Korthex vs SandboxAQ AQtive Guard

Korthex is a source-first crypto scanner: 18-language static analysis with file:line evidence, NIST KAT emulation proof and a dependency-ordered migration plan, fully on-premise, self-serve. AQtive Guard is SandboxAQ's enterprise cryptography-management platform: runtime, network and filesystem discovery with AI-assisted risk prioritization, enterprise sales-led. Honest, axis-by-axis comparison of two different vantage points.

Korthex reads the source of truth before deployment: static analysis across 18 languages with file:line evidence, weakness proven by emulation against NIST Known-Answer Tests, and a dependency-ordered migration plan, entirely on-premise and self-serve. SandboxAQ's AQtive Guard attacks the same problem, unmanaged cryptography, from the opposite vantage point: it discovers cryptography already running in the estate, network traffic, runtime library calls, filesystems, keys and certificates, at organizational scale.

Axis by axis: KAT emulation proof vs policy-based identification against FIPS/PCI-DSS; a topologically-ordered migration plan with impact simulation vs AI-assisted prioritization; five CBOM export formats with a per-finding post-quantum bucket vs CBOM generation aligned with CNSA 2.0; self-serve CLI with a free tier vs enterprise sales-led engagement (30-day trial on request); on-premise / air-gapped by default vs an integrated enterprise platform; pre-deploy source truth vs running-estate discovery; file:line dataflow evidence vs asset-level owner mapping. The two vantage points are complementary; some organizations run both.