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Defense for multi-tenant SaaS —
isolation, API abuse, SOC 2 evidence.

Mandala IT hardens B2B SaaS platforms against the failure modes that scale with multi-tenancy: cross-tenant data leakage, customer-facing API abuse, tenant impersonation, and the audit-evidence drift that SOC 2 examiners surface every cycle.

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  • 0SaaS security tooling by 2030 (USD)
  • 0Avg SaaS breach cost (USD)
01 · Market

A multi-tens-of-billions security tooling market expanding with every multi-tenant deployment.

B2B SaaS security tooling has shifted from optional to procurement-table-stakes.

SaaS security tooling market

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Industry research band — growing toward $20B+ by 2030.

Avg SaaS breach cost

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Industry average per IBM Cost of a Data Breach across SaaS/tech.

Cross-tenant incidents / yr

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Public multi-tenant data-leak disclosures rising as SaaS market matures.

Why budgets keep growing

Every enterprise customer asks how do you prevent tenant-X data from reaching tenant-Y. The vendor with continuous evidence wins.

Why the model fits

SaaS buyers consume defense as per-tenant + per-API-call usage — exactly the shape of performance-based billing.

02 · Risk surface

The threat landscape Mandala IT is built to defend against.

Eight overlapping risks — every one undermines tenant trust or surfaces during a SOC 2 / ISO audit.

03 · The company

Mandala IT — purpose-built for multi-tenant SaaS reality.

Mandala IT operates inside the rapidly expanding SaaS security tooling segment, delivering a unified detection-and-evidence layer designed to enforce tenant boundaries, defend customer APIs, and produce SOC 2 / ISO evidence by default.

  • Tenant-isolation enforcement at the query, queue, and storage boundary
  • Customer-facing API abuse detection with per-tenant baselines
  • Customer-side ATO detection and admin-role anomaly alerts
  • Continuous SOC 2 / ISO evidence collection — no audit-week scramble
  • Per-tenant compliance dashboards exportable to customer auditors

“Multi-tenant SaaS security is one boundary problem repeated thousands of times. The right engine produces the evidence that this boundary held — continuously, not at audit-week.”

04 · Differentiator

Performance-based + per-tenant — billing matches the failure-mode it defends against.

Mandala IT introduces a model where SaaS vendors primarily pay against tenant-isolation breaks prevented, customer-API abuse stopped, and SOC 2 evidence delivered.

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Lower barrier to entry

Per-tenant pricing means startups can adopt early and scale billing with growth.

02

Aligned vendor incentives

Provider revenue rises when tenant trust and audit posture improve.

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Evidence-as-a-service

Per-tenant compliance exports are a billable line — your customers' auditors get what they need.

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Recurring revenue potential

Continuous API volume = continuous scoring = continuous billing.

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Startup + scale-up + enterprise

Same engine serves Series-A founder, Series-C VP Engineering, and post-IPO CISO.

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Boundary enforced at four layers

Tenant boundary is enforced at query, cache, queue, and storage — independently. Every crossing attempt produces an audit row your customers' auditors can read.

05 · Pillars

What we cover for you.

Five pillars under one engine — the bundle every B2B SaaS CISO / CTO buys together.

Defense pillars

  • Tenant isolation enforcement
  • Customer-facing API abuse defense
  • Customer-facing ATO
  • SOC 2 / ISO continuous evidence

What it documents

  • Cross-tenant access attempts (blocked + evidenced)
  • Per-tenant compliance dashboards
  • Subprocessor exposure ledger
  • Customer-auditor-ready exports

How it operates

  • Per-tenant scoring on every API call
  • Schema-aware anomaly detection
  • Continuous tenant-isolation verification
  • Per-tenant + per-API-call billing
Case study · anonymised under client NDA

How we walked a Series-C SaaS through pre-IPO diligence with the evidence already collected.

Buyer profile

B2B SaaS · Series-C · pre-IPO

Tenants
~3,000 multi-tenant
Engagement
Tenant-boundary audit + continuous SOC 2 · 14 months
Team deployed
4 platform engineers + 2 GRC
Stack
Drata (kept as reporting surface)
  1. Clean Pre-IPO diligence on tenant isolation
  2. 100% SOC 2 Type II evidence incorporated by auditor
  3. 0 Engineer pages 12 months of customer-auditor questions

The situation

A near-miss cross-tenant query during dual-region migration surfaced during the pre-IPO security workstream. The Drata deployment was reporting clean, but the underwriter's diligence team was asking for evidence the boundary actually held continuously, not just at audit week.

What we did

  1. 01Tenant-boundary instrumentation at all four layers — query, cache, queue, storage — with one audit row per crossing attempt.
  2. 02Per-tenant SOC 2 evidence drawer exportable to each customer's auditor on request — without engineering pages.
  3. 03Subprocessor disclosure register that maps every third-party touch to a tenant scope.
  4. 04Drata kept as the reporting surface; our team operated the evidence pipeline behind it.
06 · Architecture

A six-layer multi-tenant defense stack — verdict + tenant-evidence on every event.

Every relevant event is evaluated by six cooperating layers in under 200ms.

  1. L1

    Identity

    Decide who is on the other end — and which tenant they belong to.

    • SSO and federated authentication for customer users
    • JWT / session-token verification with tenant-binding enforcement
    • Privileged-role detection and admin-action anomaly alerts
  2. L2

    Behavioral monitoring

    Decide whether the API call pattern is real, in real time.

    • Per-tenant baseline — same customer, different signal
    • Schema-enumeration and introspection-probe detection
    • Customer-facing ATO on every authenticated session
  3. L3

    API protection

    Stop the abuse at the door of the customer-facing API.

    • Tenant-aware rate limiting and quota enforcement
    • Cross-tenant query interception at the data-access layer
    • Schema abuse detection — enumeration, GraphQL introspection, business-logic abuse
  4. L4

    Threat intelligence

    Decide whether the source is already known to be hostile.

    • Reputation enrichment on every requesting IP and API key
    • Subprocessor compromise signals and CVE feeds for your dependencies
    • Cross-tenant signal sharing
  5. L5

    Control plane

    Your platform team's cockpit. Where our hours and your per-event fees are reconciled each month.

    • Multi-tenant administration with per-tenant isolation
    • Real-time dashboards — blocks, alerts, customer health
    • Per-tenant + per-API-call billing
  6. L6

    Tenant compliance reporting

    Produce the evidence package your customer's auditor will accept.

    • Per-tenant SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence drawer
    • Subprocessor disclosure register
    • Customer-auditor-ready exports — no audit-week scramble
A suspicious API call, end to end · under 200ms
  1. 01Auth + tenant
  2. 02Call pattern
  3. 03Schema check
  4. 04Source reputation
  5. 05Risk score
  6. 06Verdict
  7. 07Allow · throttle · block
08 · Engage

Engage Mandala IT across the defense surface of multi-tenant SaaS.

Engagement terms

Issuer
Mandala IT (IT services consultancy)
Engagement model
Project · Managed · Retainer · Staff-aug
Minimum engagement
From USD 10,000 per engagement
Sector
SaaS · multi-tenant · platform
Pricing model
Per-tenant retainer + project add-ons
Status
Open
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09 · FAQ

Quick answers.

How does Mandala IT plug into our existing API gateway?

In-line sidecar at the gateway or a verdict webhook for async paths. Compatible with Kong, Tyk, AWS API Gateway, custom Envoy / Nginx.

Do you have SaaS reference clients?

Reference clients in this vertical are arranged after the first scoping call under mutual NDA. Most of our SaaS clients are pre- or post-IPO and contractually cannot be named publicly — that goes both ways. Comparable-size reference calls are scheduled before SOW signature.

How does the per-tenant billing scale?

Tiered per-tenant pricing plus per-API-call usage. Negotiated caps for unusually large customer estates.

Which SaaS segment does Mandala IT target?

Series-B through pre-IPO B2B SaaS where multi-tenancy is material and dedicated platform-security is not yet scaled.

Do you guarantee outcomes?

We commit to measurable improvement against your baseline — quantified per engagement in the Statement of Work. SLA-backed commitments and clear remedies, not vague guarantees.

How fast can you start?

Scoping call within 2 business days. Signed Statement of Work typically within 7–14 days. Monitoring live within 30 days of SOW for standard engagements; emergency incident-response retainer can be activated within 24 hours.

Do you sub-contract any of the work?

We deliver primarily with directly-employed analysts and engineers. Where a vertical needs specialist coverage (forensics, firmware analysis, jurisdiction-specific filings), named partners are disclosed in the SOW before signature — never silently white-labelled.

What if we already use Drata / Vanta / Secureframe / Hyperproof?

We integrate with your existing GRC tool rather than displace it. Our team tunes per-tenant evidence collection, runs the customer-auditor delivery workflow, and owns the subprocessor-disclosure ledger. The GRC tool reports the state; we maintain it.

Where does our data live? Can we keep it in-region?

Region-specific options — EU, UK, US, Israel, GCC — are scoped per engagement. BAA (US healthcare), DPA (EU), and ISO 27001-aligned controls are issued under the engagement contract. Production data and PII do not leave your designated region without written consent.

Can we see reference clients?

After the first scoping call, under mutual NDA. Most of our clients are regulated and contractually cannot be named publicly. Reference calls with comparable-size buyers in your vertical are arranged before SOW signature.