Your Agent Trusts Things You Never Approved
· Source: blogs.cisco.com
In short
This Cisco blog post explores the growing security risks in the AI agent supply chain, particularly how malicious Agent Skills and MCP servers can execute code with an agent's full permissions. Cisco announces a partnership with OpenAI to bring Daybreak scanners into their AI security portfolio, addressing the gap where executable code disguised as documentation bypasses traditional security checks. The article details Cisco's skill-scanner and mcp-scanner tools designed to inspect AI agent artifacts at marketplace ingestion and pre-installation points.
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Tags: AI security, agentic AI, supply chain, MCP servers, vulnerability, detection