SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On June 6th, 2023, Anja Klauzer and Veronika Nowak participated in the TA|23, the annual conference of the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. They presented Anja’s work “Power Grid… Read More
On June 1, 2023, Florian Holzbauer and Gabriel Gegenhuber conducted a workshop at the IT-S Now conference titled “Dissecting the Unknown – How to Extend Wireshark with Lua.” The workshop aimed to delve into the intricacies of using… Read More
On the 24th of May the Social Artificial Intelligence Night (SAINT) took place again at FH St. Pölten and our colleague Anastasia Pustozerova had the pleasure to give a talk there with the title “Federated Learning – Present and Future of Privacy in AI”. Social Artificial Intelligence… Read More
Vienna is one of the largest university cities in the German-speaking world. Universities, universities of applied sciences, private universities and several private research institutions form a high concentration of knowledge. The ViSP was founded to bundle these capacities. The Vienna Cybersecurity and Privacy Research Cluster consists… Read More
On the 4th of May, Rudolf Mayer gives a talk on Security of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence at the Vienna Deep Learning Meetup. With machine learning increasingly being deployed within (semi-)autonomous systems and thus permeating our daily… Read More
Reinhard Kugler held the opening talk of this year’s Hagenberg Forum. He showed current challenges in the automotive domain and how to get started in security testing of electronic control units. Reinhard showed vulnerabilies and testing methods of automotive applications, focusing on… Read More
Im Exemplar des OCG Journals 01/23 durften einige Kolleg:innen der SBA Research mitwirken und ihre Forschung präsentieren. Edgar Weippl schrieb dabei über Österreichs IT-Nachwuchs. “Unbekannte Protokolle testen” hieß der Beitrag von Manuel Leithner. Die ehemalige FEMTech Praktikantin Diana Strauß schrieb während ihrer… Read More
This year’s (ISC)² ISACA Conference 2023 on the 20th of April was themed: “…imagine the problem of IT is solved…. “Real Life” approaches to solving the issue of resource and skills shortages” We were not able to solve… Read More
The “SBArathon” team, consisting of Martin Grottenthaler, Barbara Limbeck-Lilienau, Sebastian Schrittwieser and Fabian Funder took part in the relay race of the 40th Vienna City Marathon on 23 April. They… Read More
On Sunday, April 16, 2023, the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2023) was held co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. Angelo Gargantini (University… Read More
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). ∞