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Security Challenges in MCP Servers (Jan. 24th)

Saturday, January 24th, 2026: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST

This talk examines why securing MCP servers is fundamentally harder than locking down a typical microservice or API gateway: they often run with broad system and data permissions, execute arbitrary tools on behalf of models, and are frequently deployed as unvetted third-party components or 'shadow' services outside normal governance.

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Broward County Main Library

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are rapidly becoming the connective tissue between large language models, internal data, and production infrastructure-and they are also quietly expanding the blast radius of every AI deployment.

Using concrete incident-style scenarios and reference architectures, the session will show how these risks map onto classic security domains-identity, secrets management, network segmentation, observability, and supply-chain integrity...

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