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AuthMind vs Onyx Security

AuthMind sells an identity observability platform built for the age of agentic AI, securing what AI agents, NHIs and humans actually do, not just what policies intend. Onyx Security sells a secure control plane for AI agents and models. CISO Tribune files both under Non-human identity security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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AuthMind vs Onyx Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AuthMindAuthMind sells an identity observability platform built for the age of agentic AI, securing what AI agents, NHIs and humans actually do, not just what policies intend.authmind.comOnyx SecurityOnyx Security sells a secure control plane for AI agents and models.onyx.security
What it sells
  • Agentic AI Identity Runtime Protection[3]Discovers and protects AI agent identities across cloud, SaaS and on-prem environments, flagging unknown or rogue agents.
  • NHI and Workload Identity Protection[3]Observes and protects non-human identities, workloads and related secrets from misuse or compromise.
  • Advanced AI Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)Detects AI-driven identity attacks across Active Directory, identity providers and secret managers.
  • Agentic AI Identity Observability and Access Governance[3]Provides unified visibility into AI agent, NHI and human identity activity across infrastructure.
  • AI Security[1][7]Onyx provides the runtime and posture layer of the Onyx Secure AI Control Plane.
  • MCP Gateway[8]The MCP Gateway governs the agent-to-tool surface.
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Headquarters
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Recent news
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  • July 29, 2026Onyx Security announced a $113 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.[15]
  • March 12, 2026Onyx Security officially launched operations after securing $40 million in initial funding.[14]
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Who it fits
AuthMind addresses organizations deploying agentic AI whose agents access systems, APIs, and data, and security teams that need visibility into that access. AuthMind covers identity activity across cloud, SaaS and on-premise environments. AuthMind delivers identity context to the SOC and connects to identity providers, SIEM platforms, cloud infrastructure, network security tools, and ITSM solutions.From its own pages, Onyx Security sells mainly to security, governance, and AI teams that need control over AI agent adoption across the enterprise. Onyx Security describes a single platform for security, governance, and infrastructure teams. Onyx Security offers cloud, hybrid, or self-hosted options for organisations with sensitive data residency requirements. Onyx Security presents one console for AI agents and models across SaaS, cloud, endpoint, and code environments. Onyx Security names security, finance, and platform teams as the teams that share its usage, cost, and policy ledger.
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November 13, 2026October 19, 2026

Where they overlap

  • AuthMind and Onyx Security are both filed under Non-human identity security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • AuthMind's primary category is Non-human identity security; Onyx Security's is AI model and agent security.
  • AuthMind is also filed under Identity threat detection and response. Onyx Security is also filed under AI governance and Workforce AI usage security.
  • AuthMind lists Agentic AI Identity Runtime Protection, NHI and Workload Identity Protection, Advanced AI Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) and Agentic AI Identity Observability and Access Governance. Onyx Security lists AI Security and MCP Gateway.
  • AuthMind was founded in 2020.

What it sells: Onyx Security

What AI Security does[1][7]
Onyx provides the runtime and posture layer of the Onyx Secure AI Control Plane. Onyx inspects every prompt, tool call, and model response inline across browser AI, coding assistants, desktop AI agents, cloud workloads, and MCP servers. Onyx offers five enforcement actions: alert, block, mask, steer, or ask.
What MCP Gateway does[8]
The MCP Gateway governs the agent-to-tool surface. Every tool call an agent makes to an MCP server gets inspected and policy-enforced. MCP Gateway coverage spans the MCP ecosystem, including servers using dynamic client registration and popular servers like GitHub.

Questions about AuthMind and Onyx Security

What do AuthMind and Onyx Security sell?
AuthMind sells Agentic AI Identity Runtime Protection, NHI and Workload Identity Protection, Advanced AI Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) and Agentic AI Identity Observability and Access Governance. Onyx Security sells AI Security and MCP Gateway.
Are AuthMind and Onyx Security in the same category?
They share Non-human identity security. AuthMind's primary category is Non-human identity security and Onyx Security's is AI model and agent security.
When were AuthMind and Onyx Security founded?
AuthMind was founded in 2020.
Who are AuthMind and Onyx Security sold to?
AuthMind addresses organizations deploying agentic AI whose agents access systems, APIs, and data, and security teams that need visibility into that access. From its own pages, Onyx Security sells mainly to security, governance, and AI teams that need control over AI agent adoption across the enterprise.
What have AuthMind and Onyx Security announced recently?
July 29, 2026: Onyx Security announced a $113 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

About AuthMind

AuthMind sells an identity observability platform built for the age of agentic AI, securing what AI agents, NHIs and humans actually do, not just what policies intend. AuthMind is an identity observability and protection company built for agentic AI. AuthMind observes and protects every AI agent, NHI and human identity at runtime. AuthMind secures agentic AI, non-human, and human identities by observing what identities actually do across every environment.[1][5][6][7]

AuthMind observes actual access paths on the wire, including cloud traffic, network flows, and workload activity. AuthMind integrates with IdPs, PAM, vaults, and secret managers to enrich activity with identity attributes, roles, groups, policies, and secrets. AuthMind stitches collected and correlated activity into a real-time Identity Activity Access Graph, a dynamic map of how AI Agents, NHIs, users, and other identities actually access applications, services, data, and infrastructure. AuthMind continuously correlates access path activity of AI agent, NHI and human identity across cloud, SaaS and on-premise environments. AuthMind automatically compares expected access (IAM/IGA, PAM, and policy intent) with actual access (observed behavior) and applies a set of native AI models.[4][5][7][8]

AuthMind secures AI agents, GenAI integrations, and autonomous identities operating across cloud, SaaS, workloads, and APIs. AuthMind continuously discovers all agentic AI identities across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments, including shadow and unmanaged agents, and maps every agent back to its human owner. AuthMind maps how AI agents authenticate, what roles they assume, which secrets they access, and what systems they touch. AuthMind identifies rogue agents, abnormal access patterns, privilege misuse, and unexpected activity. AuthMind maps every AI agent's actual access behavior against its intended boundaries, detecting unauthorized access, shadow activity, and policy violations in real time.[5][9]

AuthMind describes Non-Human Identities (NHIs) as AI agents, service accounts, API keys, tokens and certificates that power modern infrastructure across cloud, SaaS, and workloads. AuthMind correlates NHIs and AI agents to their human owners, workloads, vault authentication, and execution paths. AuthMind identifies unexpected authentication patterns, overly permissive roles, vault bypass attempts, and misuse hidden within legitimate access paths. AuthMind exposes shadow identities, stale credentials, and secrets persisting beyond workload lifetimes. AuthMind detects brute-force attacks, enumeration attempts, risky behavior, and lateral movement targeting IAM systems, vaults, and secrets managers. AuthMind's patented Identity Access Flow Graph maps the full path from vault authentication through secret retrieval to actual workload usage, in real time, across every environment.[5][10]

AuthMind detects MFA bypass, IdP compromise, token theft, impossible travel and suspicious access patterns across every external attack vector in real time. AuthMind detects AD attacks, privilege abuse, lateral movement such as LOTL, and credential misuse, including threats that bypass PAM and hide inside legitimate access paths. AuthMind applies patented AI and ML models to the full identity access path to detect LOTL activity that blends into legitimate access. AuthMind observes the full access path, detecting MFA bypass attempts, post-authentication anomalies, token theft, and compromised identity activity across every environment. AuthMind surfaces and remediates shadow assets, missing MFA, dormant service accounts, and users circumventing controls automatically. AuthMind automates containment and delivers full identity context across human, NHI, and agentic AI identities to SOC. AuthMind has a remediation framework that enables actionable response and remediation across IDPs, endpoints, network, SASE, PAM, and security tools.[5][8][11]

AuthMind continuously observes identity activity across identity providers, SIEM platforms, cloud infrastructure, network security tools, and ITSM solutions. AuthMind ingests and correlates identity activity logs in Splunk Cloud. AuthMind monitors and protects identity activity across Okta IdP. AuthMind's patented Identity Activity Access Graph maps what identities actually do across the network against what identity systems intend. AuthMind's observability extends to non-human identities, like service accounts, secrets and workloads, and to human users. AuthMind is SOC 2 Type II compliant and independently audited for the security, availability and confidentiality of its platform.[3][5][6][7][10][12]

AuthMind on the record

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AuthMind full record

  1. [1]authmind.comAuthMind · authmind.com · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Authmind wins 2023 global infosec awardAuthMind · authmind.com · published April 30, 2023 · Tier A
  3. [3]authmind.comAuthMind · authmind.com · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Authmind agentic ai identity protection to detect and stop anomalous agent ai access in real timeAuthMind · authmind.com · published June 11, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]AuthMind | Identity ObservabilityAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]About Us | AuthMindAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Solutions | AuthMindAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Our Platform | AuthMindAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Agentic AI Identity Protection | AuthMindAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]NHI Security & Secrets Protection | AuthMindAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Advanced ITDR | AuthMindAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Identity Security Integrations | Connect AuthMind with Your Security StackAuthMind · undated page, accessed November 13, 2026 · Tier A

Onyx Security full record

  1. [1]onyx.securityOnyx Security · onyx.security · undated page, accessed October 19, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]The Secure AI Control Plane for the Agentic Era | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]About Onyx | The Team Behind the AI Control PlaneOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]One Platform to Discover and Control Every AI Agent | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]AI Observability – Discover Every Agent & Session | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Agent Security | Block Prompt Injection in Real TimeOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]AI Governance Platform Built for the EU AI Act | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]AI Orchestration – Governed Routing & Control | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI ROI Platform – Prove Value & Control Costs | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Secure Claude Enterprise with Onyx | Anthropic IntegrationOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Secure ChatGPT Enterprise with Onyx | OpenAI IntegrationOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Secure Amazon Bedrock Agents | Onyx IntegrationOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Copilot Studio Security – Discover, Govern & Control | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Israeli cyber firm Onyx Security launches operations with $40 million funding round | ReutersReuters · published March 12, 2026 · Tier B
  15. [15]Onyx Security Raises $113M Series B to Control Advanced AI, Quadrupling Revenue since Stealth Launch Four Months AgoBusiness Wire · published July 29, 2026 · Tier A

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