MCP Security Has Gone Mainstream

By Shannon Williams, President & Co-founder of Obot AI

A few days ago our outside counsel forwarded me a risk explainer on MCP from a major law firm's technology transactions group. It was the third in a series they've been running on MCP — laying out a NIST-based control framework for deploying MCP connectors in regulated enterprises.

That's not a developer audience. That's general counsel, CISOs, and procurement teams.

A year ago, MCP was something you explained to enterprise architects from scratch. Now the questions have shifted from "what is this" to "we already have this in production, our auditors are asking, what's the control framework."

MCP security has gone mainstream — and in this post I break down what that shift actually means and the four operational controls every organization deploying MCP needs to have in place.

Originally published on obot.ai