Enterprise Agentic AI adoption faces a critical barrier: sensitive data exposure. AI agents perform tasks only as well as the context provided to them. However, context is precisely where enterprise data enters the workflow, introducing significant risk. Organizations need to deploy AI applications while maintaining strict data security, regulatory compliance, and privacy. This challenge stalls production deployments across enterprises, especially in healthcare and financial services.
Protecto Vault addresses this challenge by focusing on the data flowing into context. The platform provides context-preserving data masking for AI applications, protecting enterprise data at the most critical point in AI workflows. Protecto Vault is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace.
Why Protecto Vault
Protecto Vault is an AI-powered context security and data protection platform that automatically identifies and masks sensitive data (PII, PHI, PCI) across enterprise systems while preserving the context AI models need to function accurately. The platform uses intelligent data classification to discover sensitive information across databases and data lakes, then applies semantic masking that achieves 99% detection accuracy while maintaining highly accurate AI responses. Protecto handles both real-time interactions and high-volume batch processing at enterprise scale, with customers processing up to 13 million documents daily while reducing infrastructure costs by 90%.
“Bringing Protecto to Google Cloud Marketplace will help customers quickly deploy, manage, and grow the company’s AI context security platform on Google Cloud’s trusted, global infrastructure,” said Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs at Google Cloud. “Protecto can now securely scale and support enterprises that want to use Protecto Vault to help enforce data privacy policy directly inside AI workflows.”
Deploy Protecto Vault in Your GCP Environment
Protecto Vault is available on Google Cloud Marketplace for direct deployment into your GCP infrastructure. The platform integrates with existing Google Cloud services, provides simplified procurement through Google Cloud commitments, and runs entirely within your cloud environment for complete data control.
Key benefits for GCP customers:
- Data never leaves your GCP project or region
- Seamless integration with BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage
- Native deployment on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Streamlined procurement and billing through Google Cloud
Works with Your GCP Stack
Protecto Vault integrates directly with the Google Cloud services you’re already using:
- Data sources: Connect to BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage to protect sensitive data wherever it lives in your GCP environment.
- Compute: Deploy on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with autoscaling that adapts to your workload demands. Run protection at scale without managing infrastructure.
- AI services: Integrate with Vertex AI to secure your machine learning pipelines, from data ingestion through model training to inference.
- Monitoring: Leverage Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring for complete visibility into your data protection operations.
Everything runs in your GCP project. Your data never leaves your environment. You get full control over data residency and compliance.
The Data Privacy Challenge in AI
Enterprise AI projects frequently stall during the transition from proof-of-concept to production. Security and compliance concerns often block deployments when applications process sensitive data through AI Agents and LLMs. Questions about PII exposure, PHI protection, and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA) halt progress.
Traditional approaches fail to solve this problem:
- Generic data masking destroys context and degrades AI accuracy. Replacing with random tokens removes the semantic information AI models need.
- Lacks easy integration with Agents and MCPs
- Prompts often come with poorly formatted, mixed languages and even with typos. Generic data protection tools can’t handle the variability of prompts
Organizations need a solution that protects sensitive data while maintaining AI model accuracy and enabling production deployments. One health insurance company delayed their AI recommendation system for six months, unable to guarantee PHI protection with existing tools. After deploying Protecto Vault, the system moved to production and now delivers $30-60 million in annual benefits.
“AI has created a new reasoning layer inside the enterprise. Security controls that stop at the application boundary are no longer sufficient. AI systems continuously assemble context, and policy enforcement must move into that reasoning layer. Protecto provides that control infrastructure. Availability on Google Cloud Marketplace makes it operationally simple for enterprises to secure AI systems directly within their existing Google Cloud environments.” Amar Kanagaraj, Founder and CEO, Protecto
Platform Capabilities
Protecto Vault delivers four core capabilities for AI data protection:
- Agentic data classification: AI-powered scanning discovers and classifies sensitive data across structured and unstructured sources. Agentic data classification (aka DeepSight) automatically identifies PII, PHI, and PCI data across databases and data lakes, eliminating manual classification efforts.
- Context-preserving data masking: Semantic masking technology maintains data relationships and context while protecting sensitive information. Standard masking approaches replace “John Smith diagnosed with diabetes in Seattle” with random tokens, destroying the context AI models need. Protecto preserves semantic structure, achieving 99% PII detection accuracy while maintaining very high retention of semantic meaning in AI responses. This ensures model accuracy remains high while sensitive data stays protected.
- Enterprise-ready deployment: Production-grade features include multi-tenancy for team isolation, autoscaling for cost optimization, comprehensive audit logs for compliance verification, and role-based access control for granular data visibility. The platform supports the security, governance, and operational requirements of enterprise AI applications.
- Real-time and batch processing: The platform handles both real-time API calls for interactive applications and high-volume batch processing for RAG systems and embeddings. Customers process up to 13 million documents daily with 90% infrastructure cost reduction compared to alternative solutions.
- Zero-trust architecture: Data masking occurs by default. Unmasking requires explicit policy authorization. This lock-by-default approach protects sensitive data even when application-layer controls fail.
Production deployments demonstrate measurable outcomes across multiple industries.
“A major health insurance company deployed Protecto Vault to handle 50 million patient records for an AI recommendation system. Generic masking solutions degraded AI accuracy below acceptable thresholds. Protecto Vault achieved full HIPAA compliance while maintaining model performance. The production system delivers estimated annual benefits of $30-60 million.”
Deployment Steps
Protecto Vault is available now on Google Cloud Marketplace. Deployment requires hours rather than weeks and integrates with existing AI applications without requiring architectural changes.
Implementation process:
- Deploy Protecto Vault from Google Cloud Marketplace into your GCP project with the help of our team.
- Configure protection policies for relevant data types (PII, PHI, financial data, custom entities)
- Integrate with AI applications using Protecto APIs hosted on your GCP project.
- Enable protection across the complete AI lifecycle (training data, prompts, responses)
The platform addresses the primary challenge in production AI deployment: securing sensitive data while maintaining model accuracy. Organizations can deploy AI applications with regulatory compliance and data protection built in from the start.
For deployment on Google Cloud Marketplace, visit the marketplace listing. For technical consultation or specific implementation requirements, contact the Protecto team at sales@protecto.ai
