Xopero buys Vigil Guard to boost AI threat monitoring

Xopero Software has acquired AI security company Vigil Guard, adding AI threat monitoring to its data protection business.

The deal combines Xopero's backup and disaster recovery products with Vigil Guard's platform for monitoring and controlling interactions with artificial intelligence systems. The move comes as companies face growing concern over prompt injection attacks and data leakage through generative AI tools and autonomous agents.

Businesses are rolling out AI features across software development and workplace platforms, including Jira, Confluence and code repositories, but security controls have struggled to keep pace. That has left gaps in areas such as source code protection, privacy controls and oversight of information sent to external large language models.

The purchase expands Xopero beyond backup and disaster recovery into AI governance. The company also owns GitProtect.io, a backup product focused on DevOps environments and source code protection.

Vigil Guard's technology is designed to detect prompt injection attempts and control how AI agents behave inside an organisation's systems. It also masks data such as personally identifiable information, financial records and credentials before prompts are sent to external models, with checks carried out on a customer's own infrastructure.

The companies are targeting regulated industries including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare and public administration, where rules around data handling, audit trails and system resilience are stricter.

Nearly 2,000 organisations in more than 60 countries use Xopero's products, according to the company. Following the transaction, the Vigil Guard team will be integrated into the wider group.

One factor behind the move is the way AI tools are being woven into routine employee workflows. Corporate emails, internal documents and software code can end up in prompts submitted to third-party models, raising the risk that sensitive company material is exposed outside internal controls.

Another concern is prompt injection, in which hidden instructions embedded in text influence an AI assistant's actions. In enterprise settings, that can lead to the disclosure of internal information or actions that fall outside approved boundaries.

Xopero argued that traditional cybersecurity tools do not address these newer risks because they were built for endpoints, networks and stored data rather than live interactions between staff, AI agents and external models.

That distinction is becoming more important as businesses move from using AI chat tools in isolation to embedding AI agents in collaboration, documentation and software development systems. In those settings, a model may have access to a broader range of internal information and take actions across multiple applications.

Market shift

The acquisition reflects a broader shift in cybersecurity spending as vendors adapt existing data and infrastructure protection products to AI-related risks. While backup software remains central to recovery from ransomware and operational failures, buyers are also asking how to prevent sensitive material from being exposed where employees and automated systems interact with AI.

Xopero linked that issue to recovery as well as prevention, arguing that organisations may be backing up compromised or infected data without recognising the problem early enough.

"The pace of AI adoption is outstripping the implementation of control and security procedures. As a result, companies often back up corrupted or infected content without verifying its history and integrity, confusing the mere existence of a backup with the actual ability to recover," said Łukasz Jesis, CEO and Founder of Xopero Software.

He added that the company sees the combined offering as a response to both technical and regulatory pressure.

"Combining Xopero's mature ecosystem with Vigil Guard's innovative technology allows us to offer the market something unique: a complete data protection and AI governance stack. We are proactively staying ahead of the challenges of this new era of cyber threats and growing regulatory pressures, giving organizations the assurance that their data remains completely secure-even when exposed to language models," said Jesis.

For Vigil Guard, the tie-up gives the smaller company access to a larger customer base and distribution network at a time when demand for AI oversight tools is rising.

"The wave of AI adoption in business cannot-and should not-be stopped, but having full control over it is crucial. In founding Vigil Guard, we set out to fill a gap unaddressed by traditional cybersecurity tools: securing real-time language interactions and AI agent actions," said Tomasz Bartel, CEO and Founder of Vigil Guard.

"Joining Xopero and driving the further development of the platform provides our team with an immense scalability boost. We are combining our proprietary AI threat detection engines with Xopero's mature ecosystem to build a solution that no CISO will soon be able to do without when allowing broad AI agent deployment across their organization," said Bartel.