Amar Kanagaraj

Founder & CEO at Protecto

Amar Kanagaraj is an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader with extensive experience in technology and data privacy. As the Founder and CEO of Protecto since September 2020, Amar focuses on engineering a privacy-first world by empowering enterprises with advanced intelligence to safeguard privacy and manage data protection risks. Prior to this role, Amar co-founded FileCloud and served as Chief Marketing Officer from 2016 to 2019, successfully promoting innovative data solutions. Amar's career at Microsoft spanned from 2008 to 2016, holding various leadership positions in business planning and strategy for Search, AI, and Bing. Earlier experience includes roles at Booz & Company and Sun Microsystems, where strategic and technical expertise was developed. Amar holds an MBA in Strategy, Finance, and Marketing from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master’s in Computer Science from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy.

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Protecto

Privacy and Data Security Throughout Your GenAI Lifecycle Protecto makes all your interactions with GenAI safer. We protect your sensitive data, prevent privacy violations, and mitigate security risks across: 1) Prompts: Protecto filters PII and sensitive data from your prompts, preventing privacy violations and ensuring that your data is protected. 2) Responses: Protecto can retrofit enterprise models (pre-trained, tuned, or RAG) to prevent privacy and security leaks in the responses. This helps you to ensure that your models are always generating safe and compliant outputs. 3)Training/Tuning: Protecto helps you to remove privacy and data security risks right at the testing and tuning data level, so all LLM interactions are safe. This gives you peace of mind knowing that your models are trained on clean and secure data. With Protecto, you can leverage the power of GenAI without sacrificing privacy or security. If you are looking for a way to make your GenAI interactions safer, then Protecto is the solution for you.


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