How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

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How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it
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Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.

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