Gartner: 1 in 4 GenAI Enterprise Apps Will Face Recurring Security Breaches by 2028 Due to MCP/Agentic Attack Vectors
Gartner doesn’t usually traffic in alarm. When the world’s most influential tech analyst firm publishes a forecast saying a quarter of enterprise GenAI applications will face recurring security breaches by 2028, it’s worth reading carefully. The new prediction: 25% of all enterprise GenAI applications will experience at least five minor security incidents per year by 2028, up from just 9% in 2025. And the culprit the analysts are pointing to most explicitly isn’t prompt injection or model vulnerabilities — it’s MCP, the Model Context Protocol, and the broader architectural patterns of agentic AI. ...