Christofer Hoff, the CTO and CSO at LastPass, took to LinkedIn to appeal to common sense. (OK, if one wanted to appeal to common sense, LinkedIn is probably not the best place to start, but that’s a different story.) “I love the enthusiasm,” Hoff wrote. “I think the opportunity for end-to-end workflow automation with a standardized interface is fantastic vs mucking about hardcoding your own. That said, the security Jiminy Cricket occupying my frontal precortex is screaming in terror. The bad guys are absolutely going to love this. Who needs malware when you have MCP? Like TCP/IP, MCP will likely go down as another accidental success. At a recent talk, Anthropic noted that they were very surprised at the uptake. And just like TCP/IP, it suffers from critical deficiencies that will have stuff band-aided atop for years to come.” Rex Booth, the CISO at identity vendor SailPoint, said the concerns are justified. “If you are connecting your agents to a bunch of highly sensitive data sources, you need to have strong safeguards in place,” he said.