SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Christian Kudera (SBA Research) recently gave an interview on smart-lock systems to Kurier, in which he focuses on their functionality and security. Smart-lock systems use digital code as a key. They are locked and unlocked with the smartphone via app. Read… Read More
Congratulation to Kevin Mallinger (SBA Research) for having his journal paper published at the Anthropocene Review! As part of his interdisciplinary resilience research, Kevin is looking into social-ecological and technological systems and their links to anthropogenic activities. The global iron industry… Read More
Tomasz Miksa, SBA Research, presented the Research Data Alliance (RDA) recommendation on machine-actionable Data Management Plans (DMPs) at the latest the Science Europe Meeting. The recommendation was developed by… Read More
Wilfried Mayer & Gabriel Gegenhuber, both SBA Research, just started their new research project MobileAtlas – an international measurement platform for cellular networks that takes roaming measurements to the next level. Find out more about the project!
Philipp Schindler (SBA Research) will present our new paper at NDSS 2021 this year! RandRunner: Distributed Randomness from Trapdoor VDFs with Strong Uniqueness. Philipp Schindler, Aljosha Judmayer, and Markus Hittmeir (SBA Research); Nicholas Stifter (SBA Research, TU Wien); Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Universität Wien) Abstract: Generating randomness collectively has been… Read More
SBA Research is proud to be part of the ERA-NET consortium for the LivestockSense research project. Thomas Neubauer (Key Researcher at SBA Research) and Kevin Mallinger (Business Development Manager at SBA Research) are supporting the project to (1)… Read More
SBA Research is happy to announce that our Qualification Network training program on Secure Software Development has been granted by the FFG. Beyond Coding – Software-Entwicklung der Zukunft – focuses on two key competencies of software developers of the future (i) mastering the complexity… Read More
Christian Kudera (SBA Research) recently gave an interview on his research project AutoHoney(I)IoT to DiePresse, in which he focuses on IT-security related challenges arising from “Internet of Things” (IoT) and “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT) networks. Read the full article &… Read More
SecurityTwins – Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Threat Detection & Response – is a BRIDGE 1 Cooperative R&I project with three partner from academia and industry (Condignum, ENRAG and University of Vienna… Read More
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. ∞
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). ∞