Principle of Least Privilege

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A security principle that grants each system only the minimum access needed to perform its task.

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Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by framework updates, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.

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5The New Stack·7/14/2026framework_update
The MCP Debate Centers on Context and Governance
The article argues that Model Context Protocol (MCP) can feel like unnecessary overhead for small, single-user projects, where direct API calls are often simpler. For enterprise agentic systems, however, MCP is presented as a better fit because it can carry authorization and audit context at the tool-call level and support structural least privilege, though provisioning remains too manual for broad adoption.