SECTARA

SECTARA is a premier cloud-based Security Risk Management platform designed for advanced practitioners and large-scale organisations. It automates complex risk assessments across diverse industries from critical infrastructure to mining and finance ensuring compliance with global standards like ISO 31000 and the PSPF framework.

Client Location

Australia

Model

Project Based

Link

https://sectara.com/

Project Detail

What Was The Brief?

SECTARA required a dedicated engineering partner to build and scale a highly secure, multi-tenant SaaS application. The brief was to transform a manual, spreadsheet-based methodology into an intuitive, automated digital tool that could handle sophisticated risk-scoring logic, real-time analytics, and enterprise-grade data encryption for sensitive security intelligence.

Back-End

DevOps

Front-End

Project Manager

Quality Assurance

How Did We Fix It

Identifying the Key Challenges

The Hurdles

Manual Process Inefficiency:
Traditional security assessments relied on fragmented MS Office files, which were plagued by formatting issues, lack of version control, and a high risk of "human error" in complex risk-scoring calculations.
Strict Security & Encryption Needs:
Handling national-level security data required a "sero-Trust" architecture. Developers and admins needed to be restricted from viewing sensitive client data, necessitating advanced encryption and granular user permissioning.
Complex Methodological Logic:
To be credible with practitioners, the platform had to perfectly map to leading global standards (ISO 31000). Automating these non-linear workflows without confusing the user required a deep fusion of UI/UX and technical logic.
Scalability & Global Compliance:
The system needed to remain lightweight and fast while being capable of supporting global enterprise clients with thousands of concurrent assessments and high-volume data exports (PDF/Word/Excel).

The Solutions

Full-Stack SaaS Engineering:
SoftwareSeni architected the platform from the ground up, utilising a modern, secure stack to handle real-time data processing and a "Software-as-a-Service" model that allows SECTARA to scale infinitely as their user base grows.
Advanced Encryption & Data Privacy:
The team implemented a robust security framework where sensitive data is restricted even from backend administrators. This "privacy-first" approach ensures that SECTARA meets the stringent audit requirements of government and corporate security teams.
Automated Risk Engines:
We developed a custom calculation engine that automates asset criticality, threat assessment, and risk-control effectiveness. This allows users to generate complex, standards-compliant risk registers in a fraction of the time previously required.
Interactive Analytics Dashboards:
SoftwareSeni built a sophisticated data-visualisation layer, transforming raw risk data into intuitive, high-engagement dashboards. This enables SECTARA’s clients to present complex security debriefs to stakeholders with visual clarity and technical authority.

Technology Stack

Tools That Powered This Project

WordPress

HTML5

CSS3

MySQL

JQuery

Stripe

SendGrid

Yii

JavaScript

What Our Client Said

“We have been working with SoftwareSeni for several years now, and in hindsight (and despite the stresses of us building and launching a SaaS platform) the experience has been calm, consistent and one where no problem has been too complex to solve. SoftwareSeni has been pivotal in planning, designing and building our security risk management platform, in a process that was compounded by faulty code from previous developers. I cannot speak highly enough of the broader team that we've dealt with, which has involved specialists in all areas of development.”

Konrad Buczynki

Managing Director