Tech Behind Protecto

Revolutionizing Data Privacy for the AI Era

Protect your data with cutting-edge features that ensures privacy, compliance, and usability—all without compromising accuracy.

Core Challenges in Modern Data Privacy

Modern enterprises face unprecedented challenges in managing sensitive data amidst growing data diversity and compliance demands. Protecto is a cutting-edge, API-based data privacy solution designed to address these complexities by safeguarding sensitive data while ensuring usability across AI and analytics workflows. Discover how our technology transforms data privacy into a seamless, scalable, and effective solution.

The Complexity of Data Environments

Structured and Unstructured Data: Enterprises handle diverse data types, including XML, JSON, databases, and free-form text.
Data Pipelines and AI Workflows: Seamless integration with ETL pipelines and AI/LLM systems is crucial for operational efficiency.
Geo-Residency and Compliance: Ensuring regional compliance while isolating customer data remains a top priority.

Growing Data Variety and Sensitivity

Protecto's Technological Foundation

Protecto’s intelligent masking techniques safeguard sensitive information while preserving usability, ensuring compliance and seamless integration across systems and AI applications.

API-Driven Privacy Engine

Built on FastAPI for asynchronous, high-performance processing.
RESTful Design ensures seamless client integration.
Supports bulk operations, real-time responses, and asynchronous tasks for large datasets.

Advanced Data Tokenization

Entropy-Based Tokens: Format- and structure-preserving tokenization for sensitive data.
Policy-Based Tokenization: Tailored policies for anonymizable, pseudonymizable, and excluded entities.
Reversible Masking: Secure unmasking for authorized personnel.

Multi-Layered Data Security

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Fine-grained user permissions and namespace isolation.
Data Encryption: In transit and at rest, with regular key rotation.
Audit Trails: Comprehensive logging for compliance and usage tracking.

AI-Powered Data Identification and Context Preservation

Leverages cutting-edge NLP models to identify sensitive data with precision while preserving semantic meaning. Ensures data usability for AI and analytics without compromising privacy.

Natural Language Processing Models

Named Entity Recognition (NER): Identifies sensitive data using state-of-the-art models like ner-english-large.
Contextual Understanding: Models such as Knowledgegator enable semantic masking while retaining usability.
Toxicity Detection: Analyzes harmful content with tools like Detoxify.

Customization and Flexibility

Regex Patterns: Identify and verify organization-specific sensitive data (e.g., social security numbers, account IDs).
Regulatory Compliance: Handles PII, PHI, and PCI DSS data in alignment with GDPR, HIPAA, and other global standards.

Scalable and Modular Architecture

Protecto's microservices architecture and Kubernetes orchestration ensure dynamic scalability, modularity, and fault tolerance. Optimized for high performance and seamless maintenance.

Microservices Design

Tokenizer Service: Handles masking, unmasking, and metadata management.
Asynchronous Processing: Bulk operations managed via RabbitMQ.
API Gateway: Centralized routing, authentication, and rate limiting.

Scalable Deployment

Kubernetes Orchestration: Dynamic scaling based on workload.
Cloud-Native and On-Premises Options: Deployable on AWS, Azure, GCP, or private data centers.

Data Flow: A Seamless Privacy Pipeline

From request handling to tokenization and secure storage, Protecto streamlines sensitive data management. Comprehensive audit logging ensures transparency and compliance.

Request Handling: Clients send API requests via the gateway.
Sensitive Data Detection: NLP models identify PII in input text.
Tokenization: Data replaced with secure tokens.
Storage: Masked data and metadata securely stored in TiDB.
Unmasking: Authorized users retrieve original data.
Audit Logging: Comprehensive logging ensures compliance and accountability.

High-Performance Features

Designed to handle large-scale operations, Protecto offers auto-scaling, bulk processing, and high availability. Guarantees peak efficiency even during fluctuating workloads.

Dynamic Scalability

Auto-Scaling: Adapts to peak demands and reduces resource usage during downtime.
Bulk Processing: Efficiently handles millions of documents and rows.

AI Accuracy Preservation

Maintains data context and structure, ensuring LLMs and analytics workflows remain effective.

High Availability and Redundancy

Multi-Zone Replication: Ensures data durability and disaster recovery.
Fault Tolerance: Redundant services maintain business continuity.

Built for Enterprise. Optimized for Scale.

On-Premises or SaaS

Deploy Protecto on your servers or consume it as SaaS. Either way, get the full benefits including multitenancy.

Simple APIs

Use sync and async APIs to integrate with any part: preprocessing, context data, prompt, or response.

Auto-scale

Protecto's architecture scales to process billions of rows or runs lightweight on-edge devices, offering versatility and efficiency.

Why Choose Protecto?

The Perfect Choice for Your Data Protection Needs

Trusted, accurate, and compliant—designed to keep your data private and functional.