SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
‘Securing the Internet, One HTTP 200 OK at a Time’ (Login, Usenix Magazine Winter 2017, Vol. 42, No. 4) is a summary of our recent Usenix Security paper ‘“I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” – On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS‘, and you’ll be soon able to… Read More
David Rupprecht, Adrian Dabrowski, Thorsten Holz, Edgar Weippl, and Christina P ̈opper. On security research towards future mobile network generations. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2018. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08932.
At this event, organized by the OCG Forum Privacy and the OCG-working group IT-security, the project consortium presents three significant results of the KIRAS project CERT-Komm II. This project, for the federal chancellery of Austria, consists of SBA Research as the consortium leader and the following project partners: University of Vienna,… Read More
At the Software Quality Days 2018, Edgar Weippl gives a talk on Security Challenges in Cyber-Physical Production Systems with a focus on securing the lifecycle of production systems engineering. published by Springer. Read More
IoT4CPS will develop guidelines, methods and tools to enable safe and secure IoT-based applications for automated driving and for smart production. The project will address safety and security aspects in a holistic approach both along the specific value chains and the product life cycles. Click here… Read More
Heise picked up on our recent ACSAC Paper. DerStandard.at also reads Heise. Gamestar.de and Ad-hoc-news.de also published articles. Summary on futurezone.at. The paper “Grid Shock: Coordinated Load-Change Attacks on Power Grids” by Adrian Dabrowski, Johanna Ullrich, and Edgar Weippl was recently presented at the 2017 Annual Computer… Read More
Our new book on empirical research for software security is available. Empirical Research for Software Security: Foundations and Experience, Lotfi ben Othmane, Martin Gilje Jaatun, Edgar Weippl (eds), CRC Press, ISBN 9781498776417. Read More
We are happy to announce that SBA Research is hosting the security track „Private and Secure Development“ of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018, the biggest development conference in Europe (Twitter). We are supporting WeAreDevelopers with our information security and secure development experience. Read More
HTTPS is the most commonly used cryptographic protocol on the Internet. It protects communication content and provides endpoint authenticity at scale. However, deploying HTTPS in a truly secure fashion can be a challenging task even for experienced admins. To explore why this is the case and how these challenges can… 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). ∞