Xopero buys Vigil Guard to guard AI systems against prompt injection attacks
What's the deal? Xopero SoftwareDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has acquired Vigil GuardDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a cybersecurity company that builds a platform to monitor, control, and secure interactions with AI systems. The deal value was not disclosed. Xopero, which sells data backup and recovery software — including DevOps protection through GitProtect.ioDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → — said the acquisition is the first combination of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe region.
What's the endgame? Xopero wants to move beyond traditional backup and disaster recovery toward what it calls a unified stack for data protection and AI governance. Vigil Guard operates as an AI Detection and Response (AIDR) platform, offering firewall- and EDR-like features built specifically for AI interactions.
Why now? The rapid rollout of AI tools and autonomous agents across developer environments like JiraDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, ConfluenceDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and code repositories has exposed the limits of conventional security systems. Corporate emails, internal documentation, and source code are routinely fed into prompts sent to external large language models (LLMs), creating new exposure.
What could go wrong? Prompt injection attacks — where malicious instructions hidden in text hijack AI assistants and siphon off intellectual property — are rising, as recent vulnerabilities in tools such as Atlassian RovoDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → show. Vigil Guard aims to counter these by detecting such attacks and masking personal, financial, and credential data before prompts reach external LLMs, with all checks running on-premise or inside the customer's private infrastructure.
"The pace of AI adoption exceeds the implementation of control and security procedures," said Łukasz Jesis, chief executive officer and founder of Xopero Software. "As a result, companies often back up corrupted or infected content without verifying its history and integrity." (translated from German)
The signal: As AI agents gain access to sensitive corporate data, security vendors are racing to build controls purpose-built for how these systems actually work. Xopero's bet is that backup and AI governance belong in a single stack — pairing the ability to store data with the ability to keep it from leaking in the first place.
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