SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
the BEST summer school on information security starts at the Vienna University of Technology. All lectures are held by researchers and professionals from SBA.
In JR Center for „User-friendly Secure Mobile Environments“ deals with security aspects in current and future mobile applications – e.g., credit and debit card functionalities, cash transactions or (un)locking doors. Center director is Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. René Mayrhofer; the center located at the FH Oberösterreich. Company Partners are: A1 Telekom… Read More
An interview concerning social network security. Ö1 aired the interview in their daily journals on June 8th 2012. Listen to the interview here: OE1_Journal120608_Huber
SBA Research participated at the innovation panel “IT Security and Privacy”, organized by the City of Vienna! Articles about and photos of the event on the ZIT blog. … Read More
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). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞