Case Study

Fortune 100 Tech Leader Secures AI Agents While Preserving Performance

“The key win was that we didn’t need to rewire anything—we plugged Protecto into our existing planner and AD stack and started enforcing real-time data policies within days.”

— Director of AI Platform, Fortune 100 Tech Company

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How A Fortune 100 Giant Put Secure Guardrails On Its Ai—Without Slowing It Down

Impact Statistics

100%

Regulatory Compliance Achieved

1 week

Time to implement enterprise-wide AI security

Zero

Performance Latency in AI Workflows

The Challenge

Securing Autonomous AI in a Complex Enterprise Environment

A Fortune 100 technology leader needed to implement robust security measures for their next-generation AI infrastructure powered by multi-agent architectures. As their autonomous AI agents began reading, interpreting, and acting on enterprise data across multiple departments, they faced critical security and compliance challenges.

highlights
  • Sensitive data flowing through agent chains requiring protection across documents, logs, emails, and support tickets
  • Global regulatory compliance requirements including GDPR and data residency restrictions
  • Need to preserve AI reasoning capabilities while protecting sensitive information
  • Role-based access control requirements varying by team and function
  • Enterprise integration demands with existing Active Directory and orchestration pipelines
The Solution

Policy Enforcement for AI with Protecto Vault

Protecto Vault was deployed as the core enforcement layer in the company's AI architecture, serving as the policy and control plane for sensitive data handling.

Context-Aware Masking

  • Automatically identifies and tokenizes sensitive data without breaking semantic meaning
  • Preserves AI understanding and reasoning capabilities while protecting information
  • Maintains the context necessary for accurate LLM outputs

Policy-Based Unmasking

  • Grants access only to users or agents with proper authorization based on AD roles
  • Enforces contextual permissions that respect data access policies
  • Enables fine-grained control over what data can be revealed and when

Zero-Trust Architecture

  • Implements "lock-by-default" approach aligned with zero-trust principles
  • Inspects, evaluates, and masks every AI prompt in real-time
  • Ensures data is only exposed when policy, identity, and context allow it
The Results

Enterprise-Grade AI Security Without Sacrificing Performance

By integrating Protecto Vault, the Fortune 100 company created a secure foundation for its agentic architecture—ensuring AI could act autonomously while staying compliant and trustworthy.

Key Achievements
  • Full regulatory compliance with data residency, GDPR, and internal security requirements
  • Preserved AI reasoning capabilities by retaining semantic meaning in masked data
  • Real-time role-based access control tied directly to existing AD roles
  • Zero-trust at inference time without introducing latency
  • Comprehensive audit logging for all data access and masking actions
  • Seamless integration with existing enterprise systems and workflows

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