mcp-security
Safeguard articles tagged "mcp-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Securing MCP integrations for enterprise AI assistants
Claude's May 2026 enterprise and desktop expansion put MCP tool calls in front of compliance teams and IDEs alike — governance can no longer be an afterthought.
New security risks across the agentic development lifecycle
Snyk found 76 confirmed-malicious skills among 3,984 analyzed and roughly a third of public MCP servers carrying exploitable flaws — legacy AppSec never modeled an agent as the author.
Black Hat Arsenal 2026 Preview: The Agentic AI and Supply-Chain Tools to Watch
Black Hat USA 2026 runs August 1–6 at Mandalay Bay, with Arsenal August 4–6. Here is an honest preview of the open-source tool categories worth your time — and how to tell signal from demo-day hype.
Agent hijacking: the real-world impact of prompt injection
From a zero-click Microsoft 365 Copilot breach to poisoned MCP servers, AI agent hijacking is now a real, documented software supply chain threat.
mcp-scan: detecting malicious MCP tool definitions
MCP lets AI agents call tools via plain-text descriptions the model trusts blindly. Here's how mcp-scan catches poisoning, rug-pulls, and shadowing.
How to Audit the Dependencies of an AI Agent
An AI agent's dependency tree spans packages, MCP servers, models, and system prompts. A step-by-step audit method that actually enumerates all four layers.
Best AI Security Tools in 2026: Guardrails, Red Teaming, and Agentic AI Security Compared
An honest guide to the best AI security tools in 2026 — red-teaming and testing tools, runtime guardrails for prompt injection, agentic AI and MCP security, and the AI supply chain layer (AIBOM) — with a clear best-for line for each.
How Snyk AI-BOM discovers agents, tools, models, and data...
How Snyk AI-BOM's static analysis engine discovers agents, tools, models, datasets, and MCP servers hiding in code, even without a manifest file.
How Snyk AI-BOM detects MCP servers connected to an appli...
A technical look at how Snyk's AI-BOM statically detects MCP client-server connections in source code, what CycloneDX data it captures, and where its coverage stops.
How Snyk AI-BOM's --html flag visualizes AI dependency an...
How Snyk's snyk aibom --html flag turns CycloneDX AI-BOM data into an interactive graph of models, agents, tools, and MCP client-server-tool dependency chains.
Cursor's AI security agents: what they get right and what's missing
Cursor's Bugbot and MCP agents catch real bugs, but CurXecute and MCPoison show they open new attack surfaces SCA tools never had to face.
Claude Code and Claude Desktop security integrations
Claude Code's shell access and MCP's connector boom are reshaping software supply chain risk. Here's what security teams need to know and do.
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