Multi-tenant HRIS: verifying that one client can't see another's data
The most expensive HRIS risk
When a vendor hosts multiple customer companies on the same database, an isolation bug doesn't affect one client. It affects the whole portfolio.
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Three quick tests
organization_id in an API request and see what comes back;What reassures an enterprise buyer
They want to see: database-level RLS, automated isolation tests, and an external audit that has already tried to cross the tenant line. Without that, the security questionnaire gets painful.
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