Data Privacy Vault for AI

Use sensitive data in AI without exposing it

Protecto Vault finds sensitive data, replaces it with tokens your AI can still work with, and returns real values only to authorized users. Deploy in private cloud, on-premises or air-gapped.

Trusted by regulated enterprises & agentic platforms
Inovalon
Automation Anywhere
Citrix
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Dell
Customer results

Automation Anywhere runs Protecto Vault at enterprise scale

5,000+

Live enterprise tenants at Automation Anywhere

13M+

Long texts processed per day at a SaaS company

50M+

Records protected at a healthcare insurer

Why masked data can stall an AI project

A claims team wants an assistant over its support notes. Security strips every name first, so the model reads “[REDACTED] called about [REDACTED]’s claim” and loses track of who is who.

Answers get vague. The team turns masking off to ship, and the exposure comes back. Protecto Vault is built so you do not have to pick one.

Placeholders strip the meaning.

When every name becomes the same placeholder, the model can no longer tell people, accounts or events apart.

Each system masks in its own way.

One customer becomes several values, so joins break and the same person looks like three across your tools.

Nobody has a governed way back.

Support and fraud teams sometimes need the real value. Without a control, nobody can show who saw what, or why.

Follow one note through Protecto Vault

Step through the path with Protecto on and off, and see where real values end up. Vault is the foundation of the Protecto data control plane.

Synthetic example. Your policy decides what gets masked and who can see it.

    The right token for each kind of data

    Tables need tokens that fit the column. Free text needs tokens that keep the sentence readable. Protecto Vault applies the right strategy for structured and unstructured sources.

    Consistent everywhere. “Sarah Mitchell” in your CRM, data warehouse, EHR or chat log maps to one token, so joins and foreign keys still work.

    Accuracy you can measure. We track how well LLM answers hold up after masking with RARI, our accuracy metric.

    Database columns

    523-44-8812<SSN>971-19-4799</SSN>
    9876543210<PHONE>8349201756</PHONE>
    1988-04-12<DATE>2051-09-27</DATE>

    The masked value keeps the same length and character set, so it still passes downstream validation.

    Synthetic examples. The same value always gets the same token, in any session, at any time.

    Built to go into your stack

    You do not need to rebuild data protection for each AI project. Protecto Vault is a headless API, so one call from your code protects the data.

    Call it your way

    Real-time, async and bulk APIs, from LangChain, LlamaIndex or your own code.

    Run it in your pipelines

    Use the API, a Snowflake UDF, Databricks, Kafka or Spark.

    Keep your own auth

    Protecto Vault is a headless API, so you can build it into your own auth, identity and access systems.

    Deploy where the data lives

    SaaS, private cloud, on-premises or air-gapped.

    A SaaS company cut cost by 90% compared with its in-house estimate, and a Fortune 100 company deployed within days. Book a demo to start your free trial, which includes a 4-week pilot.

    Context-Based Access Control

    Control what each agent can see

    A sales agent and a support agent can read the same note, yet need different parts of it. CBAC decides at each request: who asks, for what task, and what they may see.

    User access is not task access. Protecto Vault protects the values, and CBAC adds the control over when an agent or workflow can see them.

    Account activity noteExample

    Example: the same account note read by three agents and one tool call, no schema, no fixed fields.

    Who is reading this note?(click a tab to switch)

    Raw note before any policy runs. Every entity is visible.

    → This is what enters the model before CBAC evaluates the request.

    Every access decision is logged, who, what, when, why.
    Powered by DeepSight

    Find the sensitive data generic tools miss

    Healthcare has MRNs and NPI numbers. Banking has IBAN codes and internal policy fields. Generic tools miss them.

    DeepSight, the agentic detection and classification engine inside Protecto Vault, reads the context and finds them.

    • 50+ PII, PHI and PCI entity types out of the box
    • Custom entities added in days, from your own schema knowledge
    • Industry-specific add-ons for healthcare and banking
    • Structured columns and free text, tested in seven languages

    What your team gets around the tokens

    Tokens are one part. Protecto also applies your policy, isolates each tenant and keeps the records your auditors ask for.

    01

    Policy you define once

    Each policy sets which entities are masked and how, then applies wherever Protecto runs.

    02

    True multi-tenancy

    Isolate teams and customers, with policy and retention set per tenant.

    03

    Audit logs and reports

    Every scan, mask and unmask is logged. Reports show where sensitive data flows and how your data policies were enforced.

    04

    Data retention APIs

    Control the data lifecycle through the API.

    Where teams use Protecto today

    Protecto handles the data protection. Your team focuses on building.

    Agentic AI and RAG pipelines

    Feed your LLMs and agents without sending raw PII to external models. Protecto masks the data first and unmasks responses for authorized users only.

    Healthcare AI

    De-identify PHI across EHR exports, clinical notes and imaging metadata. Support HIPAA Safe Harbor de-identification while keeping model accuracy.

    Financial services

    Tokenize PII and PCI data for fraud detection and credit risk models. Join customer data across systems without exposing raw values.

    Dev and test environments

    Give engineers masked copies of production data that keep their shape, so tests stay meaningful.

    Data migration and ETL

    Mask large tables in bulk during data lake migrations, cloud moves or platform consolidations. Schema stays intact.

    Cross-border data sharing

    Share data across teams, subsidiaries and partners in different regions. The same record gets the same token everywhere.

    Independently Verified

    Higher precision.
    Fewer false positives.

    A third-party study by DataXpert, in collaboration with UT Dallas, benchmarked Protecto against AWS Comprehend and Microsoft Presidio on 3,000 samples across 8 PII categories.
    • Protecto had the highest or tied-highest precision in every category tested.
    • Near-zero false positives on SSNs, credit card numbers and phone numbers.
    • Protecto also outperformed Protegrity in a head-to-head POC for an enterprise bank.
    Precision by entity typeHigher is better
    Precision by entity type
    EntityProtectoAWS ComprehendMS Presidio
    SSN Identification100%31%81%
    Credit Card100%49%64%
    Phone Number99%62%60%
    Source: Quantitative Benchmark Study, PII Identification, DataXpert / UT Dallas, 2025

    “Protecto enabled us to deliver data security, privacy, and compliance for our AI features at scale across 5,000+ enterprise clients, strengthening customer trust in our AI automation solutions.”

    SS
    Steve Shah
    SVP Product, Automation Anywhere
    Security & compliance

    Built for regulated data at enterprise scale.

    Protecto combines data protection, audit logs, and ready-to-use policies for regulated data, whether deployed as SaaS, on-prem, in a private cloud, or air-gapped.

    SOC 2 Type II

    Audited controls

    ISO 27001

    Certified ISMS

    HIPAA

    BAA available

    GDPR

    EU data ready

    PDPL / SAMA

    Saudi privacy and banking

    CCPA / CPRA

    US privacy
    Independently verified to outperform AWS Comprehend and Microsoft Presidio · audit logs on every scan, mask, and unmask.

    Go deeper.

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    Datasheet · 5 pages

    Protecto Privacy Vault datasheet

    How Protecto Vault detects, masks, and controls access to sensitive data across agents, AI applications, RAG pipelines, MCPs, data lakes, and enterprise systems.

    Common questions

    What is a data privacy vault?

    A data privacy vault is a secure system that finds, masks, tokenizes and stores sensitive data such as PII, PHI, financial information and business-specific identifiers. It replaces that data with protected values and keeps the context applications and AI need. The original data can be restored only for authorized users and approved workflows.

    Check detection accuracy, support for structured and unstructured data, consistent and reversible tokenization, granular access controls, audit logging, deployment flexibility, compliance support and performance at production scale.

    Protecto Vault is a headless API. Your application calls it where sensitive data flows, you set detection and masking policies, and you define who can unmask. It runs in real time or asynchronously, as SaaS, in your private cloud, on-premises or air-gapped.

    Yes, through Privacy Gateway. You keep each user’s masking and unmasking access in AD or Okta groups, and Gateway issues a Protecto auth key with that access at login. If you use Protecto Vault directly, it’s a headless API, so your team can build the integration around it.

    It can. Placeholders that strip context leave the model guessing. Protecto keeps the semantic structure, so LLMs still understand what they are working with. We measure this with RARI, our accuracy metric.

    The same value always gets the same token, in any session, at any time. So “Sarah J. Mitchell” in your CRM and data warehouse maps to one token, and you can join datasets and run analytics without raw PII.

    Usually, yes. Tokenization is pseudonymization, not anonymization: while a mapping exists, a token can be linked back to a person. Your counsel decides what that means for each dataset.

    Yes. DeepSight lets you add custom entity types, and they can be added in days. Industry-specific add-ons for healthcare and banking are also available.

    SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PDPL, SAMA and CPRA. When Protecto hosts or manages the service, or has access to your installed instance, Protecto signs a BAA before PHI flows. When Protecto runs in your environment with no Protecto access, Protecto does not receive PHI and is not a business associate.

    See it on your own data

    Bring a sample, with test data if you prefer. In 30 minutes, we will show you what Protecto finds and how your AI still works.

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    Benchmark study

    PII/PHI detection, benchmarked by UT Dallas and DataXpert

    A third-party study compares how accurately Protecto, Microsoft Presidio, and AWS Comprehend find personal and health data in unstructured text.

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    Datasheet

    Protecto Vault: sensitive data protection for AI workflows

    Features that safeguard your data across agents, AI applications, RAG pipelines, MCPs, data lakes, and enterprise systems.

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    Datasheet

    DeepSight: PII and PHI detection and masking effectiveness

    How DeepSight finds PII and PHI from context, with Protecto’s internal test results.

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    Technical guide

    Protect sensitive data without breaking AI workflows

    A practical guide to privacy controls for AI assistants, RAG, and agents. One workflow traced from request to CRM update, with what each destination may see.

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