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MCP vs Traditional API Security

6 min readSecuring MCP requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional API security.

Securing MCP requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional API security.
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Service accounts outnumber human users but operate with static credentials and minimal oversight.
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The incident demonstrates how autonomous behavior reshapes intrusion patterns when identity is not clearly assigned or enforced.
These four architectural patterns reveal how AI agents differ fundamentally from traditional workloads.
JIT access replaces the common practice of issuing and locally storing keys with a workflow that evaluates a workload’s rights every time it tries to access sensitive data.

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