SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
In December 2024, the informatics faculty at TU Wien celebrated the faculty’s most outstanding students at the TU Wien Informatics Awards. The award ceremony recognizes outstanding achievements on all academic levels – Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral – and across all research areas at TU Wien Informatics. Read More
We are proud to share that Shecurity has been honored with the Women in Tech Community Initiative of the Year award for 2024 in December! ... Read More
meshmakers.io teamed up with the SBA to explore Gaia-X, a European initiative aimed at creating federated and secure data spaces. Leveraging their Octo Mesh platform, meshmakers.io optimises data from diverse sources, including machine data… Read More
On December 9, 2024, the “𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗧-𝗧𝗮𝗴“, inspiring women from the IT field dedicated their time to meet with thousands of enthusiastic high and middle school students across Austria. At SBA Research, we are incredibly proud to have supported this one-of-a-kind initiative from its early days,… Read More
Markus Klemen, CEO of SBA Research, participated in a high-level panel discussion during the FFG Community Day 2025, addressing “Strategic Challenges for Secure and Successful Research from Europe.” The panel delved into pressing issues surrounding research and development in today’s… Read More
Mathias Tausig, information security expert at SBA Research, gave an interesting talk on “The monster in your basement: Security risks of CI/CD systems” at both Continuous Lifecycle / ContainerConf 2024 in Mannheim and BSides Vienna 2024. ... Read More
Exploring LLMs to Support Test Processes OBJENTIS Software Integration GmbH teamed up with SBA to explore the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for translating natural language test cases into executable languages. Motivated by data protection requirements, the focus was placed on open… Read More
At the 35th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX’24), an event co-organized by TU Graz and Ben Gurion University, and sponsored by AIJ, Dimitris Simos gave a keynote titled “Combinatorial Methods beyond Testing: Optimizing Disaster Scenarios to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience”. In his keynote, Dimitris… 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. ∞