An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
SandboxAQ offers a cryptography management system for discovering where and how encrypted data occurs and improving its security posture, wherever it is implemented across an extended enterprise application and data estate.
When I first saw SandboxAQ in my inbox, I immediately thought it was a test-bed solution for automated quality professionals, but as it turns out, the “AQ” in their name refers to avoiding the emerging risks of combining artificial intelligence (A) and quantum computing (Q) to solve encryption schemes. Still, in a sense, cryptographic assets do not have an unlimited shelf life and therefore quality really matters: they need continuous monitoring, debugging, and policy-based management.
There will always be an arms race in cryptography, as ever-more-sophisticated encryption schemes risk getting decrypted or compromised by ever-more-sophisticated cyberattacks, powered by quantum computing algorithms and adaptive AI-driven routines.
By giving cryptography discovery and management its own observability layer, a SecOps team can centrally set policies for zero-trust security, data privacy, and compliance, while serving up dashboards for cryptographic health and remediation efforts.
So for instance if there is an obsolete RSA algorithm used to encrypt a healthcare database, that vulnerability can be discovered and modernized by the team, hopefully before an attacker notices the handhold was available. Similarly, older encryption schemes can cause an IT team to schedule certain areas of the cryptographic estate for modernization with more modern, leaner approaches.
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