SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
Neuron Automation offers modular and highly efficient automation solutions for the networked industry. They develop customized solutions for customers in industrial sectors such as machine and process automation, logistics, railroad equipment and robotics. A core product is a TÜV-certified development kit that supports engineering projects… Read More
Our MLDM team, in cooperation with Research Institute – Digital Human Rights Center, lead a specialist seminar addressing the pivotal security and legal concerns associated with artificial intelligence (AI). Read More
On February 25th we had our SBA Security Meetup @ Dynatrace in Vienna.
Catherine Easdon gave a talk on Security and Privacy by Design in the SDLC: Why, When, How?. She talked about security and privacy and why they are so important but tricky to get right. Read More
A new paper, “Systematization of Knowledge: The Design Space of Digital Payment Systems with Potential for CBD,” led by first author Judith Senn, research assistant at the University of Innsbruck, and co-authored by Aljosha Judmayer, researcher at the University of Vienna, Nicholas Stifter, researcher at SBA Research, ... ∞
Last week, our annual event for partners and friends of SBA Research, IMPACT, brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. The afternoon provided an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in security, AI, and innovation, celebrate our long-standing relationships, and mark 20 years of SBA Research’s contributions to cutting-edge cybersecurity and trustworthy digital innovation. ∞
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. ∞