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MCP Is Just Another API, and That's the Bad News | KuppingerCole Analysts
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Why it matters
MCP is rapidly becoming the connective tissue for AI agents, and exposed unauthenticated servers plus injectable tool definitions give attackers a direct path to abuse agentic systems.
A KuppingerCole analyst episode argues that MCP (Model Context Protocol) is fundamentally just another API and inherits API security problems, noting MCP servers exposed on the internet without authentication and malicious tool definitions being injected into trusted projects. The discussion frames these as governance and security gaps that agentic AI deployments must address.