SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA Research has proudly supported BSidesVienna as a Gold Sponsor for several years. We’re committed to fostering independent security research and collaboration within the cybersecurity community, and BSidesVienna is an excellent platform for advancing these goals. Read More
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. Read More
How can technology contribute to peace? And what responsibility do today's innovators carry?
Together with the PeaceTech Alliance and AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, SBA Research had the privilege of welcoming Hiroshima survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Setsuko Thurlow to Vienna for the event "Hiroshima's Message for Tech Students and Innovators Today." Read More
On June 23, David Schmidt successfully defended his dissertation, “Hidden Dangers: Uncovering Security and Privacy Risks Through Large-scale Mobile App Analysis,” and received excellent evaluations.
Edgar Weippl, Sebastian Schrittwieser, and Karen Azari supervised the dissertation, while Christopher Kruegel and Thijs van Ede served as reviewer. Read More
On June 19, SBA Research and its partner Condignum hosted the third edition of the sec4dev Dialogues event series.
Security for Software Developers is essential. The current threat landscape and security incidents in recent years make it clear: the topic is more relevant than ever. Read More
We are pleased to share that our colleague Walid Fdhila, senior researcher and team lead at SBA Research and senior researcher at the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Computer Science, will spend the next month as a guest professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques at Université de Tours, France. Read More
Ludwig Kampel attended the Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference (DAE) 2026, which took place from May 19 to 21, 2026, at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. Read More
SBA Research recently participated in the latest plenary meeting of the AIAGENT4CYBER project, hosted by ITCL Centro Tecnológico in Burgos, Spain. Read More
Kevin Mallinger, researcher at SBA Research, recently delivered a guest lecture on “Sustainable AI Applications” at Institut Agro Rennes-Angers in France. The lecture brought together students, researchers, and faculty members interested in the role of artificial intelligence in addressing sustainability challenges. 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. ∞