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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:

Hiroshima’s Message for Tech Students and Innovators Today
16.06.2026
SBA @ OWASP AppSec EU
25.06.2026 - 26.06.2026
Code. Protect. Empower. – Cyber Security for Female Students
26.06.2026 - 27.06.2026

Recent News:

SBA @Young Digital Law 2023

On July 6, the 3rd Conference of the Research Network Young Digital Law took place, which was co-organized by the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, the Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices, and the Research Group Security and Privacy at the University of Vienna. Read More
SBA @Young Digital Law 2023

Plenary Talk @DoD 2023

On the 5th of July, Dimitris Simos gave a plenary talk on “Disaster scenarios with discrete sequences: Using combinatorics for enhanced disaster preparedness” at the 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters (DoD 2023). Klaus Kieseberg and… Read More
Plenary Talk @DoD 2023

On the Applicability of Quantum Machine Learning

This article shows the applicability of both classical and quantum machine learning algorithms on several data sets. Here, the authors developed one of the data sets based on quantum mechanical symmetry properties. The results show that classical machine learning algorithms still perform best in terms of accuracy and runtime, even… Read More

Professor Lucia Moura visited MATRIS Research Group

Professor Lucia Moura from the University of Ottawa, Canada, visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days focusing on research discussion and mutual exchange, from the 29th-30th of June 2023. Prof. Moura is a distinguished researcher in the… Read More
Professor Lucia Moura visited MATRIS Research Group

SBA @Troopers 2023

On June 29, Martin Grottenthaler attended the Troopers conference in Heidelberg to present on vulnerabilities in Windows environments. The two-and-a-half-day conference featured talks on attack and defense strategies, Active Directory/Windows, and several other general topics. The keynote address was delivered by Mikko… Read More

Johanna Ullrich on Radio Ö1

On national radio, our key researcher Dr. Johanna Ullrich discussed the topic of state observation, its legal and technical implications together with Dr. Christof Tschohl, Scientific Director of Centre for Digital Human Rights. The recording of the live show is available here: https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20230628/723315/Sicherheit-durch-Ueberwachung-Sicherheit-vor-Ueberwachung

ERIS @TMA Conference

On June 26, the ERIS Team had the opportunity of attending the TMA Conference. Johanna Ullrich served as the TPC chair, ensuring a well-organized and fruitful event. During the conference, Markus Maier, Gabriel… Read More
ERIS @TMA Conference

Simin Ghesmati @Monerokon 2023

On the 23rd of June the Monerokon took place again and our colleague Simin Ghesmati had the pleasure to give a talk there. The Monero Konferenco is an annual gathering that attracts privacy advocates, scientists, and philosophers from around the world. This event is purposefully designed to disseminate… Read More
Simin Ghesmati @Monerokon 2023