Paramount Defenses Founder and CEO

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"Security is an important issue for organizations as well as individuals. I would advise all organizations to attain and maintain a sound security posture. The work that Sanjay Tandon is doing to help organizations become and stay secure is great for the ecosystem."

JC Cannon, Senior Privacy Strategist
Trustworthy Computing Group

Leadership

Paramount Defenses is the brainchild of Sanjay Tandon, formerly, Program Manager for Active Directory Security at Microsoft Corporation. From the entire U.S. Government to the global Fortune 1000, at the very foundation of cyber security at 85% of all organizations worldwide lies Microsoft Active Directory.

Tandon was Program Manager for Active Directory Security on Microsoft's Windows Server Development Team in the early 2000s. As Microsoft's subject matter expert, he was responsible for all aspects of Active Directory Security.

In 2004, he also proposed, conducted and delivered a risk-assessment of Microsoft own massive global Active Directory deployment, the very foundation of Microsoft's security, to the highest offices at Microsoft, enhancing Microsoft's security. He also helped enhance the cyber security posture of many Fortune 100 companies and governments around the world.

In 2005, Tandon left Microsoft to pursue his passion for cyber security, and founded Paramount Defenses in 2006.

Over the last eighteen years, he has successfully led Paramount Defenses, from concept to development and delivery of numerous unique, high-value innovative cyber security products that are deployed across the world today.

Tandon earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2001.

Microsoft Years

Tandon joined Microsoft Corporation in 2001 and served the company in two vital capacities.

As Microsoft's first Program Manager for Active Directory Security on Microsoft's distinguished Windows Server Development Team, Tandon was Microsoft's authoritative subject matter expert on Active Directory Security.

In this role, he designed Active Directory Security features, authored functional specifications and official Microsoft technical guidance and presented at industry conferences (e.g. TechEds.) He also provided guidance to Microsoft IT, Microsoft's Product Support Teams, Microsoft Consulting Services and many of Microsoft's top enterprise customers.

In 2004, Tandon transitioned to Microsoft IT Corporate Security's distinguished Threat and Risk Assessment Team, and single-handedly conducted and delivered a risk assessment of Microsoft's global Active Directory deployment. The recommendations of his risk assessment led to significant enhancements in Microsoft's foundational cyber security.

For his contributions to Microsoft's customers, he was awarded the Passion for Customers award at Microsoft.

Paramount Defenses

After serving Microsoft in two vital capacities, Tandon founded Paramount Defenses in 2006 to help organizations address a fundamental and paramount unsolved challenge in cyber security.

That challenge was to help organizations be able to find out "Exactly who has what access in their IT infrastructures."

To address this paramount challenge, Tandon pioneered and led the development of, and ultimately delivered the world's first and only effective access assessment solution, Gold Finger.

Gold Finger is the world's only solution that can accurately assess privileged access in Active Directory deployments, and determine who has the "Keys to the Kingdom", worldwide, and it is the gold standard in privileged access assessment.

Tandon also holds the cyber security patent that governs the determination of access entitlements in systems, which he penned in 2007, and which is cited by patents from many of the world's top cyber security companies, such as Microsoft.

Contributions to Cyber Security

Over the last two decades, Mr. Tandon's work has helped enhance cyber security worldwide -

2004 - Tandon authored Microsoft's official whitepaper on Delegation of Administrative Authority in Active Directory.
2006 to 2012 - Tandon architected, and led the development and delivery of Gold Finger, the world's only accurate privileged access audit solution for Active Directory.
2013 - Tandon was awarded a high-value cyber security patent, governing access assessment, by the U.S. PTO.
2015 - 2019 - Tandon helped organizations worldwide understand the paramount importance of AD Security, primarily by sharing valuable technical insights at cyber-security-blog.com and active-directory-security.com.
2020 - 2022 - Tandon led the development and completion of Gold Finger Mini 007G and Gold Finger 007G.
2022 - 2024 - Tandon is leading the research and development of two new products, to be unveiled in 2025.