From a clear mark to digital fog
With the classic rest API, the safety is tangible: every call, each authentication and every input/output pair ends in the audit log to determine the procedures. On the other hand, MCP-based agents, only present the final results, why, on whose signal or with which tool chain they have found there are hidden. This blind place between intentions and execution destroys any reliable danger model.
In fact safe agent workflows require real -time connected telemetry, early history, reference injection, tool selection and agent memory. Without this deep insight, we are only pursuing an autonomous decision engine shade. The question is not whether we need to create this visibility, but how soon. Only then the MCP will convert a risk to a controlgic advantage.
The CISOS should be aware of the danger situation, as the current events show how diverse the MCP attack surfaces are: In the “toxic agent flow”, a ready Github issue was sufficient to get an agent to copy the confidential code from private repository, which was completely involved in public through indirectly injections.
