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title: "Enterprise Managed Authorization (EMA) · Highflame Glossary"
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# Enterprise Managed Authorization (EMA)

An MCP extension that lets a company's identity provider decide, through corporate SSO, which MCP servers an agent may connect to. It governs admission, not what the agent does once inside.

Learn more: [Enterprise Managed Authorization](/learn/enterprise-managed-authorization.md)

Part of [the Agent Control Fabric](/platform.md): Highflame's identity, policy, and enforcement substrate for AI agents.

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## Keep exploring the glossary.

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### Guardrails

Inline detection and enforcement on an agent's prompts, tool calls, and responses: blocking unsafe actions in real time.

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### ID-JAG

Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant. After SSO, the identity provider evaluates policy and issues an ID-JAG, which an MCP client exchanges for a server access token: the mechanism behind Enterprise Managed Authorization.

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### Identity provider (IdP)

The system that issues and manages identities. Highflame extends your existing IdP to agents rather than replacing it.

Read →](/glossary/idp.md)[

### Inline enforcement

Evaluating and deciding on an action before it executes, out-of-band, rather than detecting it after the fact. Fail posture (open or closed) is set per surface.

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### Just-in-time (JIT) access

Issuing short-lived, task-scoped credentials on demand that expire when the work is done: eliminating standing access there's nothing to leak or over-grant.

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### LLM firewall

A checkpoint in front of a model that inspects prompts and responses for injection, sensitive data, and unsafe content. It guards the model's edge, not the agent's actions behind it.

Read →](/glossary/llm-firewall.md)

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