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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 @ 35th USENIX Security Symposium
12.08.2026 - 14.08.2026
ARES 2026
24.08.2026 - 27.08.2026
SHECURITY Summer School 2026
11.09.2026 - 13.09.2026

Recent News:

SBA Research at Diversity Event Focused on Engaging Men as Allies 

Our colleagues Gregor Roschitz (HR) and Jeanine Lefévre (Office of Equal Opportunities) participated in a high-level diversity event organized by CSR Circle, HR Circle, and the Diversity Think Tank in Vienna in mid-May. Both returned with valuable insights and practical new approaches that will help strengthen the ongoing diversity work at SBA Research.  Read More
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Best paper award @ CAIS 2026

Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab AsTra and Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor of Security at IT:U, received the Best Paper Award at the AgentSkills Workshop at the ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS 2026) in San José for their work Context Matters: Repository-Aware Security Analysis of the Agent Skill Ecosystem. Read More
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ERCIM Spring Meeting 2026

On 20–21 May 2026, SBA Research had the pleasure of hosting the ERCIM Spring Meeting at our offices in Vienna. Representatives from ERCIM member institutions across Europe came together for two days of exchange, strategic discussions, and collaborative planning focused on the future of European research in informatics and mathematics. Read More
Participants ERCIM Spring Meeting Dinner

SBA @ ESWC 2026

Our colleague Andreas Ekelhart, key researcher and Applied Research Lead at SBA Research and researcher at the Research Group Security & Privacy at University of Vienna,, presented his conference paper titled AgentO: An Ontology for Modeling Agentic AI Systems at the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Read More
Andreas Ekelhart presenting his paper

New article in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations

Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled “Fractals in Neural Networks: Introducing a New Class of Activation Functions” in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations in collaboration with the CD lab AsTra. Read More
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