SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On June 19, SBA Research and its partner Condignum hosted the third 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. Read More
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
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. ∞