MCP Is Becoming the New Attack SurfaceModel Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming one of the mostimportant building...

MCP Is Becoming the New Attack SurfaceModel Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming one of the mostimportant building blocks in the agentic AI ecosystem.It gives AI agents a standardized way to connect to external tools, datasources, APIs, filesystems, databases, SaaS platforms, and enterprisesystems.That sounds like a productivity revolution.It is.But it also creates something security teams need to think about:A new attack surface.The interesting part isn't simply that MCP introduces another protocol.The bigger change is that an AI model can now move from:"Generate an answer"to:"Decide what action to take, select a tool, provide parameters,retrieve information, and potentially change something in an externalsystem."That changes the security model. The Traditional Application Security ModelFor years, we have secured architectures that look something like this:User | vApplication | vAPI | vDatabaseSecurity controls are relatively well understood: Authentication Authorization Input v...