MCP Servers and Their Increasing Usage in Cybersecurity #100

Today's episiode introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard designed to enable Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), to seamlessly interact with third-party tools and data sources. It explains MCP's architecture, including hosts, clients, servers, and external tools, and highlights its benefits such as eliminating knowledge cut-offs, reducing hallucinations, and enhancing AI's capability to perform real-world actions. The discussion also touches upon the growing adoption of MCP servers by cybersecurity vendors to facilitate natural language interaction with security platforms, while acknowledging the potential security implications of this new architectural layer.