MCP in Kong Konnect
Exploring the power of MCP (Model Context Protocol) but concerned about security and control? This video provides a hands-on demonstration of how you can leverage the robust capabilities of the Kong Konnect platform to protect your MCP endpoints.
Kong's Jason Matis walks through the critical steps for securing MCP. You'll learn how standard API gateway policies and plugins can be applied to AI and MCP-based connections to prevent issues like runaway agents or incorrect data manipulation. Jason demonstrates how to enforce security, ensure observability, and govern every transaction that flows through your MCP server.
In this video, you will learn:
- How to protect an MCP server.
- How MCP requests can be routed through Kong to provide a protective layer for your backend APIs, such as the Konnect Admin API.
- Methods for governing MCP endpoints by applying policies like rate-limiting or restricting requests to read-only access to prevent unauthorized changes.
- How to use the AI Gateway dashboard in Konnect to gain full observability into MCP usage, including which endpoints are being used and by whom.
- A practical demonstration of a user interacting with a chatbot, which securely connects to an MCP server managed and observed by Kong Konnect.
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