SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Sebastian Schrittwieser (SBA Research) works on faster identification of cyber attacks by making the hacking process more obvious. Schrittwieser and his team are designing highly complex program codes in order to prevent damage. Full article
Johanna Ullrich finally got her PhD officially awarded sub auspiciis Praesidentis in presence of the Austrian president Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen. This type of promotion is the highest honor for achievement, and the laureates receive a gold ring from the president. The tradition dates back to the 17th… Read More
Marc Juarez from KU Leuven gave a guest lecture at TU Wien (in this years “Privacy Enhancing Technologies” course). He spoke about “Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses in the Wild” on December 1st 2017.
Together with TU Wien, SBA Research is exhibiting at the leading industry fair for industrial production systems SPS IPC Drives, taking place from November 28-30, 2017 in Nürnberg, Germany. Under the slogan “IT-Security & Quality for Industry 4.0” SBA Research is presenting its concepts and strategies for effective protection… Read More
Last week Andreas Ekelhart (SBA) and Elmar Kiesling (TU Wien) received a scientific promotion for their research on Semantic Processing of Security Event Streams.
Tomasz Miksa and Kevin Ashley from the Digital Curation Centre in the UK organised a workshop on Research Data Lifecycle and Machine-actionable Data Management Plans that was held at the University of Vienna on the 22nd of November. Representatives of major Austrian universities and funding institutions worked together to… 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). ∞