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Black Shard
Black Shard

Automotive and trades

Workshop software that keeps every workshop separate.

We build multi-tenant workshop platforms and secure the systems a motor group runs on.

Automotive and trades

The obligations in play.

A motor group runs jobs, bookings, quotes, parts and payments across many workshops at once. Each workshop needs its own records, and none should be able to read another’s, so separation has to hold in the database and not only in the screens.

  • Privacy Act 1988 and the APPs

    Customer, vehicle and payment records are personal information under the APPs, with the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme behind them.

  • Motor vehicle repair information sharing

    Since 1 July 2022 repairers can buy the service and repair information car makers hold, and its safety and security information is released only to checked individuals.

  • Payment card security

    Point of sale takes card payments, and the PCI DSS sets the controls the card schemes expect around them.

  • Repairer licensing

    New South Wales and Western Australia license motor vehicle repair businesses, with conditions on how they operate.

Threat picture

What the sector is facing.

What we do

What you carry, and what we do about it.

  • Every workshop in a group needs its own data, and none should see another’s.

    We build multi-tenant software that keeps each workshop’s data apart in the database itself, so separation holds in every query.

    Software engineering
  • Point of sale and invoicing put card payments and customer records in one system.

    We penetration-test the platform and the network around it, and hand back a ranked fix list with a re-test.

    Penetration testing
  • Staff sign in from workshop floors and front counters, often on shared devices.

    We review and harden the Microsoft 365 tenant: Conditional Access, MFA coverage, privileged roles and app consent.

    Microsoft 365 and Azure security review
  • Releases have to land without stopping the workshops that run on them.

    Delivery pipelines run the tests and security checks before anything deploys, with staging, production and rollback.

    Cloud and AI infrastructure

Services

The services that apply.

Industries

Other sectors we work in.

  • Recruitment

    Candidate intake, screening and placement workflows, built for an agency.

  • Health

    Clinical software and the security around it, with the Privacy Act and the APPs built in.

  • Legal

    Practice and compliance systems for law firms, with trust accounting and QLS obligations in view.

Workshop software built to keep each workshop separate.