The Agent Authentication Crisis - How MCP's 97 Million Installs Are Setting Up A 2026 Identity Breach Wave Nobody Is Ready For
The Model Context Protocol reached 97 million installs with an authentication story that was built for individual developer convenience and is now load-bearing for enterprise agent deployments handling sensitive operations. The identity model has not caught up to the deployment scale, and the first major MCP-related enterprise breach is a matter of when, not if.