SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Kevin Mallinger held the official Beyond Coding Kick-Off event on the 1st of October with 3 scientific partners and 20 company partners attending. This marks the start of a series of online teaching events organized by SBA Research and its teaching partners (FH St. Pölten, JKU, ÖBB, CMS Legal)… Read More
Markus Hittmeir, Senior Researcher at SBA Research, is collaborating with Igor Semaev from the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen on mathematical problems related to cryptography. Read More
Tomasz Miksa was appointed by the EOSC Association as a member of the task force on “Technical Interoperability of Data and Services”. Thus, he will have a chance to make a contribution to shaping and realization of the European Open Science Cloud… Read More
SBA Research supports Vienna’s startup community with our expertise in information security.We offer professional experience in how to engage research opportunities and provide tailored consulting services to further increase the security standards in young companies. One of our main activities is to strengthen security awareness through workshops and talks. Read More
The EuroBSDCon 2021 was held virtually from September 17 – 19, 2021, co-organized by Manuel Wiesinger (former SBA Research, now at VUSec in Amsterdam) and supported by SBA Research. The conference was streamed live for some Viennese participants at… Read More
Every few years, the Austrian ministry responsible for funding the KIRAS Security Research program issues two publications to present funded projects. SBA’s Digitaler Atlas Österreich 2.0 – a study to identify and analyze internet-based digital services vital to the Austrian government and… Read More
As we set value on social events at SBA, we try to even meet in pandemic times. And what would fit better as doing some hiking in the nature? Today we all met again for a SBA Hiking Day and took the Vienna hiking trail number 5 around the Bisamberg… Read More
We are happy to announce that our paper „Better Keep Cash in Your Boots – Hardware Wallets Are the New Single Point of Failure” from Adrian Dabrowski (University of California, Irvine), Katharina Pfeffer (SBA Research), Markus Reichel (Vienna University of Technology), Alexandra Mai (SBA… Read More
The 6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2021), organized by SBA Research, TU Wien and the University of Vienna was held from September 6 – 10, 2021 as all-digital conference. We welcomed more than 280 participants from 42 countries. The first two days were dedicated to… Read More
On October 1st, 2021 SBA Research will be at the IT-SECX, the annual conference of UAS St. Pölten. You will have the opportunity to chat with us at the SBA booth and attend the expert talks of Philipp Reisinger and Martin Grottenthaler; they will give… 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). ∞