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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.

Upcoming Events:

SHECURITY – Introduction to Security degree programs in Austria
27.01.2026
OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
28.01.2026
SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
19.02.2026

Recent News:

New paper from Tomasz Miksa published by the Data Science Journal

The paper Application Profile for Machine-Actionable Data Management Plans is a great summary of work made by the RDA DMP Common Standards working group, chaired by Tomasz Miksa, Senior Researcher at SBA Research. It describes the methodology to develop the common standard for machine-actionable Data Management Plans and presents existing adoptions of the recommendation. Read More

Online Talk: Let’s make our data FAIR!

On October 19th Tomasz Miksa held an online talk for 75 participants about how to make data FAIR. The talk was part of the event series “Research Data Management in Austria” which is aimed at researchers and / or people involved in research support and serves… Read More

eAward 2021 Winner: Cyber Security Quiz

SBA Research is partner of ovos play and was involved in the development of the free Cyber Security Quiz with the aim of promoting digital competencies in the field of cyber security. On October 18th this Cyber Security Quiz won the eAward 2021 in the category “Education and… Read More
eAward 2021 Winner: Cyber Security Quiz

(ISC)2 / ISACA Conference 2021 at TU Wien

After a long pause with just-online-events it was a pleasure to once again organize the (ISC)2 / ISACA Conference on October 5, 2021 as a live event. Hosted in TU Wien´s wonderful TUtheSky Conference Room with a great view over Vienna we had 100 participants, 10 very interesting talks, a… Read More
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//heise devSec conference with Mathias Tausig

At the //heise devSec conference on October 6-7, 2021 Mathias Tausig gave an online-workshop about “Hands-On Threat Modeling” for 18 participants and a talk (online) to 60 participants concerning the topic: “Reifegradbewertung für TechnikerInnen oder wie ich lernte OWASP SAMM zu lieben”. heise devSec is a conference with… Read More
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PriSec 2021

This year’s PriSec conference took place from October 05.-06. in Rust am Neusiedlersee. Gerald Sendera held a talk about interface documentation (“Schnittstellendokumentation? TLDR *lol*”) to 40 participants. PriSec combines the topics of information security and data protection in the company: In the future, this growing area of… Read More