SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Researchers of SBA Research and the SecLab of the Vienna University of Technology participated successfully in the world’s most recognized capture the flag tournament at DEFCON 2012 in Las Vegas Following a tough qualification with hundreds of competing teams, our team “We_Own_You” made its way to the final round with… Read More
Edgar Weippl teaches at the summerschool in Cagliari. Other lecturers are Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, and Pierangela Samarati, University Milan (more…)
SBA organizes the ARES 20120 conference in Prague The ARES Conference Team: (from left to right) A Min Tjoa, Edgar Weippl, Yvonne Poul, Stefan Jakoubi, Simon Tjoa … Read More
12. Juli, 17:00 bei IBM – Architecture Circle Vienna in Wien. Thema: Wie sicher ist Mobile? Der Vortrag gibt Antworten auf brennende Fragen der Sicherheit von mobilen Endgeräten im Unternehmen. Wir werden beispielsweise der Frage nachgehen, ob diese Geräte überhaupt “managebar” sind. Die Devise “Bring your own device” ist… Read More
University of Freiburg together with Secure Business Austria is organizing a workshop on Emulation called “Towards Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies” on this years annual conference on the preservation of digital objects (iPres) to be held in Toronto, Canada in October. More information can be found on the workshop website… Read More
the BEST summer school on information security starts at the Vienna University of Technology. All lectures are held by researchers and professionals from SBA.
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). ∞