SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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 “Fractals in Neural Networks: Introducing a New Class of Activation Functions” in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations in collaboration with the CD lab AsTra. Read More
In April, our colleague Anastasia Pustozerova is researcher at SBA Research and has published a journal article titled “Lightweight Techniques for Federated Anomaly Detection in Log Data” in IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 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
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 Nitrogen Fertilization: Field Performance of an Amino-Acid-Based Fertilizer in Sessile Oak Reforestation ... 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 "Obfuscation Detection using Matrix Complexity Features of Binary Grayscale Images" in Elsevier's Journal Computers & Security ... 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 Classification of Obfuscation Techniques in LLVM IR: Machine Learning on Vector Representations in MDPI's journal Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. ... Read More
Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research and TU Vienna, published a paper in ACM Transactions on the Web titled You Shall Not Pass (Without Consent): Enforcing Data Sovereignty with Solid Pods. ... Read More
Our colleagues Georg Goldenits, and Thomas Neubauer published a new paper on Taxonomy of cybersecurity consideration in agriculture. This paper explores the key cybersecurity threats and reliability risks in Agriculture 4.0 by mapping potential faults and pitfalls to emerging digital technologies in farming. It also discusses countermeasures, legal frameworks,… 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 “Data Obfuscation for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Using Quantum Symmetry Properties” in MDPI’s Journal Big Data and Cognitive Computing ... 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 “Multi-Class Machine Learning to Quantify the Impact of Nitrogen Management Practices on Grassland Biomass” in MDPI’s Journal Nitrogen ... Read More
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). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞