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:

securepizza.club
05.11.2026
SBA @ heise CLC 26
10.11.2026
SBA @ KubeCon & CloudNativeCon
09.11.2026 - 12.11.2026

Recent News:

Tomasz Miksa @ EOSC Winter School 2026

Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, recently participated in the EOSC Winter School 2026, held from January 27–29 in Nice, France. He was presented the work on standardisation of maDMPs and was also moderating a session. ... Read More
Portrait of Tomasz Miksa

Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited

Dominique Schröder, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor of Privacy Enhancing Technologies at TU Wien published a new paper titled "Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited" which was presented at the 31st ASIACRYPT 2025 Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ... Read More
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Daryna Oliynyk @ ESSAI

At the end of November, our colleague Daryna Oliynyk, a researcher at SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, was invited to speak at the European Symposium on Security and AI (ESSAI) in Rennes, France. She presented the joint paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", co-authored with Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber. ... Read More
Selfportrait of Daryna at the event

Congratulations! MLDM colleagues qualified for the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship Finale

Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... Read More
MLDM winner with certificates

SBA Security Meetup Becomes Official OWASP Vienna Chapter

We are pleased to announce that the SBA Security Meetup is now officially operating as the OWASP Vienna Chapter. While the name has evolved, our mission remains unchanged: strengthening the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experience within the information security community. What started as the SBA… Read More
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