SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On December 9, 2024, the “𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗧-𝗧𝗮𝗴“, inspiring women from the IT field dedicated their time to meet with thousands of enthusiastic high and middle school students across Austria. At SBA Research, we are incredibly proud to have supported this one-of-a-kind initiative from its early days,… Read More
Markus Klemen, CEO of SBA Research, participated in a high-level panel discussion during the FFG Community Day 2025, addressing “Strategic Challenges for Secure and Successful Research from Europe.” The panel delved into pressing issues surrounding research and development in today’s… Read More
Mathias Tausig, information security expert at SBA Research, gave an interesting talk on “The monster in your basement: Security risks of CI/CD systems” at both Continuous Lifecycle / ContainerConf 2024 in Mannheim and BSides Vienna 2024. ... Read More
Exploring LLMs to Support Test Processes OBJENTIS Software Integration GmbH teamed up with SBA to explore the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for translating natural language test cases into executable languages. Motivated by data protection requirements, the focus was placed on open… Read More
At the 35th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX’24), an event co-organized by TU Graz and Ben Gurion University, and sponsored by AIJ, Dimitris Simos gave a keynote titled “Combinatorial Methods beyond Testing: Optimizing Disaster Scenarios to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience”. In his keynote, Dimitris… Read More
Johanna Ullrich participated in the panel discussion together with Christiane Ahlborn, (Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Trinity College Dublin), Jeanette Gorzala (Legal Expert for the EU AI Act & AI Governance and Member of the Austrian AI Advisory… Read More
On November 13th, Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave a very well received keynote on "Will AI save us from the software complexity trap?" at the Continuous Lifecycle / ContainerConf 2024 in Mannheim. ... Read More
Last Saturday, We_0wn_Y0u hosted students from the course “Attacks and Defenses in Computer Security”, which we hold jointly with the Security and Privacy research group at TU Wien at SBA Research to participate in the Bambi CTF, where… Read More
Luiza Corpaci, representing SBA’s CORE and CALGO, joined the 36th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS), held from October 30 to November 1 in London, UK. In the very first session of… Read More
Michael has been working in application security for many years, but his commitment to the community goes well beyond his day-to-day work at SBA Research. ∞
A new paper, “Systematization of Knowledge: The Design Space of Digital Payment Systems with Potential for CBD,” led by first author Judith Senn, research assistant at the University of Innsbruck, and co-authored by Aljosha Judmayer, researcher at the University of Vienna, Nicholas Stifter, researcher at SBA Research, ... ∞
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. ∞