Four unrelated vendors made the agent a first-class principal in the data layer on the same day.

On September 22, BigID launched AgentIQ, running a data security and compliance program from a prompt inside Claude, Copilot, GPT or Gemini through BigID's MCP server. Cohesity introduced Agent Resilience, which discovers, protects and recovers the infrastructure behind enterprise agents, starting with Amazon Bedrock. Semarchy shipped Intelligent Data Products where every data product automatically emits its own MCP server carrying quality rules and access rights. SereneDB released a database enforcing roles and permissions for agents at the data layer. Security, backup, master data management and databases, one 24-hour window, one architectural bet: agents need identity, permissions and recovery as their own class, not borrowed service accounts. (MarTech Series, PR Newswire, Business Wire)