Sanket Mendapara
AI Security Researcher | Cisco AI Team
- Role
- Ai Security Research Engineer at Cisco
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sanket Mendapara
Research Areas • Threat research and intelligence analysis, AI threats and risks…
Experience
Ai Security Research Engineer
Jul 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Working towards building a wholesome Agentic AI Security Product at Cisco (AI Defense)- Researching and simulating different novel Adversarial Attack Techniques & finding vulnerabilities in Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLM) based applications as a part of the Threat Research & Protections (TRAP) team- Helping build Security for AI products at Cisco (AI Defense), incorporating guardrails and safety measures to protect Generative AI systems against novel adversarial attacks, Jailbreaks, etc. Trained and fine-tuned a range of ML models/LLMs to demo the detection capabilities against prompt-based attacks on Gen AI applications- Working on AI red teaming workflows by simulating diverse attack techniques and vectors, such as Jailbreaking, PII leakage, Obfuscation, harmful content, etc- Developing and implementing evaluation benchmarking datasets for security, safety & privacy evaluations of LLM-based systems. This included a wide variety of attack techniques and conversation (single-turn and multi-turn) datasets- Threat Detection Lead for Armorblox Email Protection product.
Education
The LNM Institute of Information Technology
Bachelor's Degree, Communication and Computer Engineering
2014 — 2018
New York University
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity
Skills
- C
- Ccp
- Network Security
- Cisco Asa
- Cisco Systems Products
- Linux
- Ccna Security
- Computer Networking
- Ccna R&S
- Java
- Routing Protocols
- Switching
- Security Protocols
- Security
- Cisco Ios
- Routing
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