SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Dimitris Simos chairs the Seventh International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2018) on April 13, 2018. Kristoffer Kleine presents the paper “CAmetrics: A Tool for Advanced Combinatorial Analysis and Measurement of Test Sets” (joint work with Manuel Leithner and Dimitris E. Simos). IWCT 2018 takes place in Västerås, Sweden and… Read More
Our Decentralized Systems Group and Edgar Weippl organized together with Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University – Fairfax, US), Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, DE) and Volkmar Lotz (SAP Labs France – Mougins, FR) the Dagstuhl Seminar on Blockchains, Smart… Read More
Dimitris Simos (SBA Research) and Rick Kuhn (NIST) are presenting a crash course on combinatorial security testing at the Symposium and Bootcamp for Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HotSoS ’18). The event takes place at Raleigh, NC, USA and is sponsored by the NSA in cooperation… Read More
Futurezone.at reports on an initiative that KSÖ starts jointly with SBA Research “Gemeinsam mit SBA Research startet das KSÖ deshalb Anfang April die Initiative ‘Sicherheitsforum Digitale Wirtschaft Österreich’.”
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2018 CfP Machine learning is clearly a research area that will continue creating real-world impact, as computing power becomes increasingly more readily available. Security and privacy considerations, however, are vital, in particular since machine learning algorithms are often perceived as magical black… Read More
The 11th Plenary of the Research Data Alliance was held 21-23 March 2018 in Berlin under the theme “From Data to Knowledge”. The meeting has gathered scientists, experts and practitioners engaged in the advancement of data-driven science and economy from around the world. Tomasz Miksa chaired a session of the… Read More
Ludwig successfully defended his Master Thesis “Combinatorial and Algorithmic Constructions of Covering Arrays” advised by Dimitris E. Simos,at the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation of TU Vienna. Ludwig gave an excellent presentation and graduated with distinction. Read More
Johanna Ullrich has received the promotional award by the Dr. Maria Schaumayer foundation for her promotion on “Secret Communication in the Internet” (finished in 2016). The foundation has been founded by the first female governor of a national bank Dr. Maria Schaumayer and supports women following their career path.
The ACB intends to function as the Austrian one stop shop for Blockchain related research and development projects. Together with TU Wien, WU, Universität Wien and RIAT, SBA Research is going to approach interdisciplinary research issues. Read more: Horizont.at Cash.at
The paper “A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice” by Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl and William J. Knottenbelt, in cooperation with the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE), was presented at the 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain… 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). ∞