As AI agents proliferate across enterprise networks, posing a new wave of intelligent and adaptive cyber threats, SandboxAQ has launched a platform designed to meet the moment. The cybersecurity and quantum tech firm today unveiled AQtive Guard, a new solution built to secure the rapidly expanding ecosystem of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and the cryptographic assets they depend on.
With projections estimating more than one billion AI agents in operation within the next few years, security teams are facing an unprecedentedly large attack surface. These agents, capable of machine-to-machine communication and autonomous decision-making, are creating an environment where vulnerabilities can be identified and exploited in real time, outpacing traditional security methods.
“There will be more than one billion AI agents with significant autonomous power in the next few years,” said 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.”
Active Guard consists of two main components: Discover, which inventories and monitors NHIs and cryptographic assets like keys, certificates, algorithms, and libraries; and Protect, which automates remediation and policy enforcement, including credential rotation and certificate renewal. The platform is powered by SandboxAQ’s proprietary Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), enabling deep visibility and contextual risk prioritisation.
To support seamless integration into existing enterprise environments, SandboxAQ announced robust partnerships with CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks. AQtive Guard is now fully integrated with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, allowing organisations to automatically ingest endpoint data, identify vulnerabilities, and launch remediation workflows. It also now supports ingestion of Palo Alto Networks firewall logs, offering improved visibility into network posture and compliance status.
“As organisations 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,” said Marc Manzano, General Manager of Cybersecurity at SandboxAQ. “Being able to remediate vulnerabilities and policy violations identified automatically is crucial to decrease time to mitigation and prevent potential breaches within the first day of use of our software.”
AQtive Guard also supports cloud-native environments across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud (GCP) and features a GenAI assistant to help users navigate regulatory frameworks and security standards, including those issued by NIST. The platform’s compliance engine includes pre-built rulesets, custom queries, and automated reporting, enabling faster, standards-aligned remediation and reducing manual overhead.
With AI’s role in enterprise operations growing more sophisticated by the day, SandboxAQ is positioning AQtive Guard as the go-to solution for organisations looking to regain control over a complex digital identity landscape before adversaries take full advantage of it.
