Month: March 2025

OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and GenAI Cheatsheet

March 29, 2025 by Priyanka Vergadia

The OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Models represents the most critical security risks facing AI applications in 2025. As LLMs become increasingly embedded in applications across industries, understanding and mitigating these risks is crucial for developers and security professionals. In this article let’s go over an AI application architecture covering each of the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and understand the prevention methods for each.

What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

March 15, 2025 by Priyanka Vergadia

To understand Model Context Protocol (MCP), let's start with a familiar concept: APIs in web applications.Before APIs became standardized, web developers faced a significant challenge. Each time they needed to connect their application to an external service—whether a payment processor, social media platform, or weather service—they had to write custom code for that specific integration. This created a fragmented ecosystem where:Developers spent excessive time building and maintaining custom connectorsEach connection had its own implementation details and quirksAdding new services required significant development effortMaintaining compatibility as services evolved was labor-intensiveAPIs (Application Programming Interfaces) solved this problem by establishing standardized ways for web applications to communicate with external services. With standardized APIs:Developers could follow consistent patterns to integrate servicesDocumentation became more standardized and accessibleUpdates to services were easier to accommodateNew integrations became significantly faster to implementMCP addresses the exact same problem, but for AI applications.Just as APIs standardized how web applications connect to backend services, MCP standardizes how AI applications connect to external tools and data sources. Without MCP, AI developers face the same fragmentation problem that web developers faced before standardized APIs—they must create custom connections for each external system their AI needs to access.What is MCP?Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol developed by Anthropic that enables seamless integration between AI applications/agents and various tools and data sources. Think of it as a universal translator that allows AI systems to communicate with different external tools without needing custom code for each connection.

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