SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability & Security (QRS 2016) was held from 01 – 03 August 2016 in Vienna, Austria, supported by SBA Research. QRS 2016 Team Mayor´s Reception Mayor´s Reception Mayor´s Reception… Read More
Dimitris Simos (SBA Research), Rick Kuhn (NIST), Jeff Yu Lei (University of Texas at Arlington) and Raghu Kacker (NIST) give a tutorial on Combinatorial Security Testing at QRS 2016. The tutorial is comprised of two parts focusing on combinatorial testing methods and their usage to security… Read More
The interplay between discrete mathematics and computer science is crucial for the successful deployment of real-world applications but also necessary for the advancement of theoretical approaches and methodologies. Recently, the combinatorial security testing team of SBA Research has marked significant contributions in this regard: The paper “Algebraic Modelling… Read More
The “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime” project is funded by the European Commission under Internal Security Fund-Police 2014-2020 (ISFP). The main goal of the project is to create a single point of Reference for EU national Cybercrime Centres of Excellence and develop further the… Read More
The general objective of the Association is to support all types of initiatives or projects that aim to develop, promote, encourage European cybersecurity. Yesterday, July 5th 2016, the cybersecurity contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) has been signed at the European Parliament of Strasbourg, in presence of the VP… Read More
The paper “The Beauty or The Beast? Attacking Rate Limits of the Xen Hypervisor” by Johanna Ullrich and Edgar Weippl has been accepted for publication at the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) which takes place from September, 26th-30th, 2016 in… Read More
We are happy to report that SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line, with an intermediary evaluation in 2021. This funding will allow us to continue our successful joint… Read More
Er hoffe auf “frische und unkonventionelle Herangehensweisen an Cybersicherheitsthemen, sagte Innenminister Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) am Mittwoch bei einem Pressegespräch in Wien zu dem vom Innenministerium gemeinsam mit dem Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich (KSÖ) und SBA Research veranstalteten Start-up-Wettbewerb Security Rockstars: “Start-ups stellen andere Überlegungen an, als etablierte Betriebe.” Noch rund zwei… Read More
Dimitris Simos is invited to the Graz University of Technology on 20 June 2016 to give a colloquium talk “Combinatorial Methods for Quality Assurance of Secure Software: Recent Results and Challenges Ahead” at the Institute for Software Technology in Graz. The Abstract can be found… Read More
Dimitris Simos joined the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Programme and will contribute to the software module testing group. The main goals of the programme are to research and identify best practices for crypto module testing as well as write specifications for automated testing.
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). ∞