Definition
An infrastructure layer that intelligently reduces, enriches, governs, and routes enterprise telemetry in transit for both traditional consumers (SIEM, warehouses) and AI agents/copilots — as opposed to one-way pipelines that only move bulk data.
Key Points
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2026-08-04: ethyca astralis launches runtime purpose-based-access-control for AI agents — commercial data control plane vs asago OSS policy→IaC (2026-08-04-ethyca-astralis-official)
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2026-07-29/30: onyx-security $113M Series B expands Secure AI Control Plane / guardian-agent category (2026-07-31-onyx-security-113m-ai-agent-control, agent-control-plane)
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Category claim advanced by databahn (July 2026 Series B)
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Drivers: AI agents needing contextualized data; rising egress/storage/inference costs
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Adjacent to observability-agents and non-human-identity telemetry security