AQtive Guard

What it does

AQtive Guard is a Cryptographic Posture Management (CPM) and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) platform. It gives security teams one control plane to discover, assess, and remediate cryptographic risk ahead of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) deadlines, and to govern the models, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers they run. Where a legacy Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) tool tracks only the certificates it manages, AQtive Guard correlates static analysis with live runtime and network tracing to surface hidden algorithms, shadow keys, unmanaged certificates, and shadow AI.

How it works

The platform deploys sensors across binaries, cloud, code, filesystems, network traffic, and endpoints, feeding one correlation engine that maps every key, certificate, and algorithm to owners, dependencies, and blast radius. It scores business risk, simulates changes before rollout, and orchestrates key rotation, algorithm replacement, and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration behind runtime guardrails that block deprecated ciphers such as MD5 and SHA-1. An AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) module discovers models, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Actions produce Cryptography Bills of Materials (CBOMs) and evidence mapped to NIST PQC standards and Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (CNSA) 2.0.

Credentials and traction

AQtive Guard is covered by a SOC 2 Type I report and SandboxAQ's ISO/IEC 27001 certification, and it is FedRAMP Ready at the Moderate impact level. It won Best Emerging Technology at the 2025 SC Awards and the 2024 TMCnet Zero Trust Security Excellence Award. SoftBank has deployed the platform, Vodafone Business and Mount Sinai are SandboxAQ customers, and in December 2025 the U.S. Department of War's CIO signed a five-year agreement for automated cryptographic discovery across the department.