Gateways are All You Need — Karan Sampath, Anthropic

MCPs are often flaky, face multiple security vulnerabilities, and are generally hard to scale. Most enterprises struggle to use more than single digit numbers of MCPs due to issues with security, observability, and access control. In this talk, we'll explore the approaches and learnings we at Anthropic have been taking to solve this, and make MCPs more enterprise ready. Speaker info: - https://x.com/karan_sampath - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karansampath/ - https://github.com/karansampath Timestamps: 00:00:14 - Introduction: Enterprise MCP challenges. 00:01:13 - Enterprise Hurdles: Observability, access control, and security (the "three-headed hydra"). 00:03:35 - Deployment Bottlenecks: Scalability limits of current decentralized models. 00:05:35 - The Case for Gateways: Establishing a unified "root of trust." 00:07:00 - Gateway Definition: A middleware layer for auth, proxying, and routing. 00:08:28 - Core Components: Implementing OAuth, tunnels, and developer CLIs. 00:10:03 - Strategic Benefits: Improved authentication and standardized access control. 00:11:30 - Operational Gains: Multi-surface integration, security, and faster iteration. 00:15:13 - Future Vision: Decoupling agent architecture from data layers. 00:16:58 - Summary: Invest in common infrastructure to scale enterprise agents.