look for one signature: a new application showing up somewhere it wasn’t approved. Shadow AI doesn’t produce that signature. The traffic is often an encrypted session to a […]
MCP Server Governance: What Actually Gets Enforced, Not Just Written Down
In March 2026, one endpoint in nginx-ui’s MCP integration sat behind an IP allowlist and auth middleware. The endpoint next to it, the one that actually executed tool calls, including configuration writes and server restarts, had none. Shodan found more than 2,600 instances running that configuration in production. Nobody had decided the second endpoint needed […]
What Are MCP Tunnels? (And Why Vendor-Locked Tunnels Are a Problem)
The part of an MCP tunnel rollout that actually takes time isn’t opening the connection. It’s confirming, before anyone signs off, that the vendor providing the tunnel can’t read what passes through it. That question shows up in nearly every enterprise MCP security review once a private server is involved, and the answer depends entirely […]
Best MCP Gateways and AI Agent Security Tools (2026)
Comparing the best MCP gateway and ai agent security tool options for 2026, what each category actually governs, and how to pick between them.