Sectra completed its first consulting project in the late 1970s. Today, the company's products are used by customers in 50 countries and the Sectra brand stands for world-leading products that make healthcare more efficient and protect valuable information.

Sectra's history dates back to 1978, when a group of researchers at the Linköping Institute of Technology were assigned the task of creating a security solution for banks. Professor Ingemar Ingemarsson started Sectra (SECure TRAnsmission) together with his three doctoral students, Viiveke Fåk, Rolf Blom and Robert Forchheimer, to take on the assignment.

"We were working as researchers in information theory and, under the company's name, we did consulting work in data security and image coding," says Professor Ingemarsson.

Linköping University and the Linköping Institute of Technology have been important to Sectra's development. These institutions, from which a number of the company's most prominent employees were recruited, are a valuable source of knowledge.