Learn: the Model Context Protocol for the enterprise
Clear, vendor-neutral guides to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and what it takes to run it in a real organization — the architecture, the security model, and the operational choices. Start with the fundamentals, then dig into security, governance and deployment.
Fundamentals
- What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? — the open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data.
- What is an MCP Gateway? — one governed surface in front of many MCP servers.
- What is an MCP Registry? — cataloguing and curating the tools, resources and prompts you expose.
- MCP Proxy — how a proxy brokers, secures and observes MCP traffic.
- MCP Reverse Proxy — fronting internal MCP servers with a single controlled entry point.
- MCP Gateway vs API Gateway — what's the same, what's different, and why MCP needs its own layer.
Security & governance
- MCP Authentication — proving who is calling, with SSO, OAuth 2.1 and tokens.
- MCP Authorization — deciding what each identity may reach, down to the tool.
- MCP Security — the threat model and the controls that address it.
- MCP Governance — policy, redaction, approvals and a tamper-evident audit trail.
- MCP Tool Poisoning & Rug-Pull Attacks — how malicious tool definitions attack agents, and how to defend.
Enterprise & operations
- Enterprise MCP Architecture — a reference architecture for MCP at scale.
- MCP for Regulated Industries — adopting MCP under banking, healthcare and public-sector constraints.
- MCP Observability & Auditing — tracing, metrics and audit for every MCP call.
- Running MCP On-Premise — keeping prompts, context and data inside your perimeter.
- Deploying MCP in Kubernetes — running an MCP gateway on your own cluster.
- MCP Best Practices — a practical checklist for adopting MCP safely.
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