MCP Dev Summit North America

Many MCP servers aren't public - they're internal enterprise deployments where security, compliance, and safety aren't optional. Yet MCP currently lacks standardized middleware patterns, forcing teams into shared libraries and bespoke solutions that recreate the NxM problem.

Context middleware lets us intercept, inspect, and transform MCP traffic at trust boundaries. Just as tools were key to end-user MCP adoption, standardized middleware can unlock it for regulated industries: PII redaction, audit logging, prompt injection defense, hallucination detection - all without vendor lock-in or security gaps.

For the emerging gateway and proxy ecosystem, this opens new market opportunities: standardized integration points that transform MCP infrastructure into a composable, enterprise-grade platform.

This talk presents a working implementation as used at a major financial institution, including demos of attack prevention and real-world findings. You'll leave understanding the architecture, the extension, the trust boundary considerations, and how to start building context-aware middleware today.