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:

Hiroshima’s Message for Tech Students and Innovators Today
16.06.2026
sec4dev Dialogues 2026
18.06.2026
SBA @ OWASP AppSec EU
25.06.2026 - 26.06.2026

Recent News:

Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber on reproducible data and privacy at the Horizon 2020 EU project meeting MyHealthMyData in Geneva, Switzerland

The Horizon 2020 project MyHealthMyData empowers patients, as the primary owner of their health data, to share this data in a secure and privacy-protecting manner with external parties, such as researchers or the pharmaceutical industry. A meeting dedicated to discuss the technical aspects of the implementation takes place in Geneva,… Read More

SecWIT Kick Off Meeting

The kick off meeting of the FFG BRIDGE 1 project SecWIT (Securing Web Technologies with Combinatorial Interaction Testing) took place on November 10th, 2017 at SBA Research. The goals of SecWIT include the creation of attack models for generalized content injections, development of new oracles, and research on… Read More

Stefanie Plieschnegger @ BMVIT Technolution Herbstkongress

On 24th October the “Technolution – Herbstkongress” (Technolution – autumn congress) took place at the technical museum in Vienna. The event was promoting education and professions in the technical and research area, targeting students in middle and high school with a special focus on girls and women in technology. Part… Read More

Markus Klemen at FEMtech network meeting

Markus Klemen speaks at the FEMtech network meeting about flexible working hours, female role models and the possibilities of part-time work in leading positions. More information about the meeting can be found here. (in german) Pictures: (c) www.annarauchenberger.com… Read More

Blockchain Research at SBA

We have a large group working on cryptocurrencies, block chain, and distributed ledger technology. Recent publications include our user experience study (The other side of the coin) and our book Blocks & Chains. You can also watch our CCS tutorial on youtube. Our current projects explore… Read More

Tomasz Miksa on machine-actionable DMPs at the FORCE2017 Conference in Berlin

Tomasz Miksa co-organized a session on Changing the Culture of Data Management Plans: making DMPs machine-actionable and FAIR at the FORCE2017 Conference in Berlin, Germany. The FORCE2017 Research Communication and e-Scholarship Conference brought together a diverse group of people interested in changing the way in which scholarly and scientific information… Read More

ISWC 2017 co-organized by SBA Research

SBA Research co-organized the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) together with TU Wien and WU Wien. ISWC 2017 took place from October 21 – 25, 2017 at WU Campus and Messe Wien. We welcomed more than 550 participants!… Read More

Tomasz Miksa on reproducibility of computational workflows at the ISWC17

Tomasz Miksa presented his paper entitled “Using ontologies for verification and validation of workflow-based experiments” in the journal track of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC17) which is held 21 – 25 October in Vienna, Austria. The paper discusses how to ensure trust in results of computational workflows by documenting… Read More

Tomasz Miksa on Data Management Plans in the Horizon 2020 at the FFG

Tomasz Miksa delivered a webinar on Data Management Plans in the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Commission. The webinar was organised by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) which is the national contact point for the Horizon 2020. The webinar had a wide appeal and brought both practitioners… Read More