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title: "Barndoor.ai – The Control Plane for Agentic AI"
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# Barndoor.ai: The Control Plane for Agentic AI
**Barndoor** is the unified access and policy engine for **AI + MCP security**—enabling safe, scalable deployment across enterprise systems.
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**Adopt AI Safely with MCP Security**
Controlled MCP access grants you the guardrails needed to trust AI apps with your most important enterprise systems and drive results:
- **Faster Time to Value**: Seamlessly connect AI applications & MCP servers
- **Safer AI Adoption**: Reduce risk with granular, enforced policies
- **Scale Confidently**: Manage AI safely, at any stage of growth
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## Why MCP Security Matters
## **MCP unlocks critical business context**
Give AI apps contextual access to enterprise systems—_but_...
## **Uncontrolled access = Unacceptable risk**
Without controls, AI apps may read, write, or delete without limits.
## **Siloed adoption**
Businesses curb deployment for safety—limiting their ROI.
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## The Barndoor Solution
## **Policy-Based Access Controls**
- Enforce usage by user, role, application, and system
- Prevent destructive or unauthorized actions (e.g., deletes, writes)
- Align every AI call with the right permissions
## **Centralized Visibility & Auditing**
- Real-time monitoring, immutable logs, and compliance automation
- Full audit trails for every action, every user
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# Getting Started
## Connect AI Applications & MCP Servers
- **Bring Any AI App:** Internal or third-party—connect them in clicks
- **MCP Server Management:** Secure connections, instant on/off control
## Fine-Grained Control Over Every Action
- **Block Risky Operations:** Prevent data loss or unauthorized changes
- **Align to Policy:** Map each action to system, role, and user
## Enterprise Integration
- Built-in **authentication** to MCP servers
- Supports **SSO** providers
- Inherits **IAM & IdP** policies
- Feeds into your existing **logging & monitoring** tools
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# Benefits by Team
- **IT Admins:** Register MCPs, define policies, monitor usage centrally
- **Security:** Detect drift, monitor agents, export compliance reports
- **Business Users:** Safe, pre-approved AI tools that drive results
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# Solutions
- [AI & MCP Control Plane](https://barndoor.ai/#mcp-security)
# Resources
- [Blog](https://barndoor.ai/blog/)
- [Press](https://barndoor.ai/newsroom/)
# Company
- [About Us](https://barndoor.ai/about-us/)
- [Careers](https://barndoor.ai/careers/)
# Enterprise AI Tools
- [Directory](https://barndoor.ai/ai-tools/)
- [Submit a Tool](https://barndoor.ai/submit-a-tool/)
- [Request an Update](https://barndoor.ai/request-an-update/)
- [Suggest a Feature](https://barndoor.ai/request-a-feature/)
# Social
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/barndoor-ai/)
- [X (Twitter)](https://x.com/BarndoorAI)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/share/1Aj2WPQwMN/?mibextid=wwXIfr)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/barndoorai/)
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