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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

New chairman for the SBA Scientific Advisory Board

Christopher Kruegel, a longtime collaborator, will chair our Scientific Advisory Board. He has published more than 89 papers at the 4 major security conferences and founded Lastline (later acquired by VMware) by building on the results of… Read More
scientific and innovation board chair christopher krügel

ERC grant awardees joined new COMET proposal NGC

We are pleased to announce that Maria Christakis joined SBA’s new COMET proposal Next Generation Cybersecurity (SBA-K1 NGC) as member of the scientific and innovation board, Laura Kovacs and Matteo Maffei joined as key researchers. Maria Christakis’s ERC grant focuses on improving software testing,… Read More
ERC grant awardees joined new COMET proposal NGC

Ö1-Interview with Alexander Schatten

Ö1 Dimensions: Is science becoming more conformist? In this inaugural Ö1 Dimensions event on the topic of science and conformity, Alexander Schatten – senior researcher at SBA Research, © Marcel Lehner was interviewed alongside other guests such as… Read More

Join us @ the annual Charity Concert for the Ukrainehilfe

As every year, the Faculty and Student Representation Computer Science and Chemistry (University of Vienna) would like to join forces to do good together and invites cordially to this year’s charity concert. SBA Research joins in too and all donations from the benefit concert will go to the Ukrainehilfe of… Read More
Join us @ the annual Charity Concert for the Ukrainehilfe

Tomasz Miksa launches Salzburg Manifesto @ IDCC24

Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, co-chaired and co-organized a workshop titled “Elevating Data Management Planning: Interoperability of RDM Services through Machine-Actionability,” held on 19 February 2024 in Edinburgh, Great Britain, as part of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC24). The workshop facilitated discussions… Read More
Tomasz Miksa launches Salzburg Manifesto @ IDCC24

Success Story: Research enhances security!   

Successful cooperation with Commend takes seamless IT security in product development to a new level Commend‘s software engineers and product experts are working closely with SBA Research as part of the “Symphony: Intercom as a Cloud Service” project. © Commend… Read More
Success Story: Research enhances security!   

Cyber Security Fundamentals – Kostenloser Kurs für produzierende Unternehmen

Als Partner des European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) AI5production bietet SBA Research den Kurs “Cyber Security Fundamentals” an. Das Ziel des Kurses ist es, die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer auf eine eintägige Reise in die immer wichtiger werdende Welt der Cyber-Security mitzunehmen. Dabei wird ein umfassender Überblick über dieses… Read More

Scaling Exponents of Time Series Data: A Machine Learning Approach

This publication by members of SBA’s CORE Research group presents a novel AI-based approach for estimating the volatility of time series data. This approach is based on a solid ground truth obtained from a vast array of theoretical models and is tested on real-life financial data to show its applicability… Read More

Aljosha Judmayer successfully defended his PhD thesis

We congratulate Aljosha Judmayer to successfully defending his PhD thesis “Pay to Win – Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on Permissionless Cryptocurrencies” and thank Rainer Böhme and Bryan Ford for their service as examiners. © Edgar Weippl Aljosha and our distributed systems group have… Read More

Two cover articles in iX heise magazine by Alexander Schatten

Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published two cover articles regarding the ESG software market in heise iX. ©heise magazine The ESG reporting obligations are coming In 2024 and 2025, many SMEs will be subject to new non-financial reporting obligations on the… Read More