SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleagues Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultat at SBA Research, and Mathias Tausig, information security consultant at SBA Research Research gave two insightful talks on ... Read More
On 10th of August, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Maximilian Günther, researcher at the University of Vienna, gave a talk on “Silent Signals: Exploiting Security and Privacy Side-Channels in End-to-End Encrypted Messengers” at the… Read More
In April 2025, the paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", authored by Daryna Oliynyk, Rudolf Mayer, and Andreas Rauber, was presented at the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML). ... Read More
This year’s Conference on the 15th of January was themed: Cyber Resilience und Artificial Intelligence and provided updates on innovations and developments in the areas of cyber resilience, artificial intelligence, compliance, and governance, while outlining potential impacts on companies and individuals. These topics affect nearly everyone, and the exchange of… Read More
Mathias Tausig, information security expert at SBA Research, gave an interesting talk on “The monster in your basement: Security risks of CI/CD systems” at both Continuous Lifecycle / ContainerConf 2024 in Mannheim and BSides Vienna 2024. ... Read More
On November 13th, Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave a very well received keynote on "Will AI save us from the software complexity trap?" at the Continuous Lifecycle / ContainerConf 2024 in Mannheim. ... Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 20th ICT Security Conference on 17 and 18 September 2024, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. They impressed the audience with their… Read More
The annual international IT security event, Troopers 2024, recently marked its 15th anniversary in the historic city of Heidelberg. This milestone event took place from the 24th until the 28th of June, bringing together security experts, researchers, and enthusiasts from around the globe to share cutting-edge developments in the field… Read More
On November 30, Tomasz Miksa presented a compelling talk with the title “More Automation, More Machine-Actionability: Less Bureaucracy,” at the Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo. Focusing on the escalating need for computing power in life sciences, Miksa highlighted the challenges of… 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). ∞