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How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it
Cloudflare is adding new controls to its Zero Trust platform to help security teams monitor and manage AI agent traffic using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The new tools include a Gateway selector that detects MCP traffic based on protocol headers, a dashboard showing which hosts and users are generating that traffic, and Traffic Source selectors that let administrators distinguish requests routed through approved MCP Server Portals from direct connections that bypass them. MCP Portals now also support pre-registered OAuth clients, covering providers that require a fixed client ID and secret rather than dynamic registration. Private network connectivity for MCP Portals is in development.
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