How to Secure MCP Servers | A Walkthrough

While the hype continues to build around MCP, or model context protocol, a growing number of engineers and organizations are becoming concerned about the potential security risks that MCP invites.

In this video, I'll give a demo of how Teleport provides secure access to your MCP servers and how the new Teleport Secure MCP integration gives you a robust solution for protecting your LLM endpoints and data sources.

🕒 Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:51 Demo overview

02:04 Enforcing read only

02:25 Using Claude desktop

03:36 Audit events

04:09 Just in time Write access

05:26 Windsurf or Cursor integration

05:53 Summary

Important Links
Read more about Teleport Secure MCP - https://goteleport.com/use-cases/secure-model-context-protocol/
Get MCP early access - https://goteleport.com/mcp-early-access/
Start a 14-day free trial of Teleport - https://goteleport.com/signup/

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