Floragasse 7 – 5th floor, 1040 Vienna

SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
19.02.2026
SBA @ NDC Security
04.03.2026 - 05.03.2026
Kubernetes Attack and Defense Wizardry with Stormcenter
03.03.2026 - 06.03.2026

Recent News:

Daryna Oliynyk @ ESSAI

At the end of November, our colleague Daryna Oliynyk, a researcher at SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, was invited to speak at the European Symposium on Security and AI (ESSAI) in Rennes, France. She presented the joint paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", co-authored with Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber. ... Read More
Selfportrait of Daryna at the event

Congratulations! MLDM colleagues qualified for the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship Finale

Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... Read More
MLDM winner with certificates

SBA Security Meetup Becomes Official OWASP Vienna Chapter

We are pleased to announce that the SBA Security Meetup is now officially operating as the OWASP Vienna Chapter. While the name has evolved, our mission remains unchanged: strengthening the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experience within the information security community. What started as the SBA… Read More
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SBA @ ACSAC

Florian Holzbauer, researcher at SBA Research, and Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and the Research Group Security and Privacy at the University of Vienna, attended the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2025 in Hawaii, USA. ... Read More
CTF Certificate Ceremony