https://innovix.pl/en/insights/ Innovix Insights: practical articles on penetration testing, DORA, software development and AI for IT, security and compliance teams, with sources cited. en-GB Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://innovix.pl/en/insights/how-to-compare-penetration-testing-proposals/ https://innovix.pl/en/insights/how-to-compare-penetration-testing-proposals/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Penetration testing Penetration testing proposals can only be compared when they describe the same scope: the same targets, user roles, approach, methodology, report and retest. Send every provider the same request for proposal based on a checklist, ask them to respond in the same structure, and then assess the scope, the report and the rules of engagement - leaving price until last. https://innovix.pl/en/insights/how-to-choose-a-software-development-company/ https://innovix.pl/en/insights/how-to-choose-a-software-development-company/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Software How do you choose a software development company? Start with a request for proposal (RFP) that sets out the goal, scope, integrations, data, security requirements and the format you expect the response in - only then can the proposals be compared. Then assess how each vendor works, how security is built into its development lifecycle, who will own the code and how maintenance is handled, and compare prices last, once the scope has been aligned. https://innovix.pl/en/insights/penetration-testing-vs-tlpt/ https://innovix.pl/en/insights/penetration-testing-vs-tlpt/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT DORA Penetration testing vs TLPT: these are two levels of testing under DORA. Penetration tests are one of the tests in the digital operational resilience testing programme that every financial entity other than a microenterprise runs - systems supporting critical or important functions are tested at least once a year. TLPT, or threat-led penetration testing, is a red team test lasting many weeks on live production systems, carried out at least every three years and only by entities identified by the supervisory authority - in Poland, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF). https://innovix.pl/en/insights/private-llm-or-cloud-api/ https://innovix.pl/en/insights/private-llm-or-cloud-api/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI in business A self-hosted LLM - a language model running in your company's own infrastructure or private cloud - pays off when you process confidential data, have a large and predictable volume of queries, or need a model adapted to specialist language. A provider's model accessed through an API wins at the start: it needs no hardware, gives you access to the largest models and is billed for actual use. “Self-hosted” does not mean trained from scratch - in a business setting it usually means a ready-made open-weight model connected to the company's documents.