Research

Main Areas of Research in SBA II

Secure Business Austria II (SBA II) aims to become the premiere research center for IT security in Austria. SBA II brings together the best national academic institutions and corporations and cooperates with leading universities and research institutions in our field of expertise all over the world. Our research addresses large corporations as well as small and medium-sized enterprises and private individuals.
Our main goal is to perform basic research in IT security with a clear heading towards a practical usage by our industrial partners or general use. We incorporate our partners’ own R&D efforts and bring in our basic research perspectives . SBA II has four main areas of research: (1) Governance, Risk and Compliance (2) Data Security and Privacy, (3) Secure Coding and Code Analysis and (4) Hardware and Network Security. Most of our projects in these four areas are highly interdependent and contain elements from these areas.

Our research program is designed as an integral approach to cover all important layers of security in information technology: the organizational layer (including the human factor), the business process layer, the logical layer, and the network and infrastructure layer. In brief, our overall goal is to expand the successful work of the center in crucial fields of research and to develop more secure and more robust IT systems in the foreseeable future. We strive to establish security as an enabling factor in Austria’s IT-driven businesses and try to move away from a reaction-driven arms race in which defenders constantly lag one step behind. The rationale for our research is (1) to protect information assets and (2) to enable new services.