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OAuth's Role in MCP Security


Limits and Opportunities in the Identity Layer

Let's assume MCP achieves Anthropic's goal as a USB layer for LLMs and agents and becomes the de facto standard to plug in various APIs. What is different now is that in early days of new developments of say eCommerce or Mobile Payments or Web services, these were wholly new areas so the risks were real but some what limited to the new stacks that companies deployed. In the case of MCP, the models consume enormous amounts of extant assets, meaning there is an inside out attack surface that is a new problem for Infosec teams to solve.

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