How to Secure AI Agents in Production: What MCP Gets Right (and What It Doesn’t)

It usually starts with something that feels harmless. You give an AI agent access to a few tools. Maybe it can read internal tickets, check a database, and send Slack messages. You wire things up, test a few flows, and everything works. Then someone asks a simple question: “What stops this agent from doing something it shouldn’t?” That’s where things get uncomfortable. The “Lethal Trifecta” (Why This Gets Risky Fast) There’s a concept from recent security research that’s been getting a lot of at