Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan

We are now closer than ever before to living in a world where AI agents are smart enough to run our power grids and manage water supplies. How do we keep them from going rogue? Sarah Guo sits down with Maxim Bar Kogan, founder and CEO of Onyx Securities, to explore the complexities of supervising and securing autonomous agents at the enterprise level. Maxim explains Onyx’s product as an AI control plane, which oversees the permissions and flexible contexts of agents while balancing latency, cost, and reliability. He also discusses how current controls have insufficient context to monitor agent intent, tradeoffs for gradual model rollout, the need for vendor-independent oversight, and Israel’s growing AI and security talent ecosystem. Plus, why Maxim is all-in on AGI.

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Chapters:

00:00 – Cold Open

00:45 – Maxim Bar Kogan Introduction

01:10 – AutoGPT and Betting on Agent Actions

05:17 – What Onyx Product Does

07:47 – State of Deployment in Large Enterprises

09:58 – Securing Agents

12:45 – Why Proxies Don’t Work

14:11 – Why Onyx Trains Its Own Models

18:38 – Onyx’s Talent Culture

21:24 – Mechanistic Interpretability

23:35 – How Onyx Builds Customer Trust

25:10 – Mitigating Risk at the Foundational Level

27:45 – Phased Rollout of Glasswing and Daybreak

29:11 – Large Enterprise Holdouts

30:46 – Onyx and the Larger AI Security Space

32:36 – Should Labs Address Model Trust and Governance? 

36:56 – What Needs to Happen in Security

39:14 – Why Maxim is AGI-Pilled

41:15 – Conclusion