SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Made for the makers!The 2021 edition of the sec4dev conference (22-25 Feb´21) starts today with 300+ participants! It comes with numerous exciting topics and special sessions covering application security, security testing & automation, cloud & container, machine learning & AI security and much more. As an additional… Read More
ACCSA aimed to enable comprehensive and innovative training, exercise and evaluation concepts for all actors in state cyber crisis management and the like and thereby reduced response times and error rates in the event of a real cyber crisis. In the course of this project, SBA Research was working on threat scenarios used as… Read More
Edgar Weippl (SBA Research) co-organizes the Dagstuhl seminar SiPS – Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks for Cyber Insurance at the distinguished Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. This Dagstuhl seminar aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to analyze and discuss open questions and… Read More
Since our entire working life runs on software, security is essential for almost every business operation; what is more, customer trust largely depends on whether security incidents happen and if so, how they are handled. To strongly root security in your company culture. Read the full article on the concept… Read More
Congratulations to Dimitris E. Simos (Key Researcher at SBA Research) for completing his Habilitation at Graz University of Technology. As of Jan.1st 2021, Dimitris is now Associate Professor (non-tenured track, venia docendi for Applied Computer Science) with… Read More
Congratulations to Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (Key Researcher at SBA Research) for joining the Technical University of Munich as of February 1st. She takes over the newly created Chair for Information Systems and Business Process Management. Read More
Our second newsletter was sent out today. Check it out here! We introduce you to ISIS, our (I)IoT, Systems and Industrial Security Group. In our video we highlight their research in areas such as side-channel attacks, automating security risk assessments or injecting security features in firmware post… Read More
Today is Safer Internet Day! To support our partners and customers, we have compiled our Home Office top tips for employees and for organizations for keeping their IT infrastructure secure and available. Stay secure during Home Office! Security Tips for Home Office SBA Live Academy on YouTube:… Read More
From Bad-Cop Culture to Sustainable Security Integration Since our entire working life runs on software, security is essential for almost every business operation; what is more, customer trust largely depends on whether security incidents happen and if so, how they are handled. To strongly root security in your company culture,… Read More
SBA’s paper “On the Usability of Authenticity Checks for Hardware Security Tokens” by Katharina Pfeffer, Alexandra Mai, Adrian Dabrowski, Matthias Gusenbauer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl, Michael… 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). ∞