SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We are proud to share that Shecurity has been honored with the Women in Tech Community Initiative of the Year award for 2024 in December! ... Read More
meshmakers.io teamed up with the SBA to explore Gaia-X, a European initiative aimed at creating federated and secure data spaces. Leveraging their Octo Mesh platform, meshmakers.io optimises data from diverse sources, including machine data… Read More
On December 9, 2024, the “𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗧-𝗧𝗮𝗴“, inspiring women from the IT field dedicated their time to meet with thousands of enthusiastic high and middle school students across Austria. At SBA Research, we are incredibly proud to have supported this one-of-a-kind initiative from its early days,… Read More
Markus Klemen, CEO of SBA Research, participated in a high-level panel discussion during the FFG Community Day 2025, addressing “Strategic Challenges for Secure and Successful Research from Europe.” The panel delved into pressing issues surrounding research and development in today’s… Read More
Mathias Tausig, information security expert at SBA Research, gave an interesting talk on “The monster in your basement: Security risks of CI/CD systems” at both Continuous Lifecycle / ContainerConf 2024 in Mannheim and BSides Vienna 2024. ... Read More
At the 35th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX’24), an event co-organized by TU Graz and Ben Gurion University, and sponsored by AIJ, Dimitris Simos gave a keynote titled “Combinatorial Methods beyond Testing: Optimizing Disaster Scenarios to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience”. In his keynote, Dimitris… Read More
Johanna Ullrich participated in the panel discussion together with Christiane Ahlborn, (Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Trinity College Dublin), Jeanette Gorzala (Legal Expert for the EU AI Act & AI Governance and Member of the Austrian AI Advisory… Read More
On November 13th, Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave a very well received keynote on "Will AI save us from the software complexity trap?" at the Continuous Lifecycle / ContainerConf 2024 in Mannheim. ... Read More
A new paper, “Systematization of Knowledge: The Design Space of Digital Payment Systems with Potential for CBD,” led by first author Judith Senn, research assistant at the University of Innsbruck, and co-authored by Aljosha Judmayer, researcher at the University of Vienna, Nicholas Stifter, researcher at SBA Research, ... ∞
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. ∞