Securing MCP Servers with Synentra
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI applications a standard way to discover context and invoke capabilities. That interoperability is useful—and it sharpens an old security question: what should happen between an agent deciding to use a tool and the tool actually running?
An MCP server can expose tools that read data, change records, trigger workflows, or call downstream services. Authentication can establish which client is connecting. It does not, by itself, decide whether a particular action is appropriate for that identity, purpose, resource, and moment.