The SECTET framework supports business partners during the development and distributed management of decentralized peer-to-peer scenarios. Primarily developed for the realization of decentralized, security critical collaboration across domain boundaries — so-called inter-organizational workflows, it realizes a domain architecture aiming at the correct technical implementation of domain-level security requirements. It consists of three core components:

1. Security Modeling. The modeling component supports the collaborative specification
   of a scenario at the abstract level in a platform independent context. The component
   implements an intuitive domain specific language, which is rendered in a visual
   language based on UML2 for various modeling tools. The modeling occurs at a level of
   abstraction appropriate to bridge the gap between domain experts on one side and engineers
   on the other side, roles chiefly involved in two different phases of the engineering
   process — the requirements engineering and the design phase respectively.
2. Code Generation & Model Transformation. Model information is translated
   it into platform independent models (PIM) based on security patterns and protocols
   enforcing security requirements. The PIMs are refined into platform specific models of
   various granularity until they can be mapped into configuration code for the components
   of the target architecture.
3. Web services Based Reference Architecture. The architecure specifies a Web
   services based target runtime environment for local executable workflows and back-end
   services at the partner node. The workflow and security components implement a set of
   workflow and security technologies based on XML- and Web services technology. The architectural blueprint of the Reference Archtiecure is based on the idea of security services transposing the model of Software as a Service to the security domain and thereby realizes Security.