The Super-Productivity Paradox of AI

When an MCP Server Is Breached, a Company's Digital Brain Is at Risk

Published on November 28, 2025, in DailySecu, a leading Korean online cybersecurity news outlet (Originally published in Korean https://www.dailysecu.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=202850)

Beyond Traditional Productivity

In recent years, generative AI in corporate environments has advanced far beyond being "a tool that writes well." Agentic AI can read emails, organize meeting minutes, draft reports, adjust schedules, process approval requests, and interact with connected systems. It is spreading rapidly across enterprises. With only a few lines of instruction, dozens of tasks can run in parallel, completing work in minutes that would otherwise occupy someone for an entire day.

In discussions with cybersecurity officials, global enterprises, defense contractors, and government agencies, I have observed AI adoption accelerating at a pace reminiscent of the mobile revolution. At first glance, this appears to herald an era of extraordinary productivity that could reshape how organizations operate. Yet these efficiency gains are also changing enterprise IT architectures, sometimes accumulating security debt faster than organizations can address it. Architectural shortcuts and…