MCP Server Discovery and Registry Design for Large Organizations
Enterprises need separate discovery and authorization layers to govern MCP server access safely.
Contributing Editor, Attack Surfaces & Adversarial AI
Declan is a former red-team consultant whose work on adversarial prompt manipulation was cited in two industry security advisories before he turned to full-time writing in 2022. He leads Agentic Review's coverage of offensive and defensive research at the boundary of language models and autonomous pipelines.
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