SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The first joint NIST/ SBA Research Workshop on Combinatorial Security Testing took place today in Vienna where Dr. Raghu Kacker and Prof. Jeff Lei were invited as speakers. The scope of the workshop was to facilitate the cooperation between the Combinatorial Security Testing team of SBA Research and the ACTS project… Read More
Prof. Jeff Lei, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA gives a talk about “A Combinatorial Approach to Conformance Testing of Personal Healthcare Devices”. His research interests are in the area of automated software analysis, testing and verification, with a current focus on combinatorial testing. He is… Read More
Dr. Raghu Kacker, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL),National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA gives a talk about “Introduction to Advanced Combinatorial Testing System “. Friday, April 10th, 2015, 10:15-10:30.
As part of an ongoing project on increasing TLS security we are today announcing https://tlscompare.org This webpage is about evaluating a massive extension of the ruleset for HTTPSEverywhere, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox which switches user traffic from… Read More
As part of a business trip to Austria and Germany, SBA Research welcomed guests from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Information and Communication Security Technology Center and the National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan, at our research institution. Read More
Dr. Stefan Brunthaler, Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, USA gives a talk about “Large-scale Automated Software Diversity – Programming Language Technology to Enhance System Security”. The Abstract can be found here. Thursday, March 26, 2015, 10:00-11:00 This event ist hosted by the IEEE… Read More
Zum zweiten Mal in Folge, gewann das CTF-Team (We 0wn You Lite) unter der Führung von SBA und FH St.Pölten (sowie je einem Gast aus Östrreich, Deutschland und Indien) den Hackerwettbewerb “Packetwars” im Rahmen der Troopers 2015. Simuliert wurde ein Car-2-Car Netzwerk und eine darin grassierende Malware (“Gridlock”). Das ganze… Read More
Peter defended his thesis (“Database Forensics: Towards a forensic-aware database solution”) successfully and graduated with distinction. Congratulations! Abstract… 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). ∞