SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Walid Fdhila and Nicholas Stifter (both SBA Research) presented their study results at the 32nd IIW Internet Identity workshop, which gathered experts and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss and debate identity issues. Jointly with their… Read More
The Research Data Alliance 17th Plenary in Edinburg virtually brought together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and from all disciplines under the theme Opening data for global challenges. Tomasz Miksa (SBA Research) chaired a session of the … Read More
SBA Research joined AustrianStartups as supporting partner. We will provide expertise in the fields of Privacy, Data Protection and Security by offering talks, trainings and mentoring. We are looking forward to exciting new collaborations within the growing start up community in Austria and to establishing ourselves as a contact point… Read More
Watch our latest Security Meetup Risikowahrnehmung und menschliche (Ir)Rationalität on YouTube! Philipp Reisinger (security consultant at SBA Research) talks about some of the lesser known – and often ignored – factors that influence one’s own risk perception. As humans, we… Read More
In this episode of the podcast Zukunft Denken, Alexander Schatten talked with Philipp Reisinger about the role of software in modern society. Philipp is an expert for organizational information security consulting at SBA Research, holds certification preparation trainings,… Read More
In the 17th episode of the LSZ webinar series on April 13, Stefan Jakoubi talked with Jörg Schauff (CrowdStrike’s Threat Intel expert) about the “CrowdStrike Global Threat Report” as well as Walter Feichtinger (President of the Center for Strategic Analysis CSA) gave interesting insights on the topic… Read More
Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos from SBA’s MATRIS research group joined the 10th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2021) on Monday, April 12, 2021, in a virtual setting. Dimitris served as the general chair… Read More
SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line. The first four years of our current COMET period (2017 – 2021) have been tremendously successful. We were able to… Read More
Despite being held online-only, this year’s General Assembly of the H2020 project Feature Cloud was a great success and helped to move the project forward, discussing open issues and setting next goals. SBA Research chaired two sessions on work packages we are leading: WP:… Read More
Watch Stefan Jakoubi and Thomas Konrad (both SBA Research) on “I am a hacker” – expert tips for parents to encourage their children’s digital curiosity. The story is featured in the E-MINT app, recently released by the… Read More
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). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞