Built by automotive cybersecurity engineers, for automotive cybersecurity teams.
We've shipped TARA on real vehicle programs. The workbench is what we wished we'd had — and now we sell it because everyone we know in the field is asking for it.
SecBerg started inside a Tier-1 supplier in 2023. The cybersecurity team was on its third vehicle program in two years and had hit the same wall every time: spreadsheets that disagreed with each other, attack trees that lived in someone's laptop, and review cycles that ate a quarter of every release window.
The team rebuilt the toolchain in the open — first as a private workbench for the program they were running, then as a stand-alone product after three other teams asked for a copy. The first paying customer was a German Tier-1 with five concurrent R155 type-approvals. They closed their first dossier on the workbench eleven days faster than the previous one.
TARA Workbench is now a focused product company headquartered in Berlin with engineering in Stuttgart. We hire automotive cybersecurity practitioners and treat the dashboard like a tool we still have to live in.
How we make decisions.
Audit beats opinion
Every artifact is snapshotted. Every change has an author. If we can't show our work, we don't ship it.
Density over decoration
The product is dense because the work is dense. We never trade information density for a marketing-prettier screenshot.
Tenant isolation, always
Your TARAs do not leave your tenant. There are no cross-tenant joins anywhere in the codebase, and we audit that constraint quarterly.
Standards, not aesthetics
Every screen ladders back to a clause in 21434 / R155 / R156. If a feature can't trace to a clause, we cut it.
Three engineers, one product.
Ten years building safety- and security-critical embedded systems for automotive Tier-1s. Wrote the first version of the workbench in eight weekends.
Former cybersecurity manager at a German OEM. Took two type-approvals through R155 and refused to do a third without a real tool.
Cybersecurity engineer turned product designer. Spent three years convincing automotive teams that good UI was not optional.
What we've done so far.
- Q3 2023
First internal workbench
Six-month build inside a Tier-1, used on one ADAS program.
- Q2 2024
Spun out as SecBerg
Three founders, seed round closed in Berlin. Moved engineering to Stuttgart for proximity to OEM customers.
- Q4 2024
First paying customer
German Tier-1 ran five concurrent R155 type-approvals on the workbench. Closed the first dossier 11 days faster.
- Q2 2025
ISO 21434 alignment audit
Independent audit of clause coverage and evidence packs. Zero corrective actions.
- Q1 2026
Twelve programs across four OEMs
67% reduction in TARA cycle time across pilot accounts. SOC 2 Type II audit period started.
Want to work with us?
We hire automotive cybersecurity practitioners. We sell to teams running real type-approvals. Pick the conversation.