AI agent governance

Govern AI Agents Across LLMs, APIs, and MCP Servers

Secure AI agent access to LLM providers, MCP servers, SaaS apps, internal APIs, and enterprise tools with identity-aware policies, rate limits, budget controls, credential brokering, and audit logs.

Datawiza Agent Gateway governing AI agent access

Governance gap

AI agents already have access. Governance has not caught up.

Agents can already search data, call APIs, update tickets, trigger workflows, and act across SaaS and internal systems. In many enterprises, those connections are still held together with direct endpoints, broad tokens, and inconsistent controls.

Identity gap

No reliable way to tie an agent action back to a real user

Policy gap

No central control over which tools or actions an agent can use

Audit gap

No audit-ready record when something goes wrong

Agent Gateway

What is Agent Gateway?

Agent Gateway is the inline enforcement layer for AI agents. It gives enterprises one place to control access, broker credentials, and audit agent activity across MCP servers, APIs, SaaS apps, and internal tools.

Control access

Decide which agents can reach which tools, APIs, and resources based on the real user, the agent, the action, and the environment.

Broker credentials

Exchange or inject the right downstream credential at runtime so agents never hold API keys, OAuth tokens, or service credentials directly.

Audit every action

Record who initiated the action, which policy applied, what the agent attempted, and whether it was allowed, denied, or routed for approval.

Built for teams

Built for security and IT teams

Security teams

Centralize policy for agent access across tools and systems. Reduce overprivileged integrations, hidden credentials, and ungoverned actions.

IAM and platform teams

Extend enterprise identity into agent workflows. Enforce least privilege, manage downstream credentials safely, and avoid custom security work in every connector.

IT leadership

Roll out AI-enabled workflows without losing control. Standardize governance, reduce operational risk, and speed adoption.

Delivery

What Agent Gateway delivers

Centralized control

Route agent-to-tool traffic through one enforcement layer instead of relying on each MCP server, API, or SaaS connector to implement security differently.

Identity-aware policy

Evaluate access using both agent identity and real user identity from Entra ID, Okta, AWS, or any OIDC/SAML provider.

Credential brokering

Handle federated token exchange, OAuth token management, and vaulted credentials for legacy systems. Agents never hold secrets.

Least privilege

Control what each agent can do at the tool, action, endpoint, or resource level. Allow what is needed and deny the rest by default.

Guardrails and approvals

Require stronger controls for sensitive actions such as bulk exports, destructive updates, or high-risk workflows.

Audit-ready observability

Capture who initiated an interaction, what was attempted, what policy applied, and what happened next.

Deployment

Deployment options

On-premises

Keep traffic and control points inside your datacenter or private network.

Private / public cloud

Run in your own AWS, Azure, or GCP environment close to the agents, tools, MCP servers, or internal APIs you need to govern.

Datawiza-hosted

Adopt quickly with a managed deployment option from Datawiza.

Coverage

One gateway across agents, tools, and protocols

The same identity, policy, and audit model applies everywhere - regardless of protocol. Agents connecting to a Salesforce MCP server and agents calling a ServiceNow REST API go through the same governance layer.

MCP servers

Internal and SaaS-hosted MCP servers.

APIs

Enterprise REST and HTTP APIs.

SaaS applications

Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, and other SaaS applications.

Internal systems

Internal tools, services, and custom integrations.

Workflow

How it works

In common proxy-based deployments, the main change is routing agent traffic through the Datawiza Agent Gateway instead of directly to the target tool or system.

1Agents connect through DatawizaAI agents, copilots, assistants, and agent frameworks send requests through Agent Gateway rather than connecting directly to tools and systems.
2Identity and context are establishedEach request is tied to agent identity, end-user identity, team or application context, target system, environment, and requested action.
3Policy is evaluated in real timeDatawiza checks whether the request should be allowed, denied, constrained, or routed for approval based on identity, role, tool, action, parameters, and risk conditions.
4Credentials are brokeredFor approved requests, the gateway handles downstream authentication with token exchange, OAuth token injection, or vaulted credentials.
5Approved actions proceedOnly requests that satisfy policy reach the downstream MCP server, API, SaaS app, or internal service.
6Everything is recordedEvery decision, request path, and outcome is logged for governance, operations, and investigations.

Use cases

Common use cases

Govern MCP server access

Put Agent Gateway in front of internal or external MCP servers that do not have enterprise-grade access control.

Secure internal agent APIs

Expose internal services to agents without issuing broad credentials.

Protect SaaS actions

Govern how agents interact with Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Jira, Salesforce, and similar platforms.

Add approval to risky actions

Require human review before destructive operations, sensitive data exports, or business-critical workflow changes are executed.

Create a system of record

Build an audit trail for agent behavior across tools and systems, with exports to your SIEM and compliance workflows.

Why Datawiza

No-code deployment model

Secure agent access by routing traffic through the gateway instead of modifying every agent or downstream system.

Identity-first enforcement

Carry real user identity and agent identity into every policy decision.

Credential brokering built in

Handle token exchange, OAuth lifecycle management, and vaulted secrets without exposing credentials to agents.

Next step

Looking specifically for MCP governance?

Datawiza MCP Gateway is a focused solution built on Agent Gateway for organizations that want dedicated control over MCP traffic, tool-level policy, token brokering, and audit visibility.

Explore MCP Gateway

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Agent Gateway only for MCP?

No. MCP is an important and rapidly growing access pattern, but Agent Gateway is designed to govern agent access across MCP servers, REST APIs, SaaS tools, internal services, and agent-to-agent protocols like Google A2A.

How is this different from an API gateway?

API gateways were built for application and service traffic. Agent Gateway is built for agent-mediated access, where the gateway needs to understand the real user behind the agent, apply tool- and action-level policy, broker downstream credentials, support approvals, and create an audit record for each action.

Can Agent Gateway work with agents we did not build ourselves?

Yes. Agent Gateway is designed to sit inline between agents and the systems they access, so it can govern third-party agents, internal copilots, MCP clients, and custom agent frameworks without requiring code changes to the downstream systems.

Do we need to change our agents or MCP servers?

No. Agent Gateway deploys inline as a proxy. The only change is pointing the agent's endpoint URL from the direct system to the gateway URL. No SDK, no code changes to the agent, no code changes to the downstream system. This is the same no-code deployment model Datawiza uses for identity modernization.

How does the gateway handle credentials for downstream systems?

The gateway supports three patterns: federated token exchange for cloud-native services (Entra ID OBO, AWS STS AssumeRole, Google impersonation, RFC 8693), OAuth linking with a secure vault for SaaS platforms where users authenticate once and the gateway manages the token lifecycle, and a credential vault for legacy systems that only accept API keys or PATs. Agents never see or hold any downstream credentials.

Which identity providers are supported?

Datawiza supports Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM via OIDC federation, Okta, Ping Identity, and any standard OIDC or SAML identity provider. The gateway maps enterprise identities to agent sessions regardless of which IdP you use.

Who is this for?

Security teams, IAM teams, platform engineering teams, and IT leaders responsible for governing AI agent deployments in production environments.

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BlogMay 18, 2026