Securing MCP servers before the AI rollout outpaces security

Your company’s CTO has a plan to implement your company’s first LLM-based application. The board approved it, and now you’re finding out about it. It’s a typical story I hear all the time, and I’ve lived it myself. You’ve heard everything about models and LLMs, but now you see this new term all over the place: Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers —and the realization that you now need to make sure they are implemente…

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