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MCP Security Tooling Reaches Critical Mass.

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Adversa AI's roundup shows Golf Scanner (20 checks across 7 IDEs), Astrix MCP Secret Wrapper (runtime vault integration), and mcp-sec-audit all shipped in April. PipeLab's "State of MCP Security 2026" is the first incident-by-incident mapping against the OWASP MCP Top 10. The mcp-remote library (500K+ downloads) had a CVSS 9.6 RCE. No more excuses. Run Golf Scanner on your MCP setup this week.

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