SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Cyber attacks are all over the media and keep putting Austria´s digitization at risk. Global cyber crime and digital insecurities affect society and economy. Who will defend our connected systems in the future, and how will a possible defense look like? How can cyber security be implemented in order to… Read More
Over 100 software developers received a good amount of practical advice at the first edition of sec4dev conference + bootcamp. Above all they learned how to include security in their process from day 1. Futurezone article on sec4dev 2019
Hamza Abusalah has an SBA paper accepted at Eurocrypt 2019 taking place in Darmstadt, Germany from May 19-23, 2019.Paper: Reversible Proofs of Sequential Work We are also excited to announce that the paper “XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets” by Alexei Zamyatin is accepted at IEEE S&P… Read More
The first edition of sec4dev conference + bootcamp was hosted at TU Campus Gußhaus from February 25 -27, 2019 and welcomed more than 100 participants. After two all day bootcamps on Monday, the single track conference was kicked off on Tuesday morning with a keynote from Markus Sabadello on Decentralized… Read More
CONCORDIA is a major H2020 consortium to interconnect Europe’s Cybersecurity capabilities. It will establish a pilot for a Cybersecurity Competence Network and will lead the development of a common Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap for Europe. Press release
The sec4dev 2019 conference has officially started. The first day´s agenda was filled up with two all day boot camps. Thomas Konrad´s (SBA) participants learned how to hack themselves in the “Hack Yourself: Hands-On-Web Application Security from an Attacker´s perspective” boot camp. Philippe de Ryck (Pragmatic Web Security) introduced “A… Read More
Johanna Ullrich held a workshop at the first all female Hackathon at TU Wien on February 9, 2019. Women and Code is an initiative for women interested in coding/programming, front-end development and eager to learn something new. SBA supports Women and Code and their ambition to bring more women into… 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). ∞