In this exclusive interview from the 2025 SC Awards, Adrian Sanabria speaks with Marc Manzano, General Manager of Cybersecurity at Sandbox AQ, about the company’s finalist recognition and their breakthrough product, ActiveGuard.
Discover how Sandbox AQ, born from Google, is redefining cybersecurity by tackling non-human identities, AI agents, and the chaos of modern cryptographic management. Learn how ActiveGuard gives enterprises the tools to defend against AI-driven threats and prepare for the quantum era.
Topics Covered: • What is ActiveGuard? • Why non-human identities are a rising risk • The urgent need for AI guardrails • Real-time visibility into crypto assets • Preparing for quantum-resistant cryptography
The future of cybersecurity is here—don’t miss this episode!
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Dr. Marc Manzano leads the cybersecurity group at Sandbox. His current research interests include post-quantum cryptography, lightweight cryptography, fully-homomorphic encryption, the intersection between machine learning and cryptanalysis, performance optimizations of cryptographic implementations on a wide range of architectures, and quantum algorithms. Manzano holds a Ph.D. in Computers Network Security, which he earned under the supervision of the University of Girona (Spain) and Kansas State University (United States). He earned an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Girona (Spain), while he did research stays at UC3M (Spain) and at DTU (Denmark). He initiated his research career while finalizing his BSc in Computer Engineering at Strathclyde University (UK).
Over the past ten years, Manzano has led the development of many secure cryptographic libraries and protocols. Manzano was formerly a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, and before that, he was the Vice President of the Cryptography Research Centre at the Technology Innovation Institute, a UAE-based scientific research center. Prior to that, he held several positions where he was responsible for implementing pivotal cryptographic components of a variety of secure communication products, including an electronic voting platform.
