Technical Guide
Securing the MCP
A technical guide to the security of Model Context Protocol deployments.
Length47 pagesForEngineers, Architects & Security Leads
Inside the document
- How MCP works and the trust boundaries it creates
- A classification of the core attacks: tool description poisoning, rug pulls, line jumping, cross-server shadowing
- Real-world incidents and how to reason about blast radius
- Defense in depth, observability, and audit for MCP deployments
- Hands-on practice and the research frontier