MCP Gateway

Six best practices for MCP server governance, covering tool access control, authentication, approval gating and audit logging.

TL;DR * An MCP gateway is the control plane that governs, secures, and cost-optimizes every Model Context Protocol server behind one endpoint. * Bifrost connects to MCP servers over STDIO, HTTP, or SSE and exposes every permitted tool through a single /mcp endpoint. * Bifrost supports six MCP authentication types, and

TL;DR * Ungoverned MCP connections are direct links between AI apps and Model Context Protocol servers with no central authentication, access control, or logging in between. * The risks are concrete: CVE-2025-49596 in MCP Inspector allowed unauthenticated remote code execution and is rated CVSS 9.4. * Bifrost, as an

TL;DR * Remote MCP servers are SaaS-hosted Model Context Protocol servers that AI clients reach over HTTP or Server-Sent Events, instead of spawning them as local processes over STDIO. * Wiring every team to every remote MCP server directly produces credential sprawl, no per-team access control, no audit

TL;DR * Shadow MCP servers are Model Context Protocol connections wired into AI apps on employee machines without organizational visibility, and they can read files, call internal APIs, and take actions on the user's behalf. * The exposure is measured, not theoretical: a July 2025 internet-wide scan by

A capability-first guide to MCP gateways in 2026, covering the six things they do and what to ask when evaluating one.