Legacy security tools lack context to monitor autonomous AI agent systems
Maxim Bar Kogan · Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan · May 28, 2026 · at 12:21
Maxim Bar Kogan, CEO of Onyx Security, explains why legacy cybersecurity stacks are insufficient for securing autonomous AI agents.
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“A lot of these existing tools, they don't have the context to understand what these very flexible and predictable systems are doing.”
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