Modern enterprises are experiencing an unprecedented surge in machine-to-machine communications, with billions of AI agents now operating across corporate networks. These digital entities – ranging from legitimate automation tools to potential attack vectors – depend on cryptographic keys, digital certificates, and machine identities that frequently go unmanaged. This oversight creates massive security gaps that malicious actors can exploit, leading to potential data breaches, compliance violations, and operational disruptions.

“There will be more than one billion AI agents with significant autonomous power in the next few years,” stated Jack Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ. “Enterprises are giving AI agents a vastly increased range of capabilities to impact customers and real-world assets. This creates a dangerous attack surface for adversaries. AQtive Guard’s Discover and Protect modules address this urgent issue.”

AQtive Guard addresses these challenges through its integrated Discover and Protect modules. The Discover component maintains continuous, real-time visibility into all NHIs and cryptographic assets including keys, certificates, and algorithms – a fundamental requirement for maintaining regulatory compliance. The Protect module then automates critical security workflows, enforcing essential policies like automated credential rotation and certificate renewal to proactively mitigate risks before they can be exploited.

At the core of AQtive Guard’s capabilities are SandboxAQ’s industry-leading Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), which provide organizations with unmatched visibility and control over their cryptographic infrastructure. This advanced technology enables enterprises to successfully navigate evolving security standards, including the latest NIST requirements, while maintaining robust protection against emerging threats.

Marc Manzano, General Manager of Cybersecurity at SandboxAQ

“As organizations accelerate AI adoption and the use of agents and machine-to-machine communication across all business domains and functions, maintaining a real-time, accurate inventory of NHIs and cryptographic assets is an essential cybersecurity practice. Being able to automatically remediate vulnerabilities and policy violations identified is crucial to decrease time to mitigation and prevent potential breaches within the first day of use of our software,” said Marc Manzano, General Manager of Cybersecurity at SandboxAQ.

SandboxAQ has significantly strengthened AQtive Guard’s capabilities through deep technical integrations with two cybersecurity industry leaders. The platform now features robust integration with CrowdStrike’s Falcon® platform, enabling direct ingestion of endpoint data for real-time vulnerability detection and immediate one-click remediation. This seamless connection allows security teams to identify and neutralize threats with unprecedented speed.

Additionally, AQtive Guard now offers full interoperability with Palo Alto Networks’ security solutions. By analyzing and incorporating firewall log data, the platform delivers enhanced network visibility, improved threat detection, and stronger compliance with enterprise security policies across hybrid environments.

AQtive Guard delivers a comprehensive, AI-powered approach to managing NHIs and cryptographic assets through four key functional areas. The platform’s advanced vulnerability detection system aggregates data from multiple sources including major cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud, maintaining a continuously updated inventory of all cryptographic assets.

The solution’s AI-driven risk analysis engine leverages SandboxAQ’s proprietary Cyber LQMs to accurately prioritize threats while dramatically reducing false positives. This capability is enhanced by an integrated GenAI assistant that helps security teams navigate complex compliance requirements and implement appropriate remediation strategies.

For operational efficiency, AQtive Guard automates the entire lifecycle management of cryptographic assets, including issuance, rotation, and revocation processes. This automation significantly reduces manual errors while eliminating the risks associated with stale or compromised credentials. The platform also provides robust compliance support with pre-configured rulesets for major regulatory standards, customizable query capabilities, and comprehensive reporting features. These tools help organizations accelerate their transition to new NIST standards while maintaining continuous compliance with evolving requirements.

Available now as a fully managed, cloud-native solution, AQtive Guard is designed for rapid deployment and immediate impact. Enterprises can register for priority access to begin early adoption and conduct comprehensive risk assessments of their cryptographic infrastructure.

More than half (52%) of CEOs consider the accelerated pace of technology innovation a top risk for cyberattacks, with 86% rating cyber trust and resilience in emerging technologies like generative AI and quantum computing as highly relevant for their organizations, according to research from Accenture.

The research serves as a reminder that strong cryptography management, requiring the latest algorithms to protect systems, processes and data is a foundational pillar to defending against evolving cyber threats. As part of an ongoing commitment to cryptographic excellence, Accenture is introducing a new Encryption Risk Assessment service, integrated with SandboxAQ’s AQtive Guard. The service provides clients with deep visibility into risks caused by weak cryptography before these risks have a chance to impact critical data across networks, file systems, and cloud applications.

“The prevalence of generative AI, as well as expected new global post-quantum encryption standards, makes data protection critical to safeguarding confidential business information and data used to train AI foundational models or used in AI applications,” said Paolo Dal Cin, global lead of Accenture Security. “The reality is that malicious actors are stealing sensitive data now, to decrypt it later using quantum computers that can break many current encryption methods. Our assessment service enables clients to see potential risks to their data and upgrade encryption to increase protection against ransomware, data theft and manipulation campaigns, and to prepare for future risks from quantum computing. Companies that assess their data encryption level now will be more protected against current attacks and better prepared to mitigate future risks.”

The service can identify risks across important areas including the existence of cryptographic assets such as digital certificates or cryptographic keys, and usage of cryptographic algorithms, both symmetric and public key, as well as any other cryptographic constructions such as hash functions, for a comprehensive view of cryptography use throughout the enterprise. When combined with data security and privacy policies along with governance, risk and compliance guidelines, the assessment delivers prioritized recommendations for remediation action, enabling businesses to act with urgency and agility to protect their overall infrastructure against the most advanced and sophisticated threats, and in their transition to post-quantum technology.

“Our continued collaboration with Accenture will help our largest global 1000 clients defend themselves against advanced AI-driven cybersecurity attacks, protecting their most sensitive data today and tomorrow,” said Jack Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ. “As we help clients discover data that are vulnerable to current and future attacks, there are many benefits from enhancing their cryptography defences. The recent global outage from just one software update highlights the need to increase observability across the enterprise.”