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Securing MCP requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional API security.
True zero trust requires verified identity at every request and eliminating static credentials entirely.
Traditional static access control is inadequate for dynamic MCP server environments. Context-Based Access Control (CBAC) provides superior security by evaluating identity, context, and resource in real-time.
OAuth 2.1 eliminates implicit flow, mandates PKCE, and requires exact redirect matching.
JWT and OAuth work together for robust authorization, especially in machine-to-machine communication.
Agentic AI systems act autonomously to achieve goals, planning multi-step tasks and adapting to changing conditions.
Service accounts outnumber human users but operate with static credentials and minimal oversight.
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.
The organizations succeeding with agentic AI are deploying it with constraints.