SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
SBA’s Aljosha Judmayer presented two papers at this years 5th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (held in association with Financial Cryptography 2021). The videos are now available on the WTSC workshop YouTube Channel. Talk… Read More
Meet three of SBA Research’s inspiring female colleagues! Although still a minority, women have tenaciously worked their way back to the center of ICT. SBA Research is proud to be the professional home to distinguished female experts and promising young talent alike, while also partaking in a wider network of women… Read More
Markus Klemen (founder and managing director of SBA Research) held an impulse talk on Digital Sovereignty at a virtual workshop organized by the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. The Workshop focused on two aspects of the topic of… Read More
Philipp Schindler (SBA Research) presented SBA’s paper at NDSS 2021! Missed it? The video is now available on the NDSS YouTube channel. Also available online: the full paper, the… Read More
The third edition of the sec4dev conference & bootcamp was a big success! 300 attendees from 16 countries grabbed the opportunity to boost their security skills. The packed 4 day program included 3 bootcamps, 2 special sessions free… Read More
Modern container orchestrators like Kubernetes, Docker or LXC work like magic. We run a simple command or submit a declaration file and the system pops up the requested application – but what is happening behind the curtains? What Linux features are leveraged to create something we call a container? In… Read More
At today’s sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, Rudolf Mayer and Tanja Šarčević (both SBA Research) held a great talk on Adversarial Machine Learning, giving an overview on various attacks (backdoors, evasion, inference/inversion), and… Read More
Christian Kudera was selected as one of 15 NGI Explorers from a total of 130 applicants. NGI Explorers is the program to launch Europe’s best Internet talent into technology expeditions to the United States, catalyzing the impact of their disruptive… Read More
Yesterday evening, the sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, hosted the special event Women in IT – we are no Aliens! – with 50+participants including SBA’s Stephanie Jakoubi, Johanna Ullrich and… Read More
A new paper, “Systematization of Knowledge: The Design Space of Digital Payment Systems with Potential for CBD,” led by first author Judith Senn, research assistant at the University of Innsbruck, and co-authored by Aljosha Judmayer, researcher at the University of Vienna, Nicholas Stifter, researcher at SBA Research, ... ∞
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. ∞