Secure AI Integration with Kiteworks MCP Server
The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server enables CISOs, Solutions Architects, and AI Architects to deploy AI-powered workflows without compromising data security or compliance requirements. Connect Claude, Copilot, and other AI clients to your Kiteworks platform through Model Context Protocol (MCP), ensuring every AI interaction respects your role-based and attribute-based access controls. Your teams gain AI productivity. Your organization gains comprehensive audit logging, encryption, and regulatory compliance across frameworks such as HIPAA, GDPR, and CMMC.
MCP Enables AI Chat and Agent Access to Kiteworks
The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server transforms how your organization leverages AI by bridging the gap between powerful language models and your sensitive data. Through standards-based MCP integration, you can securely connect AI agents and clients to your Kiteworks control plane for secure data exchange, enabling natural language interactions with files and folders while maintaining governance controls. Your teams streamline document analysis, content generation, and workflow automation without exposing sensitive data beyond your security perimeter.
AI Without Compromise
Security leaders in highly regulated industries face an impossible choice: enable AI innovation or protect sensitive data. The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server eliminates this tradeoff by keeping your sensitive data within your control plane for secure data exchange while AI assistants access only what your governance policies allow.
Your workforce gains transformative AI capabilities for document review, contract analysis, and content creation, while your security team maintains complete visibility and control. The result is measurable productivity gains without compliance risk or data exposure.
Governance That Scales with AI
Kiteworks enforces enterprise role-based and attribute-based access controls on every AI data interaction, extending your existing governance framework to every AI operation. When AI assistants request file access, your Data Policy Engine automatically enforces data access policies leveraging real-time context and data classification labels. Comprehensive audit logs capture every interaction for compliance reporting and forensic analysis, feeding directly into your SIEM infrastructure. This governance-first approach reduces shadow AI risk while demonstrating regulatory compliance to auditors.
Enterprise-Grade Security by Design
- Access token protection: Store tokens in the encrypted OS keystore instead of environment variables.
- OAuth 2.1 hardening: Dynamic client registration, authorization code with PKCE, JWT access/refresh tokens, automatic token rotation.
- FIPS 140-3 cryptography: AES-256-GCM, RSA with SHA-256, TLS 1.3 with NIST-approved curves.
- Post-quantum forward secrecy: Hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-768 TLS key exchange (FIPS 203).
- Rate limiting controls: Configurable global, per-user, and per-session quotas.
- Path traversal protection: Normalize and validate all filesystem paths.
- Data and secret isolation: Never expose credentials or transferred payloads to the LLM.
- TLS authenticity: Enforce certificate validation and hostname verification to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
Frictionless Integration, Immediate Impact
Traditional AI security solutions require months of deployment and complex infrastructure changes. The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server deploys in hours with native binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS, enabling immediate productivity gains without disrupting existing workflows. Standards-based Model Context Protocol architecture ensures compatibility with leading AI platforms while futureproofing your investment. Simple OAuth 2.0 setup with automatic credential refresh means your teams start using AI-powered document workflows on day one, accelerating time-to-value and reducing implementation costs.
Build Compliant Forms in Seconds: Just Ask Claude
With the Kiteworks MCP Server, your teams can generate sophisticated Secure Data Forms in seconds simply by asking Claude. Point Claude at a PDF, image, or text description, and it drafts and previews a complete form as structured JSON, delivered straight to a governed Kiteworks folder. Every new form inherits your platform’s role-based and attribute-based access controls, double encryption, and unified audit log, turning AI-accelerated form building into a fully compliant, governance-first data collection workflow.
Connecting to Your Private Kiteworks MCP Server
Every Kiteworks customer runs an independent, single-tenant cloud instance, so each organization deploys its own private Kiteworks MCP server. Setup takes three steps:
- Install the server: Get it from github.com/kiteworks/mcp.
- Add it to your organization: Your Claude owner registers it under Organization settings > Connectors.
- Connect as an end user: Each user enables it in their Claude web or desktop client under Customize > Connectors.
Your private MCP server won’t appear in Anthropic’s public connector directory; that’s for multi-tenant SaaS apps. By design, your single-tenant Kiteworks environment stays private to your authorized users.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server bridges the gap between powerful language models and sensitive data through standards-based MCP integration, allowing secure connections for AI agents and clients to the Kiteworks data control plane. This enables natural language interactions with files and folders while maintaining governance controls.
The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server allows security leaders to enable AI innovation without compromising data security. It keeps sensitive data within the hardened Kiteworks platform, allowing AI assistants to access data according to governance policies, resulting in productivity gains without compliance risks.
The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server enforces enterprise role-based and attribute-based access controls on AI data interactions, extending existing governance frameworks to every AI operation. It uses a Data Policy Engine to enforce data access policies and provides comprehensive audit logs for compliance reporting and forensic analysis, feeding into SIEM infrastructure.
The Kiteworks Secure MCP Server is built on a FedRAMP Authorized hardened virtual appliance architecture, implementing defense-in-depth security with end-to-end encryption, OAuth 2.0 authentication, rate limiting, and TLS certificate validation. This ensures protection against external threats and insider risks while supporting HIPAA, GDPR, and FISMA compliance.
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