# MCP Has a Security Problem. The Real Problem Is That Nobody Owns the Identity Chain.

- slug: mcp-has-a-security-problem-the-real-problem-is-that-nobody-owns-the-identity-chain
- date: 2026-04-06
- category: Agentics

38% of MCP servers lack auth, 1,862 are internet-exposed with no identity governance. The incidents that made headlines were symptoms of a structural problem: human identity vanishes at every server boundary — and the ecosystem normalized this before anyone named it.

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