With MCP, There's No Sheriff with Israa Alrawi - Demand generation - Making Sense of Martech

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Demand generation Automation MarTech systems Lifecycle marketing

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"MCP adoption is outpacing security, and we're waiting until something really big gets broken to even address it. We've seen this movie before." - Israa MCP security risks are moving faster than the guardrails meant to contain them. In this episode of Making Sense of Martech, host Jacqueline Freedman sits down with Israa Alwari, founder of The Winbox, an email marketing education and agency helping DTC brands scale without burning their customer relationships down in the process. Israa brings a rare lens to the MCP conversation: eight years in email deliverability, a background in public health and occupational safety, and a habit of asking the question everyone else skips: who actually owns this when it breaks? Together they tear apart the MCP hype cycle. The answer, as it turns out, is you. The brand. The business that plugged it in. This conversation is a necessary gut check before you plug in another connector: what MCPs actually do with your data, why the risk predates the protocol itself, and why the gap between adoption and accountability keeps widening for exactly the reasons you'd expect.