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

Recent News:

Cybersecurity for Startups!

SBA Research supports Vienna’s startup community with our expertise in information security.We offer professional experience in how to engage research opportunities and provide tailored consulting services to further increase the security standards in young companies. One of our main activities is to strengthen security awareness through workshops and talks. After… Read More

EuroBSDCon 2021 supported by SBA Research

The EuroBSDCon 2021 was held virtually from September 17 – 19, 2021, co-organized by Manuel Wiesinger (former SBA Research, now at VUSec in Amsterdam) and supported by SBA Research. The conference was streamed live for some Viennese participants at… Read More

Digitaler Atlas Österreich 2.0 featured in KIRAS publications

Every few years, the Austrian ministry responsible for funding the KIRAS Security Research program issues two publications to present funded projects. SBA’s Digitaler Atlas Österreich 2.0 – a study to identify and analyze internet-based digital services vital to the Austrian government and… Read More

Another great hiking day at SBA Research

As we set value on social events at SBA, we try to even meet in pandemic times. And what would fit better as doing some hiking in the nature? Today we all met again for a SBA Hiking Day and took the Vienna hiking trail number 5 around the Bisamberg… Read More

6th IEEE EuroS&P 2021 held successfully

The 6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2021), organized by SBA Research, TU Wien and the University of Vienna was held from September 6 – 10, 2021 as all-digital conference. We welcomed more than 280 participants from 42 countries. The first two days were dedicated to… Read More

Heads Up: SBA@IT-SECX 2021!

On October 1st, 2021 SBA Research will be at the IT-SECX, the annual conference of UAS St. Pölten. You will have the opportunity to chat with us at the SBA booth and attend the expert talks of Philipp Reisinger and Martin Grottenthaler; they will give… Read More

Paper @ AINA 2021 and the FeatureCloud Project

Authors from SBA Research & TU Wien (Anastasia Pustozerova, Andreas Rauber, Rudolf Mayer) published the paper “Training Effective Neural Networks on Structured Data with Federated Learning” at the AINA-2021 conference. Visit the FeatureCloud project and… Read More

ARES & CD-MAKE 2021 held successfully

The second virtual ARES & CD-MAKE conference was held from August 17 to August 20, 2021. We were proud to welcome over 340 participants from 39+ countries to this second all-digital ARES & CD-MAKE conference! The four conference days were filled with internationally renowned keynote speakers,… Read More

eAwared 2021: Cyber Security Quiz nominated

The Cyber Security Quiz, a learning and gaming app for learning security and privacy, is nominated in the category “Education and human resources development” of this year eAward. We are all online almost every day. But few know the footprint we leave on the internet and the dangers… Read More

Cybercrime: Edgar Weippl in „Zett“ am Sonntag

As one of four experts, Edgar Weippl was interviewed for the most recent issue of South Tyrol’s “Zett” am Sonntag. In his statement, he sheds light on cyber espionage on state level and illustrates some worrying consequences of the – due to the pandemic –  hastened digitalization of businesses. Furthermore,… Read More

KIRAS project G-Star granted

SBA Research is happy to announce that the KIRAS project “G-Star: Gesamtstaatliche Erfassung der Resilienz im Kontext komplexer Krisenszenarien“ was granted. Kevin Mallinger and Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research) will be working on the project in cooperation with the BKA (Federal Chancellery Republic Austria), BMI… Read More