Spartacus Insights is a cybersecurity platform owned and developed by Digital Marmalade, an established UK software development company founded in 1997. For more than 25 years, Digital Marmalade has designed, built and supported reliable, scalable digital platforms for organisations that need carefully engineered software. Over the last decade, our work has increasingly focused on cybersecurity, helping clients respond to growing expectations around assurance, risk, reporting and improvement.
Spartacus Insights was created through that real-world client work. We saw a clear gap in the market: cybersecurity assessments were becoming more important, but many organisations were still relying on spreadsheets, static documents, disconnected information and manual reporting. This made assessments harder to scale, harder to defend and harder to translate into meaningful action.
The platform began with recognised cybersecurity frameworks, giving organisations and consultancies a more consistent and governed way to understand maturity, identify gaps and communicate priorities. But as client needs evolved, so did Spartacus Insights. Cybersecurity leaders were no longer asking only, “How mature are we against a framework?” They also wanted to understand cyber risk in financial terms, assess supplier risk more efficiently and consistently, deliver internal methodologies at scale, support regulated readiness, interpret capability in threat terms and connect investment in controls to the risks that mattered most.
That progression shaped Spartacus Insights into the platform it is today: a governed cybersecurity decision platform that has evolved from recognised framework assessments into broader capabilities including Quantitative Risk, Third-Party Risk Management, Custom Frameworks, Controls & Investment and Threats & Protection, alongside regulated readiness and AI assurance through Custom Frameworks.
In 2021, Spartacus Insights was productised as a secure multi-tenant platform, enabling multiple organisations and delivery teams to operate independently within a governed tenant environment.
Spartacus Insights continues to evolve as a Digital Marmalade product, shaped by client need and grounded in practical cybersecurity delivery experience. The principle remains the same as when the platform was first created: helping organisations and consultancies move from fragmented assessment activity to clearer insight, stronger assurance and more defensible action.