SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today at the 13th Haifa Verification Conference [HVC] Dimitris Simos is invited to give a tutorial on Combinatorial Security Testing. HVC is organized by IBM Research Haifa. … Read More
Researchers present their research at ITSecX in St.Pölten. Wilfried Mayer will talk about our recent Usenix Paper on the usability of deploying and hardening HTTPS. Lisa Leonhartsberger will present her recent findings on secure authentication and authorization in cross-platform mobile app development. Alexandra Mai will give a talk on… Read More
The Horizon 2020 project MyHealthMyData empowers patients, as the primary owner of their health data, to share this data in a secure and privacy-protecting manner with external parties, such as researchers or the pharmaceutical industry. A meeting dedicated to discuss the technical aspects of the implementation takes place in Geneva,… Read More
The kick off meeting of the FFG BRIDGE 1 project SecWIT (Securing Web Technologies with Combinatorial Interaction Testing) took place on November 10th, 2017 at SBA Research. The goals of SecWIT include the creation of attack models for generalized content injections, development of new oracles, and research on… Read More
On 24th October the “Technolution – Herbstkongress” (Technolution – autumn congress) took place at the technical museum in Vienna. The event was promoting education and professions in the technical and research area, targeting students in middle and high school with a special focus on girls and women in technology. Part… Read More
Markus Klemen speaks at the FEMtech network meeting about flexible working hours, female role models and the possibilities of part-time work in leading positions. More information about the meeting can be found here. (in german) Pictures: (c) www.annarauchenberger.com… Read More
We have a large group working on cryptocurrencies, block chain, and distributed ledger technology. Recent publications include our user experience study (The other side of the coin) and our book Blocks & Chains. You can also watch our CCS tutorial on youtube. Our current projects explore… Read More
Tomasz Miksa co-organized a session on Changing the Culture of Data Management Plans: making DMPs machine-actionable and FAIR at the FORCE2017 Conference in Berlin, Germany. The FORCE2017 Research Communication and e-Scholarship Conference brought together a diverse group of people interested in changing the way in which scholarly and scientific information… Read More
SBA Research co-organized the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) together with TU Wien and WU Wien. ISWC 2017 took place from October 21 – 25, 2017 at WU Campus and Messe Wien. We welcomed more than 550 participants!… 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). ∞