SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We are thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of IEEE Euro S&P 2024, held in the city of Vienna! This year’s conference brought together more than 300 leading experts, researchers, and practitioners from 32 countries in the field of cybersecurity, offering an unparalleled platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration. Read More
We are proud to announce that SBA Research will once again be funded as one of six COMET Centers by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), starting in 2025. This marks the third funding period since its establishment as a K-Ind (industrial competence center)… Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research and Marco Reiser published an interesting article on "What programming at prompt level leads to". Where can AI systems really help programmers and is the approach taken here really new? This article takes a look at their role. ... Read More
We are thrilled to announce that, Dimitris Simos (Key Researcher, MATRIS lead, and Head of Strategic Research) has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Applications of Computer Algebra Early Researcher Award (ACA-ERA). Recognized as “one of the most dynamic and active researchers” by the award committee,… Read More
Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultant and Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published an interesting article regarding KI Assistants and LLMs and how to check the code quality on heise online. ... Read More
Matteo Maffei has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research into the security aspects of blockchain technologies. This is his second prestigious ERC grant, further highlighting his contributions to the field of cybersecurity. ... Read More
In the paper, we explore privacy attacks via linkage of samples of human microbiome, and extend on the current threat landscape by a more effective linkage attack. We further discuss mitigation actions. Our paper was published in “Computers & Security“, a Q1 ranked journal by… Read More
Last week, our annual event for partners and friends of SBA Research, IMPACT, brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. The afternoon provided an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in security, AI, and innovation, celebrate our long-standing relationships, and mark 20 years of SBA Research’s contributions to cutting-edge cybersecurity and trustworthy digital innovation. ∞
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞