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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:

SBA Research – securepizza.club – 2025
10.04.2025
SBA @ ISACA TrendTalks
08.05.2025
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
02.06.2025 - 04.06.2025

Recent News:

Matthias Eckhart wins 2023 ESA Technology Transfer Competition

Matthias Eckhart is one of the winners of the 2023 ESA Technology Transfer Competition, jointly organized by the European Space Agency and Brimatech Services GmbH. His technology transfer idea “AI-Enhanced Security-Aware Engineering for Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems” leverages synergies between machine learning-based… Read More
Matthias Eckhart winning the 2023 ESA Technology Transfer Competition

Matthias Eckhart received Critical Infrastructure Award

Matthias Eckhart, junior researcher at SBA Research, has received the Critical Infrastructure Award for his ongoing PhD thesis. This award recognizes his research contributions to the field of cyber-physical systems security. The Critical Infrastructure Award was awarded for the first time by the Austrian… Read More

Talk: LLM Prompt Injections Attacks and Mitigation Strategies

On November 20, Caroline Lawitschka took the stage at the “Vormittagsprogramm zur Eröffnung des NCC-AT” as part of the Women4Cyber initiative. Her talk, titled “LLM Prompt Injections Attacks and Mitigation Strategies,” addressed critical cybersecurity issues. The event, serving as the opening… Read More

CTF team We_0wn_Y0u at saarCTF

November 18, 2023, SBA Research participated in saarCTF with their CTF team We_0wn_Y0u. This CTF is organized annually by information security students and researchers from Saarland University, supported by the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. As one of the few… Read More
Capture the flag participants sit at table and solve the CTF

Mathias Tausig @Continuous Lifecycle & ContainerConf

On the 16th of November 2023, Mathias Tausig had the privilege of attending the Continuous Lifecycle & Container Conference organized by dpunkt/Heise. He also held a talk on “Sicherer Containerbetrieb mit Capabilities”. The event catered to practitioners in the realm… Read More
Continuous Lifecycle & ContainerConf Mathias Tausig

Gabriel Gegenhuber @GSMA FASG#27 Plenary

On the 7th of November, Gabriel Gegenhuber took the stage at the GSMA FASG#27 Plenary, showcasing his expertise in the dynamic field of mobile fraud and security. As an esteemed speaker, Gabriel presented an open-source framework for rapid distributed security testing and measurements, leveraging SIM tunneling technology. The… Read More

SBA @KIRAS Fachtagung

On October 24, 2023, the 13th KIRAS symposium took place, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). Anja Klauzer presented the project “Gesamtstaatliche Erfassung der Resilienz im Kontext komplexer Krisenszenarien“ (G-Star), as well as a respective poster. It… Read More

SBA @HaPoC

On the 20th of October, Caroline Lawitschka from the University of Vienna and Philip König of SBA Research, gave the talk titled “Empowering Intellectual Workers Through AI-Generated Content,” which was entirely composed by ChatGPT at the HaPoC 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. This provocative endeavor showcased the potential… Read More
SBA @HaPoC

SBA @ITSecx

On the 13th of October, Fabian Obermann presented the talk with the title “Lessons from the Past: Using Git History to Detect Software Aging and Code Weaknesses” at FH St. Pölten’s IT-Security Community Exchange (IT-SECX). This study, conducted in collaboration with Dennis Toth, Philip König and Alexander… Read More
SBA @ITSecx

Bernhard Garn @COST Action NERO

On Oct 17, 2023, Bernhard Garn joined as MC member of Austria the meeting MC1 of the COST Action NERO (CA22164 – european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr). Copyright: MATRIS This meeting marks the start of this COST Action, which focuses… Read More