SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
On September 28th, the final ACCSA simulation game took place online. The goal was to evaluate the Cyber-Crisis-Management exercise concept (CKM) including its methodologies developed as part of the ACCSA project. Two expert groups, consisting of ministry and stakeholder representatives, were able to practice an escalating cyber crisis scenario in… Read More
Walid Fdhila presents a joint work with Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (University of Vienna, Austria), David Knuplesch and Manfred Reichert (Ulm University, Germany) at the IEEE EDOC 2020 conference.IEEE EDOC 2020 is the twenty-fourth conference in a series that provides the key forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of… Read More
The 6th Euro S&P edition will be hosted by SBA Research, TU Wien and the University of Vienna on September 7-11, 2021 at the University Center Althanstraße. Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy,… Read More
Markus Klemen was part of the Security panel at this year´s DigitalDays. A group of experts from national corporations and politics discussed Security challenges, awareness and state of the art Security research. The intention of the session “Digital safety and crisis resistant city” was to establish a strategy… Read More
Nearly 10 years ago, the slogan of IT entrepreneur and founder of Netscape Marc Andreessen “Software eats the world” was born. He was right about one thing: software has become the digital nervous system of our modern society. There are no longer any areas of life – from running water… Read More
Michael has been working in application security for many years, but his commitment to the community goes well beyond his day-to-day work at SBA Research. ∞
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. ∞