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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

Machine Learning – Security, Privacy & Legal Aspects
12.03.2026
OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
31.03.2026
SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
25.04.2026

Recent News:

CISA Project on Situational Awareness started

The project CISA represents a consistent fusion of existing research activities in the field of national cyber security, in order to develop a process to establish cyber-situational awareness within a scientifically sound concept. The researchers in the CISA project will work in close cooperation with national stakeholders to create a… Read More

SBA Research @ IT Sec-X

SBA Research was presented at the IT Sec-X, the annual security exchange event of the FH St. Pölten, which took place on November 6th 2015.  Wilfried Mayer gave a talk about Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large and Peter Kieseberg takled about “Directions in Database Forensics”. Philipp Reisinger presented his study about information security in Germany,… Read More

Start Ups im Bootcamp

Die fünf Finalisten des Wettbewerbs Start Secure 2015 haben sich in den letzten Tagen bei einem dreitägigen Bootcamp auf ihren entscheidenden Pich vor der Jury vorbereitet. Der Pitch vor einer prominent besetzten Jury ging am letzten Tag der Workshop-Reihe über die Bühne, der Öffentlichkeit werden die… Read More

Johanna Ullrich @ RAID 2015

Johanna presented her paper “Privacy is Not an Option: Attacking the IPv6 Privacy Extension” at the 18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses. RAID 2015 took place from November, 2nd – 4th, 2015 in Kyoto, Japan. RAID is ranked as A conference in CORE. Read More

Start Secure 2015 – die Finalisten

Die TOP 5 des Ideenwettbewerbs “Start Secure 2015”, welcher von SBA Research, dem Bundesministerium für Inneres, der futurezone sowie dem Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich in den letzten Wochen veranstaltet wurde, stehen fest: TOP 5 in der Futurezone Die Start-ups werden ihre Ideen und Konzepte im Rahmen der Veranstaltung “Start… Read More

Paper accepted @ Euro S&P 2016

Our paper titled “NavigaTor: Finding Faster Paths to Anonymity” has been accepted for publication at Euro S&P 2016. 29 out of 168 submissions were accepted, 17% acceptance rate. The 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy will be held on March 21-24, 2016 in Saarbrücken, Germany. From the abstract: In this… Read More

Peter Kieseberg @ 5th KIRAS Fachtagung

Today Peter Kieseberg (SBA Research) presented the results of the SCUDO-Project together with Alexander Szönyi (Thales Austria) and Wolfgang Rosenkranz (Repuco) at the 5th “KIRAS Fachtagung” in the Austria Trend Hotel Savoyen Vienna. This project was focused on the development of a training process for defence simulation trainings in the area of… Read More

Aaron Zauner @ RTR Workshop

Aaron Zauner presents the results of Internet-wide scans, that SBA has conducted to assess the current status of e-mail security, during the RTR Workshop on 5th November 2015. The program can be found here.

Dimitris Simos @ ISSRE 2015

Dimitris Simos gives a talk on November, 3rd about ” Exciting FPGA Cryptographic Trojans using Combinatorial Testing”, joint work with Paris Kitsos (TEI of Western Greece), Dimitris. E. Simos (SBA Researh), Jose Torres-Jimenez (CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas) and Artemios Voyiatzis (SBA Research). ISSRE 2015 takes place from November 2nd to November… Read More