MCP Security: Logging And Runtime Security Measures
Red Hat, Friday, April 10th, 2026
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers often execute code or commands as instructed by an AI agent, exposing them to various risks. To help mitigate these risks, you should implement strict runtime security measures to contain what the server can do and to sanitize what it processes.
As discussed in our previous blog post, MCP security: Implementing robust authentication and authorization, an important aspect of MCP security is the ability to monitor autonomous agent behaviour and identify potential threats in real-time. By maintaining a detailed audit trail of tool invocations, authentication events, and errors, organizations can investigate security incidents more effectively, enforce compliance with the principle of least privilege, and mitigate risks like prompt injection or unauthorized code execution.