3 min readAcross large enterprises, MCP servers are quietly assuming a role security teams know all too well from previous eras of IT infrastructure development. Like the service account before them, they typically operate as persistent access brokers with broad privileges, shared across workflows, and gradually treated as background plumbing rather than as identities that require ongoing…
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