Positions as an ultra-fast, zero-allocation alternative to CPU-heavy log processors like Fluentd/Logstash, focusing on early-stage redaction (at the pod level) to ensure 100% privacy.

Leadership

Founders

Ilya Ploskovitov

Senior Engineer and Security Researcher. Previously Senior QA Engineer at LUCY Security and Software Engineer/QA at Alfa-Bank. Education: Moscow Banking Institute (MBI).

Executive Team

Ilya Ploskovitov

Founder & Senior Engineer

Expert in resilient systems, security research, and PII compliance automation.

Founding Story

Started to address the common failure of developers to mask sensitive data in logs and the high resource consumption of traditional regex filters in log aggregators.

Business Model

Revenue Model

Open Core / Support & Sponsorship / Future SaaS (Cloud Control Plane)

Pricing Tiers

Open Source

Free

Apache 2.0 license, core engine, K8s operator, and basic detectors.

PII-Shield Cloud (Waitlist)

Contact for Details

Hosted control plane for centralized rule management, Slack alerting, and redaction analytics.

Enterprise Sponsorship

Tiered (GitHub Sponsors)

Priority support, faster triage, and feature prioritization for production users.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

DevSecOps Teams
Kubernetes Infrastructure Engineers
AI/ML Data Engineering Teams
Compliance & Privacy Officers

Use Cases

Kubernetes Log Sanitization
AI Training Data PII Protection
GDPR/SOC2 Compliance Automation
Secure Evidence Trails in AI Agents

Notable Customers

GuardSpine

Quick Facts

Headquarters

Rishon LeZion, Israel

Founded

2024

Entity Type

Open Source Project / Bootstrapped Startup

Employees

Total Funding

Bootstrapped

Office Locations

Rishon LeZion

History & Milestones

2026-05

Release of PII-Shield v2.0.0 featuring native Kubernetes sidecar support and distroless security hardening.

2025

Strategic integration with GuardSpine AI Governance Kernel for in-process WASM log sanitization.

2024

Launch of PII-Shield v1.0.0 as an open-source log sanitization tool.

Key Capabilities

Smart Entropy Engine (Shannon Entropy detection)

Zero-GC Architecture (Near-zero memory allocations)

Deterministic Redaction (HMAC-SHA256 with salt)

Hybrid Protection (Entropy + Whitelists)

Zero-code K8s Sidecar Injection

WASM In-Process execution

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

Kubernetes
Helm
Docker
WASM
GitHub Actions
npm
PyPI

Key Partnerships

GuardSpine

Connect

Website

pii-shield.com/

GitHub

aragossa

AI Topics

aragossa focuses on these topics:

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