SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On June 17, SBA Research and its partner Condignum hosted the second edition of the sec4dev Dialogues event series. Security for Software Developers is essential. The current threat landscape and security incidents in recent years make it clear: the topic is more relevant than ever. This… Read More
We would like to thank all participants, sponsors, and speakers for their active participation and exchange at this year's sec4dev Dialogues! Under the motto "Security for Software Developers" there were six exciting talks on: Read More
The third edition of the sec4dev conference & bootcamp was a big success! 300 attendees from 16 countries grabbed the opportunity to boost their security skills. The packed 4 day program included 3 bootcamps, 2 special sessions free… Read More
Modern container orchestrators like Kubernetes, Docker or LXC work like magic. We run a simple command or submit a declaration file and the system pops up the requested application – but what is happening behind the curtains? What Linux features are leveraged to create something we call a container? In… Read More
At today’s sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, Rudolf Mayer and Tanja Šarčević (both SBA Research) held a great talk on Adversarial Machine Learning, giving an overview on various attacks (backdoors, evasion, inference/inversion), and… Read More
Yesterday evening, the sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, hosted the special event Women in IT – we are no Aliens! – with 50+participants including SBA’s Stephanie Jakoubi, Johanna Ullrich and… Read More
45+ participants joined this year’s sec4dev Bootcamps! Mathias Tausig and Martin Grottenthaler (both SBA Research) gave an overview on the most widely used cloud services and their specific security threats and best practices during their Hands-on AWS Cloud Security Bootcamp,… Read More
Today, 170 participants attended the Software Security 101: Secure Coding Basics Session at sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp! Thomas Konrad (SBA Research) held the 3-hour training on the basics of secure coding giving a good overview… Read More
Made for the makers!The 2021 edition of the sec4dev conference (22-25 Feb´21) starts today with 300+ participants! It comes with numerous exciting topics and special sessions covering application security, security testing & automation, cloud & container, machine learning & AI security and much more. As an additional… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞