MCP Registry

As organizations stand up dozens of MCP servers across teams, an authoritative registry becomes essential. It records what exists, who owns it, how it is authenticated, and what risk score it carries.

MCP registries typically track:

• Inventory: Server names, owners, endpoints, and supported tools.
• Provenance: Source repositories, build provenance, and signing metadata.
• Risk score: Continuous evaluation against known vulnerabilities and posture findings.
• Approval state: Whether the server is permitted for production agent use.
• Usage telemetry: Which agents and users call the server and at what rates.

An MCP registry is most useful when it acts as a control plane rather than a static list, gating which servers may be used in production and continuously updating risk scores. Without that, registries become inventory documents that quickly fall out of date.

Programs that operate registries well also tie them to the change management system, so server retirement and risk re-evaluation happen continuously rather than as one-off projects.

How PointGuard AI Helps

PointGuard's MCP Security Gateway maintains an enterprise MCP registry that combines inventory, provenance, and runtime telemetry, with feed-through into AI Security Posture Management. The combination treats the registry as a living control plane that operators can trust as the basis for production decisions.

Learn More

• Wikipedia: Model Context Protocol
• OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
• MITRE ATLAS