Securing AI agents: How AWS and Cisco AI Defense scale MCP and A2A deployments
Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption has accelerated rapidly since its introduction in November 2024. Enterprises now manage dozens to hundreds of MCP servers—tools that extend AI agent capabilities by connecting them to external data sources and APIs. The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol followed in April 2025, enabling autonomous agents to communicate directly without human intervention. More recently, Agent Skills emerged across enterprise infrastructure. This growth has created three security gaps: teams lack visibility into which tools and agents are […]