Telos Launches Xacta.ai, Dramatically Cutting Cyber Compliance Timelines with AI-Driven Automation

ASHBURN, Va., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (NASDAQ: TLS), a leader in cyber risk management and compliance solutions, today announced the launch of ™ the AI capability at the core of the Xacta^® cyber governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform. Xacta.ai helps organizations dramatically cut compliance timelines while delivering expert-level, real-time insights that transform how risk and compliance are managed.

“With Xacta.ai, we’re not just adding AI to cyber GRC – we’re redefining what’s possible,” said John B. Wood, CEO and chairman, Telos. “By uniting decades of cyber risk management and security compliance expertise with the latest AI innovations, we’re equipping organizations with the insight they need to move past reactive check-the-box compliance and take control of their risk management with greater clarity and confidence.”

Xacta.ai enables teams to integrate their unique content and expertise, then query it alongside existing data to uncover instant, actionable insights. The result: dramatically accelerated compliance processes and more informed decision-making.

“Organizations face mounting pressure to manage complex compliance obligations with speed and consistency,” said Michael Rasmussen, GRC Analyst and Pundit, GRC 20/20 Research. “By embedding years of regulatory and security expertise into AI-assisted workflows, Xacta.ai reduces manual effort, improves consistency, and enables faster, more informed decisions. This reflects a broader market trend of using AI not to replace governance, but to empower more effective and timely risk management.”

Time Savings and Efficiency Gains

In pilot testing, Xacta.ai reduced critical compliance tasks from 4–6 months to just nine days, and cut the time to generate a single control implementation statement from over an hour to less than five minutes – a 93% overall time savings.

AI That Understands Cyber GRC

Built on 25 years of in-the-field innovation, data, best practices and subject matter expertise, Xacta.ai gives you the equivalent of a team of seasoned experts trained in over two decades of GRC best practices and ready to answer your questions. Xacta.ai can be customized with your organization’s data, which enables precise, context-aware responses to complex GRC questions in seconds. Powered by real-time, pre-engineered prompts, AI-assisted data tagging, and a dynamic and trained retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), key capabilities of Xacta.ai include:

• Instant Control Implementation: Prepare accurate, comprehensive control implementation statements in seconds.
  
  
  
  
• AI-Driven Control Validation: Generate tailored test procedures for your unique systems and components.
  
  
  
  
• Risk Remediation: Receive and refine actionable remediation steps for identified risks and refine further in intuitive chat.
  
  
  
  
• Contextual Risk Insights: Identify gaps and analyze risk with just a few clicks.
  
  
  
  
• Adaptive Prompt Library: Accelerate Authority to Operate (ATO) decisions with pre-built, customizable prompts.
  
  

Fast and Accurate Compliance Starts Now

Xacta.ai is now available on the Xacta platform. To see how your organization can save time, accelerate compliance and reduce cyber risk, visit .

About Telos Corporation

(NASDAQ: TLS) empowers and protects the world’s most security-conscious organizations with solutions for continuous security assurance of individuals, systems, and information. Telos’ offerings include cybersecurity solutions for IT risk management and information security; cloud security solutions to protect cloud-based assets and enable continuous compliance with industry and government security standards; and enterprise security solutions for identity and access management, secure mobility, organizational messaging, and network management and defense. The company serves commercial enterprises, regulated industries and government customers around the world. 

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements which are made under the safe harbor provisions of the federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements concerning the performance of and benefits customers could expect to receive from Xacta.ai. These statements are based on the Company’s management’s current beliefs, expectations and assumptions about future events, conditions and results and on information currently available to them. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. The Company believes that these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” set forth from time to time in the Company’s filings and reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as well as subsequent and future filings and reports by the Company, copies of which are available at and on the SEC’s website at

Although the Company bases these forward-looking statements on assumptions that its management believes are reasonable when made, the Company cautions the reader that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that the Company’s actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, customers’ experience and results from, and the performance of, Xacta.ai, and industry developments, may differ materially from statements made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained in this release. Given these risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond its control, the Company cautions the reader not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of such statement and, except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement publicly, or to revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or developments occurring after the date of the statement, even if new information becomes available in the future. Comparisons of results for current and any prior periods are not intended to express any future trends or indications of future performance, unless specifically expressed as such, and should only be viewed as historical data.

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