Published August 27, 2026 at 12:01 PM
VentureBeat
Aug 29, 2026, 6:00 AM
When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: When an agent tries to complete an action that it was never authorized to do, what actually stops it? These are your agents, runni…
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