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CBAC for MCP Servers

6 min readDiscover why traditional static access control is inadequate for dynamic MCP server environments and how Context-Based Access Control (CBAC) provides superior security by evaluating identity, context, and resource in real-time.

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.
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