MangoApps Has Achieved HITRUST Recertification through 2026

ISSAQUAH, Wash. – August 27, 2024 – MangoApps, a leading provider of unified employee experience solutions, is proud to announce its successful recertification under the HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status. This recertification demonstrates MangoApps' ongoing commitment to maintaining the highest standards of security and privacy for its customers, particularly those in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government — and MangoApps remains the only employee experience platform that is HITRUST-certified.

The HITRUST Certification is recognized as a benchmark for compliance, risk management, and data protection that is used by organizations across multiple industries. By achieving recertification, MangoApps continues to prove that its platform adheres to the most stringent security controls and industry standards, ensuring that customers' sensitive data remains protected.

Sustaining Excellence in Security Compliance

MangoApps first achieved HITRUST Certification in 2022, and this recertification underscores the company's unwavering dedication to upholding rigorous security protocols. The HITRUST r2 Certification involves an extensive evaluation of an organization's information security management, including assessments of its policies, procedures, and overall security posture.

"Our recertification with HITRUST is a testament to our continuous efforts in prioritizing data security and regulatory compliance," said Vishwa Malhotra, CTO and co-founder of MangoApps. "The digital landscape is constantly evolving. With many customers in sensitive and highly regulated industries, they must have confidence that MangoApps will always do everything it can to protect the company and its employees. We have this achievement reflects to them our commitment in protecting their data with the highest level of integrity and security."

Supporting Customer Confidence

In an environment where data breaches and cyber threats are increasingly prevalent, MangoApps' HITRUST recertification provides customers with the assurance that their data and operations will remain secure in MangoApps. This milestone maintains MangoApps leadership in providing secure, reliable solutions that empower organizations to manage their employee experience with peace of mind. By maintaining its HITRUST certification, MangoApps can continue to provide:

• Comprehensive Data Protection: Recertification ensures that the MangoApps platform maintains stringent controls over data access, management, and protection, that meet the industry's highest security requirements.
• Ongoing Compliance Assurance: The recertification process reaffirms MangoApps' dedication to adhering to regulatory frameworks and industry standards, helping customers meet their own compliance obligations.
• Enhanced Trust and Reliability: With this recertification, customers can continue to trust MangoApps as a reliable partner in safeguarding their sensitive information and employee data.

The new HITRUST Certification will remain active through 2026, at which point MangoApps will go through an additional recertification process to maintain compliance. More information about MangoApps' commitment to security, privacy, and compliance is available on the MangoApps website at: www.mangoapps.com/security-compliance.

What Does HITRUST r2 Certification Actually Cover?

HITRUST r2 certification is materially different from SOC 2 or ISO 27001 alone. The HITRUST r2 assessment evaluates an organization against 200+ security control requirements across 19 control categories — including access control, encryption, incident response, privacy, and risk management (source: HITRUST official certification framework documentation). This breadth means that when MangoApps achieves recertification, it is not simply checking a compliance box; it is demonstrating validated controls across the full spectrum of information security domains that regulated industries require.

For customers in healthcare, financial services, and government, this distinction matters at the procurement stage. Regulated industries require vendors to demonstrate third-party-validated security frameworks before procurement approval, making HITRUST a procurement differentiator, not just a compliance checkbox (source: HITRUST Alliance industry adoption documentation). In healthcare specifically, 83% of healthcare organizations require HITRUST certification from SaaS vendors as part of their vendor risk management process.

In practical terms, MangoApps' HITRUST status gives customers the audit evidence they need — documented controls, validated policies, and a certified security posture — to satisfy their own internal compliance and vendor risk teams without conducting independent assessments of the platform.

Which Industries Benefit Most from MangoApps' HITRUST Certification?

HITRUST certification is most consequential for organizations operating under strict regulatory oversight. Three verticals stand out:

• Healthcare: Hospitals, health systems, and payers must protect patient data under HIPAA and related frameworks. HITRUST r2 certification aligns directly with HIPAA security rule requirements, giving healthcare organizations a pre-validated path to vendor approval.
• Financial Services: Banks, credit unions, and insurance carriers face overlapping regulatory requirements from bodies such as the FFIEC and state regulators. MangoApps' financial services customers can point to HITRUST certification as evidence of third-party-validated controls when satisfying their own audit obligations.
• Government and Public Sector: Government agencies and their contractors increasingly require FedRAMP-aligned or HITRUST-certified vendors. HITRUST's control framework maps to NIST 800-53, making MangoApps a credible option for agencies evaluating compliant productivity apps and workforce management platforms.

MangoApps is the only unified employee experience platform — combining intranet, frontline app, and workforce management — to hold HITRUST r2 certification. Competitors such as Unily, Staffbase, and Beekeeper do not publicly claim equivalent certification (source: Competitor product pages — Unily, Staffbase, Beekeeper — no HITRUST claim found), making this a meaningful differentiator for procurement teams in regulated industries evaluating cloud based productivity applications for their workforce.

How Does HITRUST Compare to Other Security Certifications?

Organizations evaluating cloud based productivity apps frequently encounter multiple certification frameworks — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HITRUST among them. Each serves a different purpose:

• SOC 2 Type II validates that a vendor's controls were operating effectively over a defined period, but the control criteria are flexible and self-scoped by the vendor.
• ISO 27001 certifies that an organization has implemented an information security management system, but does not prescribe specific control requirements.
• HITRUST r2 is prescriptive: it mandates specific controls across 19 categories, maps to more than 40 authoritative sources (including HIPAA, NIST, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001), and requires third-party assessment by an approved HITRUST External Assessor. The result is a certification that regulated industries treat as a higher bar than SOC 2 or ISO 27001 alone (source: HITRUST official certification framework documentation).

For organizations selecting productivity apps or employee experience platforms, HITRUST r2 certification provides a level of assurance that general-purpose certifications do not replicate. MangoApps' recertification through 2026 means customers can rely on that assurance without waiting for the next audit cycle. For a broader view of how MangoApps is recognized by independent analysts, see the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces 2024 Vendor Assessment.

About MangoApps

At MangoApps, our mission is to create a world where all employees, whether they work at a desk or on the frontline, are engaged, efficient, and fulfilled. Our unified modern intranet and employee app platform redefines the work experience by providing consistency and rich engagement for employees no matter where they are. With a 15-year history, MangoApps is trusted by companies all over the world, from SMBs to enterprises. Rethink the employee experience at www.mangoapps.com.