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Shadow MCP Servers Are the Unseen Risk in SaaS AI Stacks

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TL;DR Shadow MCP servers run outside an organisation's security governance, and OWASP now lists them in its MCP Top 10. They're a governance problem, separate from insecure configuration. Nobody can secure a server they don't know exists. They appear when the approved route is slower than the worka…

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  1. 2026-10-30 09:30 · DEV Community — AI
    Shadow MCP Servers Are the Unseen Risk in SaaS AI Stacks

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