Cybersecurity Experts in Austria
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Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Artellico / Own Company for AI Governance and Data Products
- Consulting and interim management at the intersection of IT operations and regulation
- Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Teaching assignments in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at Hochschule Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
- Expert presentations in business and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and Zero-Knowledge Encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- Connection to bank account systems via SEPA direct debit mandates and message formats according to ISO 20022 (pain.008, camt.053)
- MLOps and AIOps in ongoing operations
- Own applications under own brand: shared code base, separate delivery for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe-coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Publications on EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI Governance / Compliance: Data Quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act Readiness, Risk Classification, AI Ethics
Daniel S.
Last position:
AI Strategy & Use-Case Development at Umwelt Service Salzburg
- AI strategy concept and implementation roadmap for an energy consulting company.
- Use-case matrix with nine application scenarios (including funding research, chatbot, initial AI consulting, topic radar), implemented as reusable Claude Code skills.
- AI strategy, use-case analysis / Claude Code Skills / n8n.
Jerry B.
Last position:
Owner at DIGIPM Consulting e.U.
From 02/2023 to 05/2024: IT interim manager within an international construction chemicals group headquartered in Germany as Global TSA Manager in a carve-out project responsible for the IT workstream.
End-to-end management of an international IT carve-out and TSA program, including transition of five service providers, governance and operating structures, service continuity, provider performance, SLA/KPI and cost management, SIAM and supplier management, security services, operational readiness, and transition into stable operations.
From 06/2024: IT consulting in project management and IT service management areas, providing PM/PMO coaching and support.
John A.
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Lucas G.
Last position:
Self-Employed Management Consultant at nospia e.U.
Provided expert consultancy services to a range of clients, supporting their compliance and security objectives across multiple domains. Key projects and responsibilities included:
- Lead consultant for successful ISO 27001 certification projects, including readiness assessments and audit support
- Conducted comprehensive risk reviews and gap analyses to identify and remediate compliance and security vulnerabilities
- Developed, and improved internal and external policies, guidelines, and procedures related to information security and data protection
- Delivered tailored training sessions to employees on security best practices and data protection obligations
- Negotiated and drafted compliance-related contractual clauses, including DPAs and security-related provisions.
- Designed consent management strategies and ensured effective technical implementation of cookie banners in compliance with regulatory requirements
Robert K.
Last position:
Enterprise Architecture and Overall Transition Lead — UK National Lottery, 4th Licence at Scientific Games International GmbH
Owned the end-to-end architecture and the transition for the fourth licence period of the UK National Lottery: a complete technology stack replacement delivered against a hard regulatory deadline. Produced the end-to-end high-level architecture that served as the delivery baseline for the replacement of all major IT service components including infrastructure
Target architecture across two geo-redundant UK data centres: multiple VMware ESX clusters, OpenShift, MS SQL Server clusters, Oracle Exadata, integrated with AWS-hosted components and a retailer WAN over VSAT, DSL and LTE
Business continuity concept and geo-redundant high availability design
Review and approval authority over all low-level designs, application and infrastructure: network security, Oracle RAC, VMware, OpenShift, SQL clustering, geo-redundancy
Designed and implemented full hardware and network separation between test environments and staging/production
SME for third-party security audits against CIS benchmarks and NIST standards: preparation, execution, findings analysis, remediation prioritisation
Delivered software deployment to 45,000 retail terminals with minimal downtime, plus data migration from the incumbent end-to-end landscape to the new architecture
Transitioned 45,000 POS terminals and 19 million online players on time with no critical incidents
Owned the integrated transition plan for the full replacement of the lottery technology stack: work packages, milestones, dependencies and critical path across parallel technical sub-projects
Central organisational interface between internal IT leads, technical workstream leads, multiple external vendors and client executive stakeholders
Planned and led migration and cutover of live, regulated national infrastructure, including 80+ bare metal servers running VMware ESX, Microsoft VMs across several Active Directory domains, Linux VMs, OpenShift on Linux, 2 SANs, 2 Oracle Exadata systems, AWS components and a retailer WAN
Ran 4 full cutover dress rehearsals ahead of the 2 major go-live releases
Governed all changes through the ITIL change process and CAB; ran risk, issue and escalation management with regular status reporting to the Program Director and client's CTO
Onboarded the internal cyber security team and acted as architecture SME in pre-deployment security audits for client and internal security teams, including prioritisation and remediation of findings
Joined the programme as Enterprise Architecture Lead from May to September 2022, gaining detailed knowledge of the target infrastructure before taking overall delivery responsibility; after go-live, supported the delivery teams through the warranty phase
Gabriele B.
Last position:
Founder and Managing Director at PaiperOne GmbH
- Main tasks and responsibilities: development, acquisition, sales, consulting, and controlling
- Area of work or industry: Software as a Service in AI compliance and consulting
Selection of client projects:
- Creation and operation of an AI governance platform, including training content on the use of AI in companies
- Design, setup, and operation of the ISO 42001 management system at PaiperOne with certification by TÜV
- Auditor according to ISO 17024 at Austrian Standards for the "AI Manager"
- AI training for staff of two Austrian publishing groups
- AI training for the management level at the State of Lower Austria
- AI strategy workshop for a municipality in Styria and a municipality in Salzburg
- AI workshops for the House of Digitalization in Tulln
- AI training for municipalities at KDZ
- Delivery of training on "Certified AI Compliance Officer" at the Academy for Internal Audit
- Organizational consulting on AI governance at ÖGK
- Project support for the "homepage chatbot" at öbv
- Certification exams at Austrian Standards
Christian T.
Last position:
Project Management / Program Management at Energy company, AT
- NIS2/IT-OT infrastructure project for network and firewall: PoC, roll-out, and blueprint
- Coordination of IT, OT/operations, information security, business units, and external suppliers
- Risk and escalation management
- Direct evidence of security, multi-vendor delivery, and operational context.
Herbert F.
Last position:
Pentest Center of Excellence - Strategy & Implementation at Cybersecurity & IT Risk Managed Services
- Built board/management business-case scenarios; assessed services, vendors, contracts and financials; defined target operating model, service catalogue, organization, processes and tooling.
- Implemented near-shore CoE in Romania and supported rollout to an international insurance group
Thomas S.
Last position:
Cloud Native Trainer and Architect / Owner at TSC Labs e.U.
Focus:
- Developing and providing Cloud Native Courses
- Architecture Consulting for Platform Engineering and Cloud Native
- Supporting Teams and People on their Cloud Native Journey
Delivered Trainings:
- Kubernetes Fundamentals - From Pods to Ingresses; 2 Days
- Platform Engineering on GKE - Operators, GitOps, Gateway API, Policy Management, Storage; 2 Days
- Platform Engineering on AKS - GitOps, External Secrets, Policy Management, Ingress/Gateway API and Storage; 4 Days
Currently In Progress:
- Platform Engineering Basic / Advanced on OpenShift - OpenShift/Kubernetes Basics, GitOps, External DNS, External Secrets; Multi-Step Program with 2 Course Blocks (3 and 2 Days) and self-paced projects
Zoran J.
Last position:
Technical Writer – Implementation of the BNPP IT PROD SEC Service Catalog at BNP Paribas Germany
Design, authorship and finalization of the IT PROD SEC service catalog with eight standardized security services (S-ID001–S-ID008).
Development of consistent service components & deliverables, RACI assignments and SLA and KPI definitions for each service.
Integration of BaFin document requirements under DORA into the service descriptions.
Coordination with IT, compliance, risk and operations teams to validate all service descriptions.
Specifically for governance & monitoring: definition of governance cadence, evidence delivery processes, audit support and definition of measurable KPIs and measurement methods.
Ensuring that all services are standardized, measurable and documented in an audit-proof manner.
Result: Approved service catalog with eight services as a binding basis for delivery, governance and audits; transparent SLAs/KPIs for each service and DORA/BAIT/MaRisk-compliant documentation with clear responsibilities and evidence trails.
Technologies and tools: Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Office 365.
Alexander V.
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Christian P.
Last position:
Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg
- Project and test management for the accounting migration
- Coordination of resources
- Planning, creation and alignment of scenarios with functional experts and IT product owners
- Responsibility for accounting KPIs of the migration cockpit
- System environment: Jira, XRay, Confluence
Lukas K.
Last position:
Founder and Owner at NextSecure Advisory
External CISO, auditor and consultant. I support companies with NIS2 / NISG 2026, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301. From the applicability assessment and management system setup to ongoing support. CISSP, CISM, CCSP, ISO/IEC 27001 Manager & Auditor. Owner of NextSecure Advisory.
Benjamin A.
Last position:
Research Engineer at AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology
- Developed Taranis AI, an advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool, leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize information gathering and situational analysis.
- Created cybersecurity trainings and a cyber range to provide hands-on learning experiences for SOC teams and IT management.
- Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, and Ansible, improving the scalability and performance of the infrastructure and led the migration from an on-site only infrastructure to the hybrid cloud environment.
- Some of my current work can be found on GitHub.
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Statistics of experts using Cybersecurity
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
3.4 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Strategy
Bachelor's degree or higher
81%
Master's degree or higher
63%
Doctorate
15%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 9 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Austria using Cybersecurity
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 9 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Cybersecurity experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (90%)
- Professional Services (52%)
- Manufacturing (48%)
- Banking and Finance (41%)
- Government and Administration (41%)
- Education (38%)
- Healthcare (34%)
- Telecommunication (34%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Cybersecurity Covers
Cybersecurity protects applications, networks, devices, identities and data from unauthorized access, disruption and misuse. It combines prevention, detection, response and recovery across the full technology environment. Information security and infosec are common terms for related work, while cybersecurity often emphasizes connected systems and active threats.
Systems and Use Cases
Companies use cybersecurity to reduce exposure in cloud services, enterprise networks, software delivery and operational environments. Typical assignments include:
- Designing security architectures for cloud and hybrid infrastructure
- Testing web applications, APIs, identities and network boundaries
- Monitoring events and coordinating incident response
- Protecting sensitive data through access controls and encryption
- Preparing recovery plans and security documentation
Ecosystem and Tooling
Cybersecurity work spans identity and access management, endpoint protection, security information and event management, vulnerability scanners and cloud-native controls. Specialists may work with Microsoft security products, AWS or Azure security services, SIEM tools, firewalls, container security and DevSecOps pipelines. Strong assignments also connect technical controls with risk management and secure software practices.
When Companies Need Specialists
Freelance expertise is useful when an internal team needs an independent assessment, a rapid response or focused delivery capacity. Common signals include:
- A new cloud migration or major infrastructure change
- Repeated alerts without a clear response process
- A penetration test, audit or remediation programme
- New privacy, customer or supply-chain security requirements
In Austria, specialists may support local teams on site or work remotely across German- and English-speaking environments.
Skills That Matter
Effective professionals combine technical depth with clear communication. They can examine architecture, interpret logs, validate vulnerabilities and explain business risk without overstating it. Depending on the assignment, useful adjacent skills include scripting, Linux, networking, cloud platforms, secure coding, threat modelling, digital forensics and compliance documentation.
Choosing the Right Professional
Match the specialist to the risk and deliverable, not only to a tool name. Ask for comparable work involving the relevant cloud, application stack, regulatory setting or incident type. A strong professional defines scope before testing, records evidence carefully, separates confirmed findings from assumptions and leaves the team with practical remediation steps. For remote work, confirm access procedures, communication habits and the handling of sensitive material before the engagement begins.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Cybersecurity? Start with the answers below.
Companies use cybersecurity to protect systems, applications, identities and data from unauthorized access, disruption and fraud. A freelance specialist can assess exposure, improve controls, monitor threats or coordinate incident response.
Cybersecurity usually focuses on protecting connected systems, networks, applications and devices against active digital threats. Information security, often shortened to infosec, is broader and also covers the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information in physical and organizational settings.
A strong cybersecurity specialist may also understand cloud platforms, networking, Linux, scripting, identity management and secure software delivery. Penetration testing, threat modelling, digital forensics and compliance knowledge can be important depending on the assignment.
The right level depends on the risk, scope and access involved. A focused configuration review may need a different profile from a breach investigation, security architecture redesign or enterprise-wide remediation programme. Define the deliverables and decision authority before selecting a specialist.
Yes, many cybersecurity activities can be performed remotely, including architecture reviews, vulnerability analysis, monitoring design and documentation. On-site work may still help with sensitive environments, physical controls or incident response. Agree on secure access, data handling and whether German or English is required.
Bring in a cybersecurity specialist when an internal team lacks focused capacity, independent assurance or incident expertise. Common triggers include a cloud migration, an audit, repeated security alerts, a penetration test or a suspected compromise.
Look for a clear scope, evidence-based findings and remediation advice that reflects business impact. A capable cybersecurity professional explains assumptions, distinguishes exploitable weaknesses from low-risk observations and verifies that agreed fixes address the underlying cause.
Before beginning cybersecurity work, clarify authorization, systems in scope, testing limits, emergency contacts and reporting expectations. Also confirm how credentials, logs and findings will be stored, who can receive them and how the engagement will end securely.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Cybersecurity in their recent projects is 122 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 973 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Cybersecurity in their recent projects, 81% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 63% hold at least a Master's degree, and 15% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Cybersecurity in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Cybersecurity in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Cybersecurity in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Professional Services (52%), and Manufacturing (48%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Cybersecurity in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Project Management (79%), and Operations (66%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Cybersecurity
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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