From MCPTotal to Autonomous Security: A name for the AI era

When we launched MCPTotal, we were doing exactly what the name implied: trying to make sense of the MCP explosion—hosting MCP servers, running them securely, cataloging servers, scanning for vulnerabilities, etc. MCPTotal reflected this, we always knew the name was temporary.

However, the way organizations use AI has evolved quickly, and our scope has grown beyond MCP. We are now racking skills, plugins, agents, sub-agents, and all the credentials that enable them. We also realized a critical architectural requirement. Rather than sitting at the network layer, we needed to be at the endpoint: the laptop, the workstation, the machine where the agents run. That's where you can see prompts, intercept tool calls, vault secrets, and enforce policy before something bad happens.

That endpoint focus turned out to matter more than we anticipated. As the AI agent ecosystem boomed—12,900+ MCP servers, 91,000+ skills, a third of companies shipping custom integrations—the governance and enforcement problem became impossible to solve anywhere but the endpoint. Network-level controls can't see what a local agent is doing inside an IDE. They can't inspect the contents of an mcp.json on a developer's desktop. They can't apply a guardrail to a prompt before it launches. The endpoint can. And as Claude Code and Cursor adoption grow, and agents move from developer curiosity to core infrastructure across every function, the stakes become clearer, fast. This new environment wasn't an MCP problem. It was an AI agent security challenge: autonomous systems running everywhere, with deep access, and almost no security tooling designed for them.

So the name had to change. Autonomous Security says what we do and why it matters: we secure the autonomous AI agents already running on your team's machines. The word "autonomous" isn't aspirational; it describes exactly what makes these systems different and dangerous. They act on their own, with your credentials and your data, and no one built traditional endpoint security to see them. We have. The company, the mission, and the team are the same. But the name finally fits the era we're in.

It's important to acknowledge the gap we see in EDR (endpoint detection and response) products today, where off-the-shelf AI agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and so many others are authorized to run in enterprise. However, their intent isn't monitored at all. And today these agents are privileged, connected, and semi-autonomous. This combination is lethal. One wrong move and it's so easy to break in the computer and from there inside the network on production environments as well. The security industry hardly succeeds to deal with compromised open source projects, as well as patching vulnerabilities fast. And now these autonomously-running entities are inside your enterprise becoming a huge risk. We provide the controls to map, contain and remediate the risk.

By the way, why "a16y"?
We wanted to spare you (and ourselves) from typing out a massive domain name. Following a well-known tech convention, long words are often shortened by keeping the first and last letters and replacing the middle ones with the count of omitted letters—just like I18N (internationalization), K8S (Kubernetes), or A16Z (Andreessen Horowitz). So, please give a warm welcome to A16Y! :)