Quantum meets reality at RSAC 2025. In this Brand Story preview, we speak with SandboxAQ about Active Guard — a SaaS platform designed to be the unifying layer across cryptographic and identity management systems. Marc Manzano joins us to share how they’re solving real problems, enabling automation, and redefining how security teams prepare for the future.
We’re on the road to RSAC 2025 — or maybe on a quantum-powered highway — and this time, Sean and I had the pleasure of chatting with someone who’s not just riding the future wave, but actually building it.
Marc Manzano, General Manager of the Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ, joined us for this Brand Story conversation ahead of the big conference in San Francisco. For those who haven’t heard of SandboxAQ yet, here’s a quick headline: they’re a spin-out from Google, operating at the intersection of AI and quantum technologies. Yes — that intersection.
But let’s keep our feet on the ground for a second, because this story isn’t just about tech that sounds cool. It’s about solving the very real, very painful problems that security teams face every day.
Marc laid out their mission clearly: Active Guard, their flagship platform, is built to simplify and modernize two massive pain points in enterprise security — cryptographic asset management and non-human identity management. Think: rotating certificates without manual effort. Managing secrets and keys across cloud-native infrastructure. Automating compliance reporting for quantum-readiness. No fluff — just value, right out of the box.
And it’s not just about plugging a new tool into your already overloaded stack. What impressed us is how SandboxAQ sees themselves as the unifying layer — enhancing interoperability across existing systems, extracting more intelligence from the tools you already use, and giving teams a unified view through a single pane of glass.
And yes, we also touched on AI SecOps — because as AI becomes a standard part of infrastructure, so must security for it. Active Guard is already poised to give security teams visibility and control over this evolving layer.
Want to see it in action? Booth 6578, North Expo Hall. Swag will be there. Demos will be live. Conversations will be real.
We’ll be there too — recording a deeper Brand Story episode On Location during the event.
Until then, enjoy this preview — and get ready to meet the future of cybersecurity.
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Guest: Marc Manzano, General Manager of the Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ
Hosts:
Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber] | On ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/sean-martin
Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society Podcast & Audio Signals Podcast | On ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli
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This Episode’s Sponsors
SandboxAQ:
https://itspm.ag/sandboxaq-j2en
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Resources
Learn more and catch more stories from RSA Conference 2025 coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2025-rsac-san-francisco-usa-cybersecurity-event-infosec-conference-coverage
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