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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:

We_0wn_Y0u got 2nd place at ENOWARS 4

In the online attack / defense CTF competition ENOWARS4, We_0wn_Y0u got the 2nd place out of 154 teams! A big thanks to ENOFLAG and TU Berlin for hosting the event! Congratulations to all members of… Read More

Philipp Schindler presents Work on HydRand at IEEE S&P 2020

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. For the first time, the 2020 Symposium took part as a full virtual conference. Despite the challenges… Read More

Brochure: Top-Level Research from Vienna

VRVis and SBA Research are the longest-standing COMET Centers in Vienna. For this brochure, the research institutions have joined forces to provide an insight into a total of 35 years of experience, successes and challenges of innovative top-level research from Austria. Brochure in English… Read More

Dimitris Simos appointed as Guest Researcher with US NIST

As of March 13, 2020, Dimitris Simos holds a Guest Researcher appointment with US NIST and is affiliated with the Applied Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of the Information Technology Lab (ITL) [1]. In his capacity as an off-site collaborator, Dimitris will further strengthen the ties between SBA’s MATRIS group [2]… Read More

Security Tips for Home Office

Stay secure during Home Office. Almost overnight, most companies had to severely limit physical access to their offices. As more and more employees start working from home, connecting to their company network infrastructure, security becomes an immediate concern. Keeping IT systems up and running has never been more important than… Read More

sec4dev 2020, was a great success! See you at sec4dev 2021!

A big thanks to all for participating in the sec4dev conference and bootcamp 2020! Due to the constantly growing number of participants at sec4dev and the great interest in our regular security MeetUps, we now reach more than 600 experts, and the trend is rising. Only through the… Read More

Johanna Ulrich becomes Key Researcher at SBA

Congratulations to Johanna Ulrich! Another female scientist who supports SBA Research as a Key Researcher. Her research interests include network security and cloud security, and raising awareness for security and privacy in traditional engineering. She received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and… Read More

Technology driven Resilience Workshop hosted by OCG and SBA Research

Deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, Victor Galaz, opened the session with a key note on the possible social-ecological benefits of AI. After the initial introduction of the topic by Alexander Schatten (Senior Consultant) and Kevin Mallinger (Business Development Manager), the interdisciplinary participants were encouraged to discuss technological approaches… Read More

We_0wn_Y0u CTF Team scores 9th Place at RuCTFE

We_0wn_Y0u, a CTF team comprised of SBA researchers and students/alumni of TU Wien, secured the 9th place at RuCTFE, out of almost 400 registered participants. This was made possible by the support of 40 students from the Capture the Flag SE LVA at TU Wien, despite RuCTFE being the first… Read More