Securing the MCP Gateway: Lasso Partners with Portkey to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI Protection

Portkey and Lasso Security have partnered to enhance the security of Portkey's MCP Gateway, integrating AI security to provide real-time guardrails, threat detection, and governance enforcement. The MCP Gateway centralizes authentication, authorization, and observability for MCP deployments, solving infrastructure challenges like unified authentication, granular access control, and centralized policy enforcement. Lasso extends these capabilities with runtime security intelligence, including identity-aware threat detection, adversarial prompt detection, and real-time anomaly detection. This integration addresses security concerns in MCP environments, where AI agents connect to external tools and systems, creating potential vulnerabilities. Lasso's AI security engine is embedded directly into the MCP Gateway's request pipeline, providing prompt injection defense, intent-based access control, data exfiltration prevention, supply chain risk assessment, and real-time guardrails enforcement. The partnership offers enterprise security teams a single control point for MCP security, allowing centralized visibility and consistent policy enforcement across AI activities without architectural changes, ensuring that as organizations expand their AI deployments, security measures effectively scale alongside.