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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.

Upcoming Events:

SBA Security Meetup I Spring Festival
25.04.2024
SBA Security Meetup I Kubernetes Security Day
29.04.2024
SHE goes DIGITAL workshop @ SBA Research
02.05.2024

Recent News:

New chairman for the SBA Scientific Advisory Board

Christopher Kruegel, a longtime collaborator, will chair our Scientific Advisory Board. He has published more than 89 papers at the 4 major security conferences and founded Lastline (later acquired by VMware) by building on the results of… Read More
scientific and innovation board chair christopher krügel

ERC grant awardees joined new COMET proposal NGC

We are pleased to announce that Maria Christakis joined SBA’s new COMET proposal Next Generation Cybersecurity (SBA-K1 NGC) as member of the scientific and innovation board, Laura Kovacs and Matteo Maffei joined as key researchers. Maria Christakis’s ERC grant focuses on improving software testing, ©… Read More
ERC grant awardees joined new COMET proposal NGC

MATRIS @IIASA for ECE Seminar

On April 8, 2024, the MATRIS Research Group and the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) research program members of IIASA convened for the ECE Seminar at the headquarters of IIASA at Schloss Laxenburg, while approximately 25 members from both parties participated remotely. Read More
MATRIS @IIASA for ECE Seminar

New Directions in Attack/Defense Modeling

SBA Research, University of Vienna, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Joanneum Research held a joint workshop on new directions in attack/defense modeling using AI on April 12th,… Read More

Dimitris Simos @ PH-US-UNCTAD Workshop on DRR

🔍 Exploring Global Solutions:The PH-US-UNCTAD Harnessing STI for DRR Workshop convened in Manila, Philippines from February 29 to March 1, 2024. With delegates from 44 UNCSTD member states, Dr. Dimitris Simos,... Read More
All UN Workshop 2024 Participants in Meeting Room

ACM MobiSys 2024 – Paper Accepted

Gabriel Gegenhuber’s new paper “Why E.T. Can’t Phone Home: A Global View on IP-based Geoblocking at VoWiFi” was recently accepted to the MobiSys conference happening in Tokyo in June 2024. The paper exposes existing blocking practices within worldwide mobile network operators that prevent customers from using Wi-Fi calling during roaming. Read More

Talk: Turning Machine-actionable DMPs into FAIR Digital Objects

Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave an interesting talk on “Turning Machine-actionable DMPs into FAIR Digital Objects” at the International FAIR Digital Objects Implementation Summit in Berlin. Transition to FDOs requires significant changes in the design of existing tools and… Read More

Getting physical | The Options of Reading and Sending CAN

In early March, the MATRIS Applied Research Consulting Team organized the second meetup of the Automotive Security Meetup series for the automotive community at SBA Research. The meeting format of the Automotive Security Research Group (ASRG Vienna) aims to foster discussion about ideas, methods,… Read More

Ö1-Interview with Alexander Schatten

Ö1 Dimensions: Is science becoming more conformist? In this inaugural Ö1 Dimensions event on the topic of science and conformity, Alexander Schatten – senior researcher at SBA Research, © Marcel Lehner was interviewed alongside other guests such as… Read More

Join us @ the annual Charity Concert for the Ukrainehilfe

As every year, the Faculty and Student Representation Computer Science and Chemistry (University of Vienna) would like to join forces to do good together and invites cordially to this year’s charity concert. SBA Research joins in too and all donations from the benefit concert will go to the Ukrainehilfe of… Read More
Join us @ the annual Charity Concert for the Ukrainehilfe

Tomasz Miksa launches Salzburg Manifesto @ IDCC24

Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, co-chaired and co-organized a workshop titled “Elevating Data Management Planning: Interoperability of RDM Services through Machine-Actionability,” held on 19 February 2024 in Edinburgh, Great Britain, as part of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC24). The workshop facilitated discussions… Read More
Tomasz Miksa launches Salzburg Manifesto @ IDCC24

Success Story: Research enhances security!   

Successful cooperation with Commend takes seamless IT security in product development to a new level Commend‘s software engineers and product experts are working closely with SBA Research as part of the “Symphony: Intercom as a Cloud Service” project. © Commend… Read More
Success Story: Research enhances security!