Founder & AI Security Researcher at Cognivators
Syed Anas Mohiuddin is an AI security researcher and the creator of mcp-safeguard, the first automated security scanner for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — the infrastructure connecting AI assistants like Claude and GitHub Copilot to external tools, databases, and APIs. He discovered and responsibly disclosed Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities in official AI agent servers from Anthropic and Microsoft (CVSS 7.5 HIGH), and authored "Protocol Pivoting," a framework describing a new class of cross-protocol lateral-movement attacks in multi-agent AI systems. He is an IETF Internet-Draft author on MCP security and has published peer-reviewed research on AI model evaluation and uncertainty. He is available to comment on AI security, AI agent safety, LLM and prompt-inject...