Xage Security expands Critical Asset Protection to cover digital assets

Xage Security expanded Critical Asset Protection to cover modern digital assets, including critical business applications, cloud services, AI systems, and other digital assets. The update addresses a shift in how vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited as organizations add more AI systems, agents, and connected infrastructure.

Xage Security said threat actors have been incorporating AI to discover and exploit known vulnerabilities faster than before, increasing pressure between vulnerability disclosure, patch availability, and deployment. The company also cited Microsoft’s reporting about faster exploitation and a 2026 Verizon DBIR finding that organizations faced 50% more critical vulnerabilities to patch on average than the previous year.

The company framed the approach around preemptive controls that combine access control with identity-based microsegmentation applied to interactions between assets. Xage said these controls can hide resources from unauthorized discovery, broker access so human and non-human identities do not connect directly to protected resources, verify identities, and apply least-privilege policy before and during access.

In the expansion, Xage Critical Asset Protection was extended beyond industrial systems to include workloads, infrastructure, cloud services, AI systems, and other digital assets, with just-in-time connectivity and policy applied as assets and access requirements change. Duncan Greatwood, CEO at Xage Security, said, “Organizations need to assume that any asset could contain an exploitable weakness and prevent attackers from reaching or interacting with it in unauthorized ways,” said Duncan Greatwood, CEO at Xage Security. “The security industry has spent decades trying to eliminate vulnerabilities faster than adversaries can exploit them. AI makes that race increasingly unwinnable. The next era of cybersecurity will be defined by controlling exposure. That means governing every interaction with and between assets, so that a vulnerability does not automatically become a path to compromise.”

Provided by Globe Newswire on behalf of Xage Security. Click to read original content. The original article was written by Decision Insights Editorial.