More than 1 Billion AI Agents Spawn a Vast New Cyber Attack Surface: SandboxAQ Launches New Platform to Address the Threat

AQtive Guard addresses the evolving cyber threats posed by the rise of Non-Human Identities used by AI agents by enabling real-time vulnerability detection and mitigation 

Company announces technical integrations with CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto, CA; April 22, 2025 – SandboxAQ, a leader in AI and cybersecurity solutions, today announced the general availability of AQtive Guard, a groundbreaking platform designed to manage and secure Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and other cryptographic assets used by AI agents – both friendly and malevolent – that are surging across enterprise environments. 

As billions of AI agents flood enterprise ecosystems, organizations are facing an unprecedented surge of intelligent, adaptive cyber threats capable of continuously probing networks, evading detection, and rapidly exploiting vulnerabilities. This escalating threat demands proactive, AI-driven cryptographic defenses to counteract attacks that evolve faster than traditional security measures can respond.

AQtive Guard’s Discover module enables organizations to maintain an accurate inventory and control over both NHIs and cryptographic assets such as keys, certificates, algorithms, and libraries, and is crucial for compliance and meeting regulatory mandates. AQtive Guard’s Protect orchestrates automated remediation workflows and enforces protection policies such as credential rotation or certificate renewal. 

Leveraging its industry-leading Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), AQtive Guard’s Discover and Protect modules provide organizations with unprecedented visibility, control and remediation, addressing the escalating challenges of machine-to-machine communication security, compliance pressures, and the transition to the new NIST security standards. 

As part of the launch, SandboxAQ also announced two key capabilities:

• Robust integration with the CrowdStrike Falcon^® cybersecurity platform, representing SandboxAQ’s deepest technical integration to date. AQtive Guard empowers joint customers with full visibility into their non-human identity and cryptographic inventories and vulnerabilities by pulling data directly from CrowdStrike endpoints. One-click ingestion translates to value from the first hour of use. AQtive Guard can then remediate the vulnerabilities as they are identified.   
• Interoperability with Palo Alto Networks, a trusted name in enterprise security solutions. SandboxAQ is ingesting Palo Alto Networks’ firewall logs directly into AQtive Guard, resulting in key visibility improvements for network security posture, vulnerability detection, and security compliance. 

“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.” 

“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. 

AQtive Guard addresses these challenges by providing a unified, AI-driven solution for modern NHI and cryptography management. The platform offers:

• Vulnerability Detection and Inventory: Builds a complete and continuously updated inventory by integrating data from multiple sources, including existing data and meta-information captured from existing cybersecurity platforms and configuration management database tools. AQtive Guard works across the leading cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud (GCP). This unified global inventory forms the crucial foundation for LQM analysis.
• AI-powered Insights, Prioritization and Risk Analysis: Applies SandboxAQ's industry-leading Cyber LQM to the unified inventory. By leveraging meta-data for advanced filtering and clustering, the platform enables efficient, noiseless exploration and accurate root-cause analysis, and delivers prioritized, actionable insights with contextual guidance for remediation and risk reduction, effectively reducing false positives. An integrated GenAI assistant further supports teams in understanding how to navigate relevant standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Automated Remediation and Lifecycle Management: Streamlines and automates the entire lifecycle of identities and cryptographic keys – including issuance, rotation, and revocation – reducing manual overhead and minimizing the risk associated with stale or compromised secrets.
• Compliance and NIST Standards: Provides targeted remediation recommendations, a powerful query engine with pre-built rulesets for major compliance standards (and custom query capabilities), and robust reporting to demonstrate compliance and significantly accelerate migration to new NIST standards.

Priority Access Starts Today: AQtive Guard launches today as a fully managed, cloud-delivered platform built for rapid deployment and immediate impact in securing cryptographic assets and nonhuman identities. Organizations can secure priority access today for early deployment and risk assessments. Take control at aqtiveguard.com or contact sales@sandboxaq.com.

About SandboxAQ: SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering solutions at the intersection of AI and quantum techniques. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in AI-driven cybersecurity, life sciences, financial services, navigation, and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth-backed company funded by leading investors and strategic partners including funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Alger, Horizon Kinetics, IQT, US Innovative Technology Fund, S32, Paladin Capital, BNP Paribas, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Ray Dalio, Marc Benioff, Yann LeCun, and others. For more information, visit http://www.sandboxaq.com.

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