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20 Aug 2026

18:00 BST

Online

Webinar, with an on-demand replay

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock

Co-Founder & CEO, SurrealDB

Access control for multi-agent systems

Your agent knows too much. In most multi-agent systems every agent reads from the same shared memory, so a support agent, a finance agent, and a partner's agent all see the same customer record - sentiment, contracts, PII, EU and US data alike - and 2026's fixes mostly stop at the identity provider or a policy gateway, handing each agent a scoped token and hoping something downstream honours it.

This webinar makes the case that access control belongs one layer deeper - on the data itself, as a permission the database checks on every single read - and shows it live: one shared memory, one unchanged recall query, four different agents, four correctly-scoped results, where the finance agent never sees support sentiment, the EU-resident agent can't read US rows, and only an explicit admin grant unmasks PII. You'll leave knowing why record-level scope defuses the lethal trifecta in a way a gateway can't, and why the same mechanism delivers EU data residency for free ahead of the August 2026 AI Act deadline.

In this session you'll learn

  1. Why access control belongs on the data layer - a permission checked on every read - not just at the identity provider or a policy gateway.
  2. How record-level scope defuses the "lethal trifecta" in a way a scoped token or gateway can't.
  3. Why the same mechanism delivers EU data residency for free, ahead of the August 2026 AI Act deadline.

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SurrealDB gives us a foundation where we can unify semantic search, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven decision making without stitching together multiple systems. Collapsing responsibility into SurrealDB has become our default engineering posture.
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VP of Engineering, Later

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