Analysis
AI Agent and MCP Security - OWASP DevSecOps Guideline
Publication date unknown · Discovered owasp.github.io
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Publication date unknown · First observed: 15 Oct 2026
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Why it matters
OWASP's guidance gives defenders a structured control framework for hardening AI coding agents and MCP integrations against prompt injection, credential theft, and tool misuse that operate with the developer's own privileges.
OWASP's DevSecOps Guideline page on AI Agent and MCP Security provides defensive guidance for securing coding agents and Model Context Protocol servers in engineering workflows, built around a 'least agency' principle. It covers the threat model (agents combining private data access, exposure to untrusted content, and external action), agent identity and scoped short-lived credentials, and least-privilege tool permissions, mapping controls to the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (2026) categories such as Agent Goal Hijack, Tool Misuse, and Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities.