1,800+ MCP servers exposed without authentication: How zero trust can secure the AI agent revolution

We find ourselves teetering upon a precipice of our own unwitting construction, and the vertiginous depth of our collective negligence ought to give every security practitioner profound pause. In our headlong rush to deploy AI agents across enterprise environments, we have erected an infrastructure so thoroughly unfortified that it beggars belief. The Model Context Protocol, which Anthropic unveiled in November 2024 as the connective tissue binding large language models to external tools, has pr