SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
For over 25 years, Infraprotect has supported companies in the fields of crisis, emergency, risk, and security management, as well as crisis communication and R&D. The company provides tailored crisis management solutions to clients from a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, critical infrastructure, and public services. Read More
In 2025, the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) once again recognizes outstanding academic work in the fields of Computer Science and Business Informatics with the OCG Förderpreis and the OCG Förderpreis-FH. This year’s OCG Förderpreis goes to our research colleague Daryna Oliynyk for… Read More
In early April, we held a company-wide internal kick-off for our SBA-K1 NGC – Next Generation Cybersecurity COMET program, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter for our research center. After months of preparation and collaboration, our team started the first COMET NGC phase, setting the stage for… 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
Bluetooth Low Energy is one of the most widely used protocols used in Internet of Things (IoT) and multimedia devices. Security issues in these applications are prone to affect a significant number of end users and companies alike. In their latest work applying the Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) approach… Read More
The research on Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) by the MATRIS group of SBA Research is amongst the top five nominations for the Houska prize, Austria's largest private award for application-oriented research, in the category non-university research. ... Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research, and Andreas Ekelhart, part of the SBA management and key researcher at SBA Research, gave a presentation on "AI and Sustainability" for the AI Forum for Administration at the University of Vienna on April 16. ... Read More
The MATRIS Research Group of SBA Research attended the 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2025) in Naples, Italy, the premier venue for research on combinatorial testing. The topics presented include algorithms for the construction of discrete mathematical objects and repositories thereof, novel applications of combinatorial testing including AI… Read More
We warmly congratulate Prof. Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research, on her appointment to the Professorship in Communication Technologies at the University of Vienna. Over the past years, Johanna Ullrich has gained a strong reputation for her outstanding research in network security, internet protocols, and critical infrastructures. Her… Read More
Edgar Weippl, research director of SBA Research and full professor at the University of Vienna, recently visited the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo. He attended a master seminar led by Prof. Isao Echizen, who works on fake… Read More
The research on Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) by the MATRIS group of SBA Research is amongst the top five nominations for the Houska prize, Austria's largest private award for application-oriented research, in the category non-university research. ... ∞