SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SecurityTwins – Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Threat Detection & Response – is a BRIDGE 1 Cooperative R&I project with three partner from academia and industry (Condignum, ENRAG and University of Vienna… Read More
Made for the makers! The 2021 edition of the sec4dev conference (22-25 Feb´21) comes with numerous exciting topics and special sessions. Addressed areas will cover application security, security testing & automation, cloud & container, machine learning & AI security and much more. As… Read More
Kevin Mallinger, Johanna Ullrich and Alexander Schatten (all SBA Research) wrote an article on the potentials and challenges of IoT-systems for the OVE-Newsletter in December, in which Mario Drobics (OVE-working group lead & Head of Competence Unit Cooperative Digital Technologies… Read More
The ÖFG Magazine (#1, 2020, p14) published an article on our working group on Security & Privacy in Digital Transformation. Read the full article! Background The ÖFG Working Group on Digital Transformation: Safety, Safety, Security… Read More
Edgar Weippl (research director, SBA Research) was interviewed on planned measures against secure end-to-end encryption published by the Council of the European Union. The resolution issued by the EU Council will give member states more legal competences to access communications protected by end-to-end… Read More
3 years of collaboration within the IoT4CPS project is coming to an end: 16 consortium partners (including SBA Research) nearly 100 project team members involved 45+ deliverables achieved (+30 public documents) 7 white papers written, 6 posters illustrated… Read More
The KIRAS project Digital Atlas Austria 2.0, led by SBA Research, was successfully completed last month. The study offers insight into Internet-based services that are relevant and critical for Austria and presents their ownership structures and regulatory environments. By creating failure… Read More
The “Blockchain” hype of recent years increasingly attracts attention due to the financial aspects of Cryptocurrencies and raises interest in the opportunities offered by the underlying protocols. These technologies, commonly referred to as distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), cover several application areas. The increasing use of DLTs in both large enterprises… Read More
Thomas Konrad, Principal Security Consultant at SBA Research, was part of the 3rd edition of the WeAreDevelopers Live Week 2020. For 5 days, 30+ sessions consisting of hyper-focused coding sessions, hands-on workshops and live Q&A sessions were presented to the community… 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). ∞