An AmeriSOURCE Group Company
The Turning Point
A decade or so ago, Sandy and Gulab were just two software developers building custom enterprise applications for a healthcare technology firm. They wrote elegant code, met deadlines, and considered security to be someone else's department. That changed on a Tuesday morning in March of 2012.
Their biggest client—a regional healthcare provider serving over 300,000 patients—called in a panic. Their patient portal had been breached. Personal health information was compromised. Operations were in chaos.
They needed help, and fast. For the next 72 hours, Sandy and Gulab worked alongside their IT team to contain the damage. What they discovered was sobering: the breach hadn't required sophisticated tools or nation-state hackers—just a simple oversight in code they had written months earlier. A vulnerability they should have caught.
"If we had just approached this differently from the beginning," Sandy said as they drove home after three sleepless nights, "none of this would have happened."
WHEN A BREACH BECOMES A CALLING
That breach became their turning point. They realized that in today's connected world, security couldn't be an afterthought or "someone else's department." It needed to be woven into every line of code, every system design, every business process.
They immersed themselves in cybersecurity—earning certifications, attending conferences, and consulting with security experts. They discovered that their background in software development gave them a unique perspective: they understood both how applications were built and how they could be compromised.
Eventually, Sandy and Gulab took the leap and founded a cybersecurity firm in India with a mission to bridge the gap between development and security—to build protection from the ground up rather than trying to add it later.
Fast forward to circa 2025. Sandeep extended his arm to AmeriSOURCE to launch IronQlad to bring their overseas success to the United States.
THE TURNING POINT
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When a Breach Becomes a Calling
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