SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
For many companies, the crisis was a rapid driver of digitalization – as a result, the hacker scene has experienced another real upswing. The topic of IT security has thus also gained in importance. As usual, participants will be provided with exciting community news, expert interviews, trends and the most… Read More
This document provides an overview of the architecture of the L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS), which provides a secure, scalable and spectrum efficient terrestrial data link for civil aviation. LDACS is a scheduled, reliable multi-application cellular broadband system with support for IPv6. N.Mäurer, T.Gräupl, C.Schmitt: L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications… Read More
SBA Research, the Vienna Competence Center for Information Security, will be funded for another four years within the framework of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies Report of the FFG On 16 June 2020, the mid-term evaluation of SBA-K1, the COMET flagship research program of SBA Research, took… Read More
A total of eight female researchers have been nominated for this year’s Hedy Lamarr Prize of the City of Vienna. The prize is awarded to women in Austria for their outstanding achievements in the field of information technology. On October 1, the Hedy Lamarr Prize will be awarded for the… Read More
Alexandra Mai and Katharina Pfeffer present their paper „User Mental Models of Cryptocurrency Systems – A Grounded Theory Approach“ at this year’s SOUPS (Symposium on usable privacy and security). “ The sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) brings together an interdisciplinary group of… Read More
Innovative Solutions by joint Research Tangible results demonstrate the lasting benefit of the COMET program – from basic to applied research. 10 years of joint efforts in information security within the COMET program have led to a plethora of new and innovative approaches. cyan Security… Read More
On Tuesday, June 16th, 2020, our scientific work in our flagship activity, COMET, was evaluated by an international jury of experts. Due to the all-too-well known COVID-19 restrictions, the whole event had been moved to the virtual realm. That is to say, almost. It turns out that even a virtual… Read More
Security in the digital world is not only one of the main 2020 topics of the association fit4internet in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Business Location (BMDW), but is also centrally dealt with in the new Digital Action Plan Austria. Respective future steps were presented by the… Read More
Christian Kudera spoke about cross-border interoperability of Corona tracing apps with Deutsche Welle.Read full article He was also quoted in a podcast about the cross-border functionality of Corona tracing apps by Deutschlandfunk Nova.Listen to the podcast
The hackathon [1] was organised together with the Austrian node of Research Data Alliance (RDA Austria). There were 12 teams, 71 participants, from 21 countries that worked with the RDA Common standard for machine-actionable DMPs [2] to add support to existing tools, build novel integrations and define new mappings. The… Read More
The research on Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) by the MATRIS group of SBA Research is amongst the top five nominations for the Houska prize, Austria's largest private award for application-oriented research, in the category non-university research. ... ∞