Dasera

Dasera was a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform that automated security and governance controls for data across both cloud and on-premises environments. It focused on end-to-end data lifecycle security by discovering sensitive data, monitoring usage, and preventing incidents before they could occur. Dasera gave organizations comprehensive visibility and control over their data, simplifying compliance, risk detection, and governance. In October 2024, Dasera was acquired by Netskope to integrate its DSPM capabilities into the Netskope One platform, strengthening Netskope’s data security offerings.

Technologies

React
TypeScript
Material-UI (component library, theming, responsive design)
AmCharts (interactive charts, dashboards, and analytics)
REST APIs integration
role-based UI flows

Features

Data Discovery & Classification: Automated detection of sensitive information across multiple data sources.
Risk Detection: Identified insider threats, policy violations, and risky behaviors through continuous monitoring.
Compliance Management: Provided tools for GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA alignment, including lineage and audit trails.
Data-in-Use Monitoring: Tracked and analyzed live query logs to show how data was being accessed and used.
Contextual Data Understanding: Integrated metadata from users, infrastructure, and data attributes to contextualize risks.
No-Code Policy Framework: Allowed security teams to implement governance rules and automate remediation without coding.

Development

Built a responsive, enterprise-grade frontend in React with Material-UI, ensuring consistent theming, accessibility, and usability.
Designed interactive dashboards with AmCharts, enabling security teams to visualize risks, compliance status, and data activity trends.
Integrated frontend components with backend APIs, ensuring smooth rendering of real-time security insights.
Created modular, reusable components (tables, cards, charts, forms) to accelerate development and maintain a consistent UI.
Implemented role-based views so that security engineers, compliance officers, and executives could access tailored insights.
Focused on performance optimization to handle large datasets in charts and tables without compromising user experience.

Challenges

Complex Data Visualization: Representing sensitive data flows, compliance metrics, and risk scores in a way that was both accurate and intuitive required careful charting design and frontend optimization.
Scalability: Building dashboards that could render large volumes of log data in real time without performance degradation.
Balancing Technical Depth and UX: Presenting advanced security insights in a way that both technical users and executives could easily understand.
Dynamic Theming: Maintaining a consistent design system across rapidly evolving features using Material-UI’s theming and customization.
API Integration: Coordinating with backend teams to align on API structures, ensuring that frontend components could dynamically render updated security data.

Conclusion

Dasera highlighted my ability to deliver enterprise-grade frontend applications in the security domain. By leveraging React, Material-UI, and AmCharts, I built scalable, reusable, and intuitive components that powered dashboards for compliance, risk detection, and data monitoring. The project taught me how to translate complex datasets into actionable visual insights and how to balance usability with depth in a platform used by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Dasera’s acquisition by Netskope in October 2024 validates the impact and value of the platform, and I’m proud that my frontend work contributed to a product that became part of a global leader in cloud security.