MCP Server Security — Risks of AI Connected to Your Systems
Model Context Protocol security risks, permission scoping, audit logging, and safe tool exposure
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is transforming how AI tools interact with external systems. Instead of copying data into prompts manually, MCP lets AI models directly read files, query databases, call APIs, and execute actions through standardized tool interfaces.
This is incredibly powerful. It's also incredibly dangerous if you don't think carefully about what you're exposing.
When you run an MCP server, you're giving an AI model — and by extension, anyone who can influence that model's behavior — a direct connection to your systems. Every tool you expose through MCP is a capability that could be invoked through prompt injection, confused deputy attacks, or plain old misconfiguration.
This lesson covers how to expose MCP tools safely, scope permissions appropriately, and build the
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