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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:

Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
18.11.2025 - 20.11.2025
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 2
26.11.2025 - 27.11.2025
Die IT-Tag
09.12.2025

Recent News:

LSZ IT-Security Cyber Lounge moderated by Stefan Jakoubi

Stefan Jakoubi will be moderating the IT-Security Cyber Lounge on November 4. Topic of the upcoming event will be third party cyber risk management with the KSV1870 cyber risk rating. The NIS law, the DSGVO or even the ECB oblige companies to set high standards for cyber security for their… Read More

Young Science Platform – SBA supports Austrian school project

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
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AustriaCyberSecurityChallenge – SBA among Partners

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
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SmartDLP – New Research Project starts at SBA

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
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//heise devSec ( ) Linux-Container jenseits von Docker by Mathias Tausig

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
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ADA speedmentoring at TU Wien

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/
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Bridge1 Project SESC – Research Venture on Smart Contracts

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
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