Public story · 2026-02-24 · source-backed
MCP 10-Category Server Hardening
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Domain: agent-security | Difficulty: intermediate | Source
Systematic defense: code integrity (hash-based verification), OAuth 2.1 auth, TLS transport, process isolation (container per server), Seccomp/AppArmor sandboxing, full tool invocation logging, vault-based secrets, least privilege, input sanitization, configuration auditing via Enkrypt AI scanner.
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