{"slug": "kong-and-modelop-partner-to-deliver-zero-trust-security-for-the-agentic", "title": "Kong and ModelOp Partner to Deliver Zero-Trust Security for the Agentic Enterprise", "summary": "Kong and ModelOp have partnered to deliver zero-trust security for agentic enterprises, integrating Kong's AI Gateway with ModelOp's AI governance platform to enforce policy-based access control for AI tools and models. The partnership enables automated API route creation for approved AI use cases and native traffic blocking for unapproved ones, ensuring mathematically guaranteed security.", "body_md": "****Kong**** and ****ModelOp**** bridge this gap by seamlessly connecting governance intent with operational enforcement.\n\n****Kong**** is the industry's leading unified API/AI platform, purpose-built to bring APIs, AI traffic, event-driven systems, and microservices into one operating model. In the agentic era, Kong's AI Gateway serves as the critical infrastructure for routing, securing, and observing traffic to large language models (LLMs), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and agent-to-agent (A2A).\n\nKong AI Gateway helps organizations control costs with token-based throttling, reduces latency through semantic caching, manages and balances the load across multiple GenAI models and enforces the battle-tested runtime required to securely expose APIs and AI tools at a Fortune 500 scale. Kong AI Gateway also provides extensive capabilities to define guardrails, controls the MCP servers consumption with OAuth2 standards as well as protects sensitive personal information.\n\n****ModelOp**** is the Enterprise AI Command Center, providing a centralized AI System of Record for all machine learning, GenAI, and agentic models. Designed to cure AI delivery gridlock, ModelOp's AI Delivery Engine (MADE™) automates the end-to-end AI lifecycle. By orchestrating reviews and approvals across Data Science, Security, and Legal teams, ModelOp ensures 100% policy adherence and drastically accelerates time-to-value without requiring additional headcount.\n\nModelOp acts as the \"brain,\" evaluating AI use cases against corporate policies and calculating risk. When a tool is approved in ModelOp Center, it automatically triggers an integration with Kong, acting as the \"muscle\", to dynamically create an API route and allow traffic. If an AI tool is unapproved or revoked, Kong natively blocks all access, delivering mathematically guaranteed, zero-trust AI security.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kong-and-modelop-partner-to-deliver-zero-trust-security-for-the-agentic", "canonical_source": "https://konghq.com/blog/enterprise/kong-modelop-zero-trust-agentic-ai-governance", "published_at": "2026-07-16 20:53:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 21:01:45.126924+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Kong", "ModelOp", "Kong AI Gateway", "ModelOp Center", "ModelOp MADE"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kong-and-modelop-partner-to-deliver-zero-trust-security-for-the-agentic", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kong-and-modelop-partner-to-deliver-zero-trust-security-for-the-agentic.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kong-and-modelop-partner-to-deliver-zero-trust-security-for-the-agentic.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kong-and-modelop-partner-to-deliver-zero-trust-security-for-the-agentic.jsonld"}}