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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:

SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
19.02.2026
SBA @ NDC Security
04.03.2026 - 05.03.2026
Kubernetes Attack and Defense Wizardry with Stormcenter
03.03.2026 - 06.03.2026

Recent News:

Thomas Konrad gives Talk at Angular Meetup on July 11

Thomas Konrad speaks about Webapp Security for JavaScript Frontend Engineers at the upcoming Angular Meetup. He will briefly cover the most important security topics that have touchpoints with frontend development: Same-Origin Policy (SOP), Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Content Security Policy (CSP), and Websocket Security. For each topic,… Read More

Martina Lindorfer appointed Key Researcher at SBA Research

Martina is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Security and Privacy Group at TU Wien. Her research focuses on systems security and privacy, with a special interest in static and dynamic malware and app analysis, as well as mobile system vulnerabilities. Find out more.
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Bernhard Garn @ Algebra Seminar TU Mathematics

Bernhard Garn (https://matris.sba-research.org/team/bgarn/) from SBA’s MaTRIS research group (https://matris.sba-research.org/) gave an invited talk titled “Algebraic Modelling of Covering Arrays” in the seminar of the algebra research group of the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry of TU Vienna. The talk focused on how algebraic techniques can be… Read More

SBA participates in Vienna Zoo Run 2019

A group of highly motivated SBA staff completed the 6K run all across the Vienna zoo on June 13, 2019. 50% of the application fees for the run will be donated to children suffering from pulmonary disease whilst the other 50% go into expansion of zoo infrastructure and animal… Read More

Stefan Jakoubi moderates Cyber Crime Forum Wien 2019

Real artificial intelligence and cyber crime – strong defense or mass destruction weapon? This year´s cyber crime forum targets prevention 4.0 and awareness trainings, risk management 2.0, blockchain technology, security by design, legal issues and many other topics. Agenda and Details

SBA sponsored the first Security related FreeBSD Hackathon

This weekend SBA Research sponsored the first security related FreeBSD Hackathon! FreeBSD hackers from seven countries met to harden FreeBSD, improve documentation and discuss new features. Beside that, attendees got to know each other better (i.e. matching IRC nick names to faces) and had a lot of fun!… Read More

Security Incident? Back to the Future please!

Stefan Jakoubi speaks about detection, response and recovery, common sense, regulations and standards at “Situational Awareness in IT – Compulsory or Secondary?” on June 26, 2019. Agenda and Details