Floragasse 7 – 5th floor, 1040 Vienna

SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
28.01.2026
Kubernetes Attack and Defense Wizardry with Stormcenter
03.03.2026 - 06.03.2026
OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
31.03.2026

Recent News:

OCG Förderpreis 2025 Awarded to Daryna Oliynyk!

In 2025, the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) once again recognizes outstanding academic work in the fields of Computer Science and Business Informatics with the OCG Förderpreis and the OCG Förderpreis-FH. This year’s OCG Förderpreis goes to our research colleague Daryna Oliynyk for… Read More
OCG Förderpreis 2025 Awarded to Daryna Oliynyk!

Rudolf Mayer @ dHealth 2025

Our colleague Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk at the 2025 dHealth conference organised in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria. ... Read More
Rudolf Mayer giving his talk

Kicking Off COMET SBA-K1 NGC

In early April, we held a company-wide internal kick-off for our SBA-K1 NGC – Next Generation Cybersecurity COMET program, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter for our research center. After months of preparation and collaboration, our team started the first COMET NGC phase, setting the stage for… Read More
Markus Klemen at kick-off SBA-K1 NGC

New Paper: Attackers Can Do Better

In April 2025, the paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", authored by Daryna Oliynyk, Rudolf Mayer, and Andreas Rauber, was presented at the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML). ... Read More
Daryna presenting her paper at the SaTML Conference

MATRIS at IWCT 2025

The MATRIS Research Group of SBA Research attended the 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2025) in Naples, Italy, the premier venue for research on combinatorial testing. The topics presented include algorithms for the construction of discrete mathematical objects and repositories thereof, novel applications of combinatorial testing including AI… Read More
Group photo of all participants on stage, behind workshop theme picture

Congratulations to our key researcher Johanna Ullrich!

We warmly congratulate Prof. Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research, on her appointment to the Professorship in Communication Technologies at the University of Vienna. Over the past years, Johanna Ullrich has gained a strong reputation for her outstanding research in network security, internet protocols, and critical infrastructures. Her… Read More
Johanna Ullrich potrait