SBA-K1 – 2nd research period starts today

April 1, 2021

SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line. The first four years of our current COMET period (2017 – 2021) have been tremendously successful. We were able to… Read More

LSZ IT-Security Cyber Lounge moderated by Stefan Jakoubi

April 13, 2021

In the 17th episode of the LSZ webinar series on April 13, Stefan Jakoubi talked with Jörg Schauff (CrowdStrike’s Threat Intel expert) about the “CrowdStrike Global Threat Report” as well as Walter Feichtinger (President of the Center for Strategic Analysis CSA) gave interesting insights on the topic… Read More

IWCT 2021 – Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos @ 10th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing

April 12, 2021

Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos from SBA’s MATRIS research group join the 10th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2021) (https://gist.nju.edu.cn/iwct2021/index.html) on Monday, April 12, 2021, in a virtual setting. Dimitris served as the general chair of the workshop and… Read More

Feature Cloud – SBA at 3rd General Assembly

March 22, 2021

Despite being held online-only, this year’s General Assembly of the H2020 project Feature Cloud was a great success and helped to move the project forward, discussing open issues and setting next goals. SBA Research chaired two sessions on work packages we are leading: WP:… Read More

E-MINT App – Stefan Jakoubi and Thomas Konrad selected as MINT-experts

March 11, 2021

Watch Stefan Jakoubi and Thomas Konrad (both SBA Research) on “I am a hacker” – expert tips for parents to encourage their children’s digital curiosity. The story is featured in the E-MINT app, recently released by the… Read More

WTSC 2021 – Watch Aljosha Judmayer’s talks online

March 9, 2021

SBA’s Aljosha Judmayer presented two papers at this years 5th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (held in association with Financial Cryptography 2021). The videos are now available on the WTSC workshop YouTube Channel. Talk… Read More

SBA Blogpost – No Aliens: Women in ICT

March 8, 2021

Meet three of SBA Research’s inspiring female colleagues! Although still a minority, women have tenaciously worked their way back to the center of ICT. SBA Research is proud to be the professional home to distinguished female experts and promising young talent alike, while also partaking in a wider network of women… Read More

Austrian Council Workshop – Markus Klemen on Digital Sovereignty

March 3, 2021

Markus Klemen (founder and managing director of SBA Research) held an impulse talk on Digital Sovereignty at a virtual workshop organized by the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. The Workshop focused on two aspects of the topic of… Read More

NDSS 2021 – Watch Philipp Schindler’s talk online

March 2, 2021

Philipp Schindler (SBA Research) presented SBA’s paper at NDSS 2021! Missed it? The video is now available on the NDSS YouTube channel. Also available online: the full paper, the… Read More

sec4dev 2021 – 300+ attendees join virtual conference!

March 1, 2021

The third edition of the sec4dev conference & bootcamp was a big success! 300 attendees from 16 countries grabbed the opportunity to boost their security skills. The packed 4 day program included 3 bootcamps, 2 special sessions free… Read More

sec4dev Hands on Session – Creating a simple but secure Linux container

February 26, 2021

Modern container orchestrators like Kubernetes, Docker or LXC work like magic. We run a simple command or submit a declaration file and the system pops up the requested application – but what is happening behind the curtains? What Linux features are leveraged to create something we call a container? In… Read More

sev4dev – Rudolf Mayer & Tanja Šarčević on Adversarial Machine Learning

February 25, 2021

At today’s sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, Rudolf Mayer and Tanja Šarčević (both SBA Research) held a great talk on Adversarial Machine Learning, giving an overview on various attacks (backdoors, evasion, inference/inversion), and… Read More

NGI Explores – Christian Kudera starting his remote expedition as one of 15 participants

February 25, 2021

Christian Kudera was selected as one of 15 NGI Explorers from a total of 130 applicants. NGI Explorers is the program to launch Europe’s best Internet talent into technology expeditions to the United States, catalyzing the impact of their disruptive… Read More

sec4dev – Women In IT: We Are No Aliens!

February 24, 2021

Yesterday evening, the sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, hosted the special event Women in IT – we are no Aliens! – with 50+participants including SBA’s Stephanie Jakoubi, Johanna Ullrich and… Read More

sec4dev – 3 exciting bootcamps in 2 days