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

  1. Ai Security Research Engineer

    Cisco

    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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