SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The paper “No Need for Black Chambers: Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large” has won the best paper award at ARES 2016. Congrats to our researchers Willi, Aaron, Martin and Markus! You can find the paper here, our slides are openly available as well.
Today is the first day of the 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016), which is hosted by the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg and SBA Research. The ARES 2016 Conference takes place from 31 August to 2 September 2016 in Salzburg, Austria. We are welcoming 227 participants from… Read More
Salzburger Dialog is an annual event organized by Dr. Stefan Eder. Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on Cyber-Security and possible effects of the NIS directive. Read More
The second joint workshop between NIST and SBA Research on combinatorial security testing was held at SBA Research, Vienna on August 4th, 2016. The scope of the workshop was to strengthen the existing and already high successful cooperation between the Combinatorial Security Testing team of SBA Research and the ACTS… Read More
Today is the last day of the 9th International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2016), which is hosted by SBA Research. We are welcoming Virgil D. Gligor (Carnegie Mellon University, UK) & Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt & CASED, Germany) as Keynote Speakers at TRUST 2016. The TRUST 2016 Conference takes place from… Read More
Under the lead of TU Austria, we organize an Alpbach Breakout Session on Cyber-Security as a fundamental right. Participants include Isao Echizen (NII), Lokke Moerel (Tilburg University), Günter Müller (University of Freiburg), Reinhard Posch (TU Graz), Bart Preneel (University of Leuven), A Min Tjoa (TU Wien), and Edgar Weippl… Read More
Klaus Krapfenbauer, one of SBA’s bright students, successfully finished his Winter of Security project at Mozilla. As part of his master thesis he implemented a PoC for fully automated Let’s Encrypt support in nginx. Due to the design of nginx, this was not a straight forward task. You… Read More
From September 19 to 21, around 65 talented and curious women and FINTA* immersed themselves in the exciting world of cybersecurity at the University of Vienna. This continuing education and networking program is unique in Europe and is designed to make it easier to enter and advance in IT security. ... ∞
The 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2025) took center stage in Ghent, Belgium, from August 11-14, 2025, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. Co-located with ARES 2025 was the 8th International Symposium for Industrial Control System & SCADA Cyber Security Research.... ∞