Enterprise microsegmentation company ColorTokens Inc. today introduced Xshield AI Agent, a new artificial intelligence-driven policy automation engine that eliminates the complexity of microsegmentation deployment.

Xshield AI Agent is designed to accelerate policy design and rollout from days to minutes by allowing organizations to rapidly isolate critical systems and contain lateral movement during an active breach, with significantly less manual effort from security teams.

Modern attackers are using AI to accelerate the vulnerability-to-exploitation-to-weaponization kill chain. In doing so, they’re shrinking the window between discovery and attack execution. ColorTokens argues that traditional security controls struggle to keep pace.

ColorTokens has developed AI-assisted microsegmentation that automates policy discovery and deployment and reduces segmentation cycles that traditionally took days into a process that can be executed almost immediately. In pre-release testing, ColorTokens says, customers have achieved up to a 90% reduction in blast radius and attack surface within 90 days, dramatically improving their breach readiness posture.

Xshield AI Agent continuously refines segmentation policies using live telemetry and built-in guardrails to ensure safe enforcement. Using the engine, security teams can interrogate their environment using plain-language queries and instantly generate policies to block emerging lateral movement techniques.

The engine also monitors for new attack tactics that appear in the MITRE ATT&CK framework or U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency threat advisories to allow organizations to quickly assess their exposure and implement countermeasures within minutes.

Key benefits of Xshield AI Agent include accelerated situational awareness of emergent lateral movement attack techniques and relevance to the enterprise environment, automated policy generation to reduce administrator effort and faster breach response and minimized blast radius.

“Many vendors apply AI to threat detection,” explained co-founder and Chief Executive Rajesh Khazanchi. “We are applying AI to enforcement. Detection without automated enforcement does not create breach readiness. Xshield AI Agent transforms intelligence into immediate segmentation action – helping organizations move from reactive security to true breach readiness.”

ColorTokens’ Xshield platform, which is what the new AI Agent uses, prevents the lateral spread of malware and ransomware by placing a micro-perimeter around every network asset. The platform enables organizations to isolate compromised systems rapidly and reduce blast radius across cloud, data center, operational technology and hybrid environments by combining granular segmentation, real-time visibility and automated enforcement.

Xshield AI Agent will be demonstrated at the annual RSAC conference, which runs March 23-26 in San Francisco.

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