Research

More information about our research can be found at appsec.at

Downloads

• AVRS - Emaluating AVR Microcontrollers for Reverse Engineering and Security Testing
• Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools
• Contactless Side Channel Based Disassembling - A time shift resilient machine learning approach
• Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Threat Detection and Response
• Enhancing Cyber Situational Awareness for Cyber-Physical Systems through Digital Twins
• Form hack to Elaborate Technique - A Survey on Binary Rewriting
• If HTTPS Were Secure, I Wouldn't Need 2FA - End User and Administrator Mental Models of HTTPS
• Implanting Security Features into Resource Constrained Embedded Systems
• On the Usability of Authenticity Checks for Hardware Security Tokens
• Securing the Testing Process for Industrial Automation Software
• Automated Emulation of IoT Device Firmware
• Automated Security Risk Identification Based on Engineering

The Systems & (I)IoT Security Research Group participates in the following research projects:

SBA-K1 NGC (FP1)

SBA Research Next Generation Cybersecurity

COMET | FFG | April 2025 - March 2029

Scientific Research for Technology Development and Knowledge Transfer in Cybersecurity, providing… Read More

SBA-K1 (FP2)

SBA Research - K1 (FP2)

COMET K1 | FFG | April 2021 - March 2025

For our second research period from 2021 – 2025, we have devised an ambitious work… Read More

ARMify

Auto-Identification of MCU Models to Simplify ARM Bare-Metal Reverse Engineering

NGI0 Entrust | NGI Initiative | April 2024 - March 2025

ARMify aims to become a plugin for the open-source reverse engineering tool Ghidra, with its… Read More

SecurityTwin

Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Threat Detection & Response

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | January 2021 - December 2023

The aim of the SecurityTwin project is to develop the fundamental methods for employing the… Read More

AIM@IoT

Automated Identification of Security Threats and Malicious Activities in the Internet of Things

Industrial PhD | FFG | December 2020 - November 2023

With regard to the Internet-of-Things (IoT), current research highlights the absence of methods for the… Read More

MobileAtlas

MobileAtlas

Internet Hardening Fund | NLNet | January 2021 - October 2022

MobileAtlas is an international measurement platform for cellular networks… Read More

AutoHoney(I)IoT

Automated Device Independent Honeypot Generation of IoT and Industrial IoT Devices

BRIDGE 1 Young Scientists | FFG | July 2019 - June 2022

The project goal is the development of a generic honeypot framework that automatically generates tailored… Read More

SBA-K1 (FP1)

SBA Research - K1 (FP1)

COMET K1 | FFG | April 2017 - March 2021

In our increasingly connected world – where almost all aspects of daily life depend on… Read More

ISIS consists of experts in the areas of in the areas of Internet of Things, firmware and hardware security, systems security as well as reverse engineering and software analysis.

Christian Kudera

is researcher at SBA Research.

Georg Merzdovnik

is senior researcher at SBA Research, leads the Systems and (I)IoT Security Research Group and is adjunct lecturer at TU Wien.

Michael Pucher

is researcher at SBA Research.

The following scientific partners and company partners are / have been working closely together with the Systems & (I)IoT Security Research Group:

Teaching

The Systems & (I)IoT Security Research Group is also very active in teaching subjects in their domain. At TU Wien ISIS is involved in teaching Attacks and Defenses in Computer Security together with E192 Institute of Logic and Computation.

At the University of Vienna we are involved in teaching and hosting the infrastructure for:

• Operating Systems
• Information Security
• Information Security Management
• Network Security
• Software Security
• Security and Privacy Engineering

Bachelor | Master | PhD - Thesis Supervision

The ISIS Research Group is supervising Bachelor, Master and PhD theses in the several areas, including:

• Internet of Things (IoT): Security and Privacy
• Reverse Engineering and Software Analysis
• Systems Security

For further information about the topics please check here or visit appsec.at for an in-detail overview of our research activities and topics.

To contact the team, please reach out to the individual team members or to the team lead Georg Merzdovnik.