Floragasse 7 – 5th floor, 1040 Vienna

SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
19.11.2026
SheLeadsTech & Shecurity Event
20.11.2026
Future IT Day
09.12.2026

Recent News:

SBA @ITS-Now

On June 1, 2023, Florian Holzbauer and Gabriel Gegenhuber conducted a workshop at the IT-S Now conference titled “Dissecting the Unknown – How to Extend Wireshark with Lua.” The workshop aimed to delve into the intricacies of using… Read More
SBA @ITS-Now

SBA @SAINT

On the 24th of May the Social Artificial Intelligence Night (SAINT) took place again at FH St. Pölten and our colleague Anastasia Pustozerova had the pleasure to give a talk there with the title “Federated Learning – Present and Future of Privacy in AI”. Social Artificial Intelligence… Read More

Article: “In Wien wird die IT-Sicherheit menschlich gemacht”

Vienna is one of the largest university cities in the German-speaking world. Universities, universities of applied sciences, private universities and several private research institutions form a high concentration of knowledge. The ViSP was founded to bundle these capacities. The Vienna Cybersecurity and Privacy Research Cluster consists… Read More
Article: “In Wien wird die IT-Sicherheit menschlich gemacht”

Rudolf Mayer @Vienna Deep Learning MeetUp

On the 4th of May, Rudolf Mayer gives a talk on Security of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence at the Vienna Deep Learning Meetup. With machine learning increasingly being deployed within (semi-)autonomous systems and thus permeating our daily… Read More

SBA @Hagenberg Security Forum

Reinhard Kugler held the opening talk of this year’s Hagenberg Forum. He showed current challenges in the automotive domain and how to get started in security testing of electronic control units. Reinhard showed vulnerabilies and testing methods of automotive applications, focusing on… Read More
SBA @Hagenberg Security Forum

IT Nachwuchsforschung in Österreich – OCG Journal

Im Exemplar des OCG Journals 01/23 durften einige Kolleg:innen der SBA Research mitwirken und ihre Forschung präsentieren. Edgar Weippl schrieb dabei über Österreichs IT-Nachwuchs. “Unbekannte Protokolle testen” hieß der Beitrag von Manuel Leithner. Die ehemalige FEMTech Praktikantin Diana Strauß schrieb während ihrer… Read More
IT Nachwuchsforschung in Österreich – OCG Journal

(ISC)² / ISACA Conference

This year’s (ISC)² ISACA Conference 2023 on the 20th of April was themed: “…imagine the problem of IT is solved…. “Real Life” approaches to solving the issue of resource and skills shortages” We were not able to solve… Read More
(ISC)² / ISACA Conference

SBA @40th Vienna City Marathon

The “SBArathon” team, consisting of Martin Grottenthaler, Barbara Limbeck-Lilienau, Sebastian Schrittwieser and Fabian Funder took part in the relay race of the 40th Vienna City Marathon on 23 April. They… Read More
SBA @40th Vienna City Marathon

MATRIS @The International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing

On Sunday, April 16, 2023, the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2023) was held co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. Angelo Gargantini (University… Read More
MATRIS @The International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing