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How to Evaluate an MCP Gateway: 10 Questions to Ask Your Vendor
Demo-ready is not production-ready. Ten due-diligence questions — deployment, credentials, determinism, policy, audit, TCO — plus a two-week PoC protocol.
MCP gateways, on-premise AI security, enterprise data governance — written by the ArcaX engineering team, no marketing fluff.
· 10 min read
Demo-ready is not production-ready. Ten due-diligence questions — deployment, credentials, determinism, policy, audit, TCO — plus a two-week PoC protocol.
· 9 min read
Agent integration ROI is measurable. A four-metric framework — time-to-source, engineer hours, cost per call, audit evidence — with a worked banking example.
· 8 min read
An MCP gateway is a control layer between AI agents and enterprise systems. How it works, how it differs from iPaaS, and a 7-point evaluation checklist.
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MuleSoft integrates apps with flows; an MCP gateway connects agents with governed tools. A decision framework — with TCO angles — for when to complement and when to replace.
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Identity, posture, behavior, injection defense, audit evidence — the 12 controls that make on-premise AI agents governable, not just runnable.
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Every new agent touchpoint can grow the PCI-DSS footprint. How on-premise MCP gateways keep agent access inside a small, auditable boundary — with the evidence package your QSA will ask for.
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PHI access is the most audited surface in hospital IT. How on-premise MCP gateways give agents clinical tools instead of database access — with per-call evidence for the HIPAA Security Rule.
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Sovereignty is an architecture, not a slogan: no egress paths, local identity control, full offline lifecycle — the deployment checklist for air-gapped agent stacks.