Case Study: HiringBranch achieves unified security and compliance with Aikido

How HiringBranch unified security & compliance

HiringBranch, an HRTech company providing pre-hire assessments, faced significant challenges with its fragmented security and compliance processes. As a growing company handling sensitive candidate data, its previous setup was a chaotic mix of disconnected open-source and platform-specific tools like SonarQube, which were manual, error-prone, and difficult to maintain. This patchwork system became a major obstacle when the company began pursuing enterprise clients and its SOC 2 Type II compliance certification.

By implementing the Aikido security platform, HiringBranch consolidated its security tooling from five different systems into one. Aikido provided a unified solution that automated vulnerability scanning, delivered real-time alerts via Slack, and seamlessly integrated with their Vanta compliance platform to auto-sync evidence. This automation eliminated the manual report collection that was previously required for audits. As a result, HiringBranch achieved a proactive security posture, successfully completed its SOC 2 Type II certification, and gained peace of mind with a process that is always audit-ready.

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Eric Dofonsou

Chief Technology Officer