Most inventory tools stop at detection, leaving security teams with more work and little clarity. SandboxAQ announces AQtive Guard Protect: remediation software that secures, observes, and automates the full lifecycle of Non-Human Identities (NHI), including cryptographic assets.
The Growing Threat of NHI Compromise:
Credential theft accounted for 79% of CrowdStrike detections in 2024. Human identities certainly present security challenges; but non-human identities pose greater risk, and are escalating fast with the proliferation of just-in-time workloads, agentic AI, and evolving security best practices.
If it’s not broken, why fix it?
- Let’s Encrypt, a public Certificate Authority, announced they are moving to 6 day cert validities, from 90 days. If you manage these manually, the transition is impossible. If your DevOps team writes ‘automation’ scripts, they will need rewriting from scratch and will last only until the next change.
- Recently 90,000 environment variables were stolen from AWS web servers by a single hacker group, including 1,185 unique AWS access keys, 333 PayPal OAuth tokens, 235 GitHub tokens, 111 HubSpot API keys, 39 Slack webhooks and 27 DigitalOcean tokens.
- The US Government suffered secret compromises from web servers including Storm-0558 which betrayed cross-government email server access, and the Treasury leaked a BeyondTrust API key in early 2025.
- Google distrusted Entrust, a Certificate Authority, leading Public Key Infrastructure teams to deploy frantic migrations to new roots of trust.
- Poor visibility and lack of automation lead to certificate outages and operational disruption at Equifax. This led to a massive data breach, resulting in total damages amounting to over $500m in fines
The current state of cybersecurity is too fragmented and not keeping pace with technology evolution, specially with AI. Regulators know this and are now putting pressure on organizations to demonstrate superior cybersecurity foundations and practices, including secret management hygiene (some examples are NIST, NIS2, DORA, etc.).
With the launch of Protect, AQtive Guard delivers the most compelling end-to-end NHI and cryptography management solution. Protect is seamlessly integrated with your cryptographic inventory, enabling rapid remediation.
Learn how AQtive Guard Protect can save security teams time and bandwidth. Sign up for a free trial today.
