SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
In Episode 147 of the Zukunft Denken – Podcast, Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, address this question under the title: “Digital Colony or Sovereignty?” ... Read More
We are delighted to congratulate Jeanine Lefèvre, our Head of Equal Opportunities Office, on successfully completing the part-time 'Diversity Facilitator' course. Offered by Integrationswerkstatt, the course covers important topics from diversity research in depth, including equal opportunities and anti-discrimination, foreign and human rights, media and digital skills, intercultural communication and conflict management, as well as methodology and didactics. ... Read More
Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled “Mean Reversion and Heavy Tails: Characterizing Time-Series Data Using Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Processes and Machine Learning” in MDPI’s Journal Sensors in collaboration with the CD lab AsTra. ... Read More
In January, the AIAGENT4CYBER consortium gathered in Vienna for a kick-off meeting that set the strategic and collaborative foundation for the years ahead. ... Read More
SBA Research was delighted to host Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during the past three months.
During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral worked on security-oriented test vector generation for rarely activated logic in digital circuits, a topic relevant to hardware security testing. She also prepared a state-of-the-art overview to support the next steps in this line of research. ... Read More
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... Read More
We warmly congratulate Prof. Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research, on her appointment to the Founding Professorship in Security at IT:U. ... Read More
At the end of January, our 1st OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup took place, featuring three excellent speaker sharing insights on LLM Security. ... Read More
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. ∞
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞