The moment your data enters an AI workflow, your existing security controls don’t get bypassed - they evaporate.

Amar Kanagaraj, founder of Protecto, makes the case for an independent trust layer built for the AI era covering a Middle Eastern bank that can’t let data leave the country, a healthcare company whose real risk was never the model, and an AI built to understand “salary information” as a concept, not just a pattern.

His core analogy: brakes don’t slow a Ferrari down. They’re what let it go fast.