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Xage Security, vendor of Zero Trust access and protection, announced the integration of its Xage Fabric Platform with the NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU), delivering advanced security controls for AI factories and critical infrastructure. 

Leveraging the advanced hardware acceleration of BlueField-3, Xage scales identity-based access controls across massive data centers and mission-critical environments, ensuring exceptional performance and resilience. With Xage’s Zero Trust enforcement for humans, systems, AI models and agents, organizations gain a complete, closed-loop security architecture. 

“Given the massive innovation opportunities of AI, we need to make sure that organizations’ deployments are not held back by cybersecurity gaps—and we need to have the necessary protections run at extraordinary speed and scale,” said Roman Arutyunov, co-founder and senior vice president of product at Xage Security. “That’s why we’re collaborating with NVIDIA to help deliver lightning-fast and jailbreak-proof security at the heart of the modern AI factory and AI-enabled critical infrastructure.”

“As AI factories emerge as the foundational infrastructure accelerating AI innovation, safeguarding them has become a critical priority,” said Ofir Arkin, senoir distinguished architect for cybersecurity at NVIDIA. “Together, NVIDIA BlueField and Xage’s zero-trust security enable organizations to modernize their protection strategies across AI factories and infrastructure —driving secure, scalable innovation forward.”

Agentic AI systems rely on autonomous agents that collaborate with other agents, models, and APIs to make decisions and take action. Xage’s dynamic access control integration of NVIDIA BlueField provides a software-defined, hardware-accelerated foundation to govern and enforce data flows between agents and models in real time.

Xage applies least-privilege controls at every step of these interactions, governing not only which agents can access specific data, pipelines, or models, but also the exact actions agents can perform, and for how long. With role-based segmentation running at line speed on BlueField, organizations can prevent unauthorized privilege escalation and data leakage, and enforce policy-based privilege deescalation to block risky actions, ensuring that AI agents remain trustworthy and compliant as they scale and evolve.

To further safeguard operations, Xage delivers definitive, resilient controls that are enforced even as AI systems self-modify or generate new behaviors. This gives enterprises the confidence to unlock the full productivity and potential of agentic AI, without exposing themselves to undue risk, even in the most complex, autonomous environments.

Xage also enforces secure separation of AI workloads, preventing lateral movement and safeguarding datasets, workloads, and models. Thanks to its implementation directly on the BlueField DPU, Xage’s identity-based segmentation operates at line speed, delivering low-latency, high-efficiency security that reduces the attack surface without sacrificing performance.

Finally, Xage delivers full-stack protection for mission-critical systems and applications, providing robust access controls and protection not just for AI, but the full IT and operational technology (OT) stack in the data center and critical infrastructure environments.

By running on NVIDIA BlueField, Xage brings hardware-accelerated Zero Trust enforcement to the most demanding environments, from data centers to critical infrastructure in sectors such as energy, manufacturing, utilities, and transportation where millions of assets and billions of data flows must be secured in real time. 

This integration makes it possible to govern and enforce access to assets and data at unprecedented scale, preventing unauthorized activity and containing threats before they can disrupt essential services.

Beyond protection and performance, Xage provides auditable identity and access controls to help organizations achieve compliance with cybersecurity and AI regulations, including NIST, NERC CIP, EU NIS2, and U.S. Zero Trust mandates. By supporting full visibility into who or what acts on data, models, and infrastructure, Xage builds assurance into AI-powered operations.

Global travel buyers are showing renewed confidence in the business travel sector, with 43 per cent now optimistic about the industry’s outlook for the remainder of 2025, according to the latest GBTA (Global Business Travel Association) survey.

The October survey, which polled 591 travel buyers and suppliers worldwide, found that optimism among buyers had increased by 15 percentage points compared to the association’s previous July survey.

Buyers’ outlook on business travel spending stayed relatively consistent compared with three months ago, with 30 per cent expecting a decrease in spend this year (compared with 31 per cent in July). On average, travel spend is expected to decline by 19 per cent, up slightly from 17 per cent in July.

EMEA-based travel buyers are least likely to expect a decline in volume (29 per cent) or spending (23 per cent) compared to their peers in other regions.

A third of buyer respondents (35 per cent) said they expect travel volumes to decline as a direct a result of US government actions, including the ongoing government shutdown. This decline is also expected to be around 19 per cent.

Suppliers too are regaining confidence. In October, 37 per cent expect a drop in business travel revenue, compared to 48 per cent in July.

Revenue concerns are most pronounced among accommodation suppliers (59 per cent), which is consistent with July’s result (58 per cent). Travel management companies are less likely to expect a decrease (32 per cent in October compared to 48 per cent in July) while more airline professionals expect a decline (50 per cent in October versus 39 per cent in July).

“This latest poll reflects what has always been the industry’s innate ability to innovate and change – to succeed in the face of challenges,” said GBTA CEO Suzanne Neufang.

“Business travel is showing signs of resilience and adaptation, with optimism rebounding and new patterns emerging. However, the poll results also underscore the need for thoughtful strategies to navigate external pressures and internal policy shifts,” she said.

Shifting business travel patterns

Nearly two in five travel buyers (39 per cent) reported an increase in “linked” or multi-meeting/multi-destination trips, according to GBTA’s October poll. One-third (33 per cent) have seen longer trip durations and another third (32 per cent) said day trips have decreased in the past year. 

Forty-three per cent of travel programmes now also have defined policies for blended or “bleisure” travel, with 71 per cent of buyers citing benefits of improved employee satisfaction and 68 per cent noting better work-life balance. 

However, concerns remain for travel managers around duty of care (59 per cent), expense tracking (55 per cent) and insurance coverage (46 per cent).

Meanwhile, some employees are also paying out-of-pocket for travel upgrades. Two in five travel managers (43 per cent) said their employees at least occasionally pay for upgrades that aren’t covered by company policy. These include flight cabin upgrades (78 per cent) followed by airport lounge access (30 per cent) and extra hotel nights (29 per cent).