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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:

securepizza.club semester opening 2025
06.11.2025
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
18.11.2025 - 20.11.2025
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 2
26.11.2025 - 27.11.2025

Recent News:

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

Edgar Weippl at ENISA’s NIS Summer School

Edgar Weippl gives an invited talk at ENISA’s NIS Summer School 2018 in Heraklion. His talk is on Blockchains and Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Research. In addition, Edgar is on the panel on ‘Upcoming NIS Challenges from a European perspective’ representing the research view from the perspective of the presidency… Read More

Edgar Weippl Invited Talk on Blockchains at Cryptacus Conference

After Srdjan Capkun’s opening keynote on ‘Secure Positioning and Location-Based Security’ and Bart Preneel’s presentation on ‘Challenges for Embedded Cryptography’, Edgar Weippl gave his invited talk on “Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies – Hype & an Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research” at the Cryptacus Conference. Read More

Tomasz Miksa co-organised workshop on Domain specific extensions for machine-actionable Data Management Plans at the TPDL conference in Porto

The workshop entitled “Domain specific extensions for machine-actionable Data Management Plans” was held during the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries in Porto, Porugal. In the workshop participants focused on the common data model for machine-actionable DMPs and seek to identify which domain specific extensions must be implemented… Read More