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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:

SBA @ USENIX ATC ’25
09.07.2025
SHECURITY: Pizza & Conference Talks
17.07.2025
Threat Modeling Connect (TMC) Vienna Meetup – The Launch Event!
31.07.2025

Recent News:

(ISC)2 / ISACA Conference 2018 at TU Wien

Security & Safety: 2 schools of thought – 1 goal? The (ISC)2 / ISACA Conference hosted in TU Wien´s dome hall on October 11, 2018 counted a total of 170 participants and 9 talks contributing experience and knowledge from different fields. The agenda addressed… Read More

Edgar Weippl holds Keynote at SST

Edgar Weippl gave a keynote on Research Methods and Examples of Research in Distributed Systems Security at the SST 2018 in Osijek, Croatia. Abstract: Over the past few years an increasing number of descriptive works have helped explain complex phenomena in the area of distributed systems… Read More

Martina Lindorfer is awarded the 2018 Cor Baayen Award.

Martina Lindorfer was selected as the winner of the 2018 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. The award committee recognises Martina's impressive achievements and outstanding quality of her research in the field of systems security, especially the analysis of malicious software and mobile operating system vulnerabilities. The ceremony takes place on Oct 10 in Goteburg. Edgar Weippl was her supervisor and we are happy that after some time as a PostDoc at UC Santa Barbara she returns to Vienna on a tenure track position. Read More

Alexei Zamyatin at Scaling Bitcoins 2018

Alexei Zamyatin and Dominik Harz (Imperail College London) gave an invited talk entitled „Interoperability with Cryptocurrency-backed Tokens“ at Scaling Bitcoins 2018 in Tokyo. Slides Paper

NIST Grant awarded to MaTRIS research group

Computer data breaches cost companies millions of dollars each year. When combined with the damage leaks of private information do to consumers, the total cost of security issues is even greater. Many systems, including blockchains and Internet of Things systems, are created secure at the design level. However, mistakes in… Read More

SBA goes Strategy Meeting @ Europahaus Wien

In the course of a 2-day strategy meeting at the Europahaus Wien we intensively worked out new strategies and set future goals. In a great atmosphere we brainstormed in small groups and were provided with outlooks for anticipated development and projects. The stimulating yet relaxed off site setting enabled a… Read More

Outreach Activities – Volkshochschule

At the VHS Mariahilf Edgar Weippl gave a presentation ‘Vom Morris-Wurm bis WannaCry’ to offer the interested general public an insight into how information security evolved in the past decades. Read More