No PriorsBuilding an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- May 28, 2026
- Duration
- 41m
- Channel
- No Priors
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @maximbarkogan 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
SPEAKERS
Maxim Bar Kogan
guestCo-founder and CEO of Onyx Security, working on enterprise AI/agent security.
Sarah Guo
hostCo-host of the No Priors podcast, interviewing AI and startup leaders.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of No Priors, featuring Maxim Bar Kogan and Sarah Guo, Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan explores onyx builds AI oversight for enterprise agents amid accelerating risks Onyx’s core product vision is “agents that watch agents,” providing an AI control plane that monitors and intervenes on risky or illegitimate agent actions as enterprise agent activity scales exponentially.
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