AI Agent Gateway
A dedicated control plane situated between the AI orchestration layer and enterprise tools. It intercepts every request, verifies agent identity, enforces security policies, records audit logs, and scores risk with respect to confused deputy attacks.
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Traditional API gateways use static API keys and global or service-level scopes with no context, whereas AI agent gateways use ephemeral JWTs, scopes divided by task, and carry human delegation context.
In a zero trust architecture, the AI agent gateway plays the role of a policy enforcement point (PEP), and the identity provider and policy engine constitute the policy decision point (PDP).
Enterprises should enforce mutual TLS (mTLS) and ensure that target systems only accept traffic from the gateway IP and carrying the gateway's cryptographic signature, in order to prevent agents from bypassing the gateway to execute tool calls.
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Traditional API gateways use static API keys and global or service-level scopes with no context, whereas AI agent gateways use ephemeral JWTs, scopes divided by task, and carry human delegation context.
50%UnverifiedIn a zero trust architecture, the AI agent gateway plays the role of a policy enforcement point (PEP), and the identity provider and policy engine constitute the policy decision point (PDP).
50%UnverifiedEnterprises should enforce mutual TLS (mTLS) and ensure that target systems only accept traffic from the gateway IP and carrying the gateway's cryptographic signature, in order to prevent agents from bypassing the gateway to execute tool calls.
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