Cognivators LLC
- Entity
- Cognivators LLC
- Founded
- September 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Founder
- Syed Anas Mohiuddin
- Product
- Agent Surface, an AI agent / MCP server security scanner. Its MCP-protocol engine is mcp-safeguard, an open-source Python package (pip install mcp-safeguard).
In the press
Independent coverage, dated.
Ars Technica
Oct 5, 2026 · Dan Goodin, Senior Security Editor
“MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of”
The anchor piece. Quotes him directly, alongside Rapid7's Douglas McKee and X41's Markus Vervier.
ReadUnite.AI
Oct 5, 2026
“Researcher Discloses Same MCP Flaw at Google, JPMorgan, Two Governments”
ReadThe Next Web
Oct 6, 2026 · Ana-Maria Stanciuc
“Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw”
ReadTech Times
Oct 6, 2026 · Clayton Lewis
“Six Weeks After Google and JPMorgan Patched MCP Flaw, US Servers Stay Exposed”
Names him by name, as "Chicago-based researcher and Cognivators founder."
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Published research
Written and dated before the press coverage.
May 24, 2026Zenodo preprint
Protocol Pivoting
IETF Internet-Draft
draft-mohiuddin-mcp-security-considerations-00
May 20, 2026dev.to
The security problem nobody is talking about: MCP servers
May 23, 2026dev.to
ai-fix: when a command fails, one word fixes it
Disclosure record
Five findings, reported, fixed, credited in public.
CVE-2026-14540 (Google), github-mcp-server #3056, Weaviate PR #12961, jpmorgan-payments/ai #19, and the 1Password-MCP advisory. The engine behind all of it, mcp-safeguard, is open source.