SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
IKKRITI – Integral Consequence Analysis for Critical Infrastructures – is a KIRAS Cooperative R&I project with eight partners from academia, industry and government (led by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology.). Starting on November 1st, the project will develop a control instrument for users in the safety… Read More
Young Science offers Austrian schools a variety of opportunities to get in touch with research institutions and to cooperate with them. It provides information about events and networking opportunities and promotes cooperation between science and schools through several initiatives and projects. On the… Read More
The Austria Cyber Security Challenge was first launched in 2012. It is a non-profit, independent and non-partisan association with the goal of addressing cross-cutting security issues in the area of IT/cyber security of critical/strategic infrastructures in Austria. Through publications, lectures and project work, existing knowledge is networked and the awareness… Read More
Nicholas Stifter (PhD candidate at SBA Research) started his Industrial PhD research project at SBA Research in September. SmartDLP – Systematic Analysis and Assessment of Distributed Ledger Protocols and their Consensus Mechanisms – will focus on existing DLT protocol (DLP) designs and their respective consensus mechanisms, and provide… Read More
Containers under Linux go far beyond the well-known docker. The presentation explains how Linux ensures the security of containers and offers a crash course for the use of LXD-based containers. Afterwards, practical uses of these containers for developers, especially for reproducible development and test environments, will be discussed and the… Read More
The initiative WOMENinICT is a special interest group of VÖSI – Verband österreichischer Software Industrie. Its intention is to promote women in ICT. Also associated members shall function as role models and mentors for women interested in pursuing a career… Read More
SBA was part of the ADA speedmentoring at TU Wien in course of the EU Code Week. Johanna Ullrich and Stephanie Jakoubi shared their experience in ICT, education and day-to-day life in security with students. Website: https://www.ada.wien/speedmentoring/
The FFG project SESC – Secure Execution of Smart Contracts – focused on research addressing the emerging requirements for supporting the whole lifecycle of smart contract infrastructures that are based on distributed ledger technology. At the time this project started in 2017, many of the characteristics and security guarantees of blockchain technologies… Read More
Markus Hittmeir, Andreas Ekelhart and Rudolf Mayer contributed an article to the current issue of ERCIM News. You can read the full article on “Evaluation of Synthetic Data for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning” here.
The bilateral KIRAS project SmartIdentification – Confident Identification by using Mobile Remote Devices – focused on the use of existing data on smartphones to analyse trends in human trafficking routes and to identify individuals, especially unaccompanied minors. Starting in 2017, in the aftermath of the European migrant crisis 2015/2016,… Read More
The research on Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) by the MATRIS group of SBA Research is amongst the top five nominations for the Houska prize, Austria's largest private award for application-oriented research, in the category non-university research. ... ∞