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"Questions welcome." This short sentence changes the atmosphere in a technical interview. Many candidates assume they have to solve a task immediately and without asking anything. In real working life, it is exactly the other way round: good developers, administrators and architects ask questions…

Every year, public authorities award numerous IT contracts: software development, operations, consulting, staffing and infrastructure. For many small and medium-sized IT companies, these contracts would be a good professional fit. Yet they rarely take part. The reasons are well known: high effort…

Companies that take part in public IT tenders often focus on the bid itself: price, solution, team. But before a bid is evaluated at all, the contracting authority examines a different question: is this company suitable to perform the contract? The suitability check is a hurdle at which many bids…

According to Microsoft's schedule, updates for Windows 11 version 23H2 in the Enterprise and Education editions ended on 10 November 2026. The November security update was the last monthly update for these editions. Home and Pro editions had already reached the end of servicing in November…

On 10 November 2026, Microsoft ends support for .NET 8 and .NET 9. From that date, neither version will receive security updates or bug fixes. For many companies, this affects not only individual web applications but also internal tools, interfaces, background services, and line-of-business…

"We are looking for someone in cybersecurity." We hear this sentence in initial conversations all the time. It sounds clear, but it rarely is. The term cybersecurity covers very different tasks, ways of working and profiles. A company looking for someone for its Security Operations Center needs a…

Many companies breathed a sigh of relief this summer: the strict obligations for high-risk AI apply later than planned. The work behind them does not get smaller because a deadline moved.

The legal position changed in 2026, and it changed bindingly. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 – the "Digital…

When an IT position stays open for a long time, the first question is usually: where do we finally find the right person? There is a better first question.

It is: what capacity do we actually need – how fast, for how long and for what exactly? An open role is only a symptom. It may mean a role is…

A two-million-euro tender sounds like a contract for large providers. It often consists of several parts – and one of them may fit a team of twelve rather well.

Many smaller IT companies rule out the public sector before reading a single tender document: too large, too formal, hopeless without a…

Austria's NISG 2026 takes effect on 1 October 2026. For roughly 4,000 organisations, cybersecurity becomes a legal obligation – and the law does not stop at your own IT.

Most security concepts end where the company network ends. That no longer reflects how IT is run: an external project team…

A bad hire doesn't cost “one salary.” It costs a multiple of it – and most of that never appears on an invoice.

The reflex with an open role is understandable: collect as many applications as possible to have a choice. But more CVs don't mean more certainty. They mean more effort in screening –…

“Nearshoring? That's just cheaper – and quality suffers in the end.” Few topics in IT staffing are as persistent. And few are as misunderstood.

When a key role stays vacant for 7.7 months on average, the real question isn't “cheaper or pricier,” it's “filled or not filled.” Nearshoring is first…