model-context-protocol
Safeguard articles tagged "model-context-protocol" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Explaining Model Context Protocol and its expanding attac...
MCP security is now urgent: MCP servers grew from 700 to 16,000+ in a year, and most are unaudited. Here is the threat model and how Safeguard secures it.
Analysis of known MCP server CVEs and disclosed vulnerabi...
Two critical CVEs — in mcp-remote and Anthropic's MCP Inspector — reveal how MCP server vulnerabilities let untrusted servers execute code on client machines.
Risks of MCP server rug-pulls and silently changing tool ...
An MCP rug pull attack swaps a trusted server's tool definitions after approval. Here's how tool definition drift happens, and how Safeguard catches it early.
Glossary of Model Context Protocol security terminology
A precise MCP security glossary covering clients, servers, resources vs. tools, tool poisoning, rug pulls, and the confused deputy problem — with real-world examples.
MCP Spec 2025-11-25: Tasks, URL Mode Elicitation, and What Defenders Must Watch
The November 25, 2025 Model Context Protocol release adds Tasks, formalises long-running work, and reshapes the audit story for enterprise MCP.
Death by a Thousand Tools: Governing an MCP Server at Scale
A 900-tool MCP server is powerful and terrifying in equal measure. The answer isn't fewer tools — it's per-tenant governance, where each capability is off until an admin turns it on.
The Onboarding Tax: Why Signup Forms Break Agent Workflows
Every signup form, verification email, and OAuth redirect is a wall an AI agent can't climb. Zero-touch onboarding lets an agent create the account and sign in itself — no browser, no human relay.
Model Context Protocol in 2026: News, Adoption, and Security Landscape
The latest Model Context Protocol news: foundation governance, near-universal vendor adoption, a maturing spec, and a security track record that already includes critical CVEs.
Agentic Commerce: Why Your SaaS Has to Let AI Agents Buy
AI agents already research, compare, and recommend software — but the moment they hit a paywall, they stall and hand the job back to a human. Here's why that gap is expensive, and how agent-native purchasing closes it.
MCP Protocol News: The 2026 Spec Update and Its Security Fallout
The biggest MCP protocol news of 2026 is a major specification overhaul that fixes old flaws and shifts a load of new security responsibility onto developers.
What Is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? And What It Means for Security
MCP is the USB-C of AI integrations — one open standard for connecting models to tools and data. It also standardizes a fresh attack surface, so understanding both halves matters.
Agents Can Now Procure Safeguard Through MCP
AI agents can browse regional pricing, compare tiers, start a Stripe checkout, and verify activation — the entire Safeguard procurement journey now runs through the MCP server.
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