SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On July 6th, as part of the TU Wien course “Digitale Kompetenzen @ Parlament”, our Key Researchers Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich gave lectures for members and staff of the Austrian parliament. They covered the topics security, networks and cyber-physical systems. … Read More
Today, Klaus Kieseberg of the MATRIS research group presented the paper “On the applicability of combinatorial methods to disaster exercise generation”, a joint work between Bernhard Garn, Klaus Kieseberg, Dominik Schreiber and Dimitris E. Simos (all MATRIS… Read More
SBA and AIT are hosting the workshop “Is this you? Identity and Authenticity in the Digital Age” at the annual CODE conference of the Bundeswehr University Munich on the 21st July 2021 (09:30-12:30). The CODE Annual Conference is an excellent medium for presenting current scientific developments to a… Read More
Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research) and Otmar Lendl (CERT.at) were guests in “Punkt Eins” (Ö1) and answered questions from the audience. Cybercrime is increasing in quantity as well as quality, and everyone who is connected via the Internet may… Read More
Rudolf Mayer, head of our Machine Learning and Data Management Group (MLDM), is one of the guest editors of ERCIM News’ current issue on privacy-preserving computation. He and his team also contributed an article about WellFort, a… Read More
Within just one week, Michael Wagner attended IWOCA2021 and the 2021 World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO 2021). Scientists, engineers, mathematicians and practitioners from a variety of related disciplines exchanged ideas and presented original research results in the theory and applications of… Read More
Stephanie Jakoubi, SBA’s Head of Strategic Partner Management, has collected 200 inspiring stories from women in IT. We are also proud to welcome our 56th FEMtech intern and are piloting a new initiative for female STEM students. Read more here (in German). Read More
In this episode of the podcast Zukunft Denken, Alexander Schatten talks about deep fakes. He discusses the historical background of technical innovations, how essential information was conveyed before the 20th century and where we are heading today. He is asking the question what Deep… Read More
The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION15), hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. Panos Pardalos (General Chair), Dimitris E. Simos (TPC Chair) and Ilias Kotsireas (Local Organizing Chair) are welcoming contributors from 29 countries and are happy… Read More
In an interview with Mayrs Magazin – the new ORF science magazine – Edgar Weippl talks about the possibility of intercepting encrypted communications, using the example of the current investigative success with regard to the messenger app Anom. The broadcast is available for 6 days… 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). ∞