SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On April 21, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Dr. Edgar Weippl had his Inaugural lecture at the University of Vienna. (in German) Watch the full video of the Inaugural lecture here on Vimeo (in German) Title: Sicherheit und Datenschutz – Die Eckpfeiler Digitaler Transformation “Spätestens seit der Corona-Krise… Read More
The conference paper “Estimating (Miner) Extractable Value is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!” by Aljosha Judmayer, researcher at SBA Research was presented at the 3rd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) 2022 In Association with Financial Cryptography 2022. Title Estimating (Miner) Extractable Value is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!… Read More
Edgar Weippl co-organized the Dagstuhl seminar Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Systems Security from April 24 – 29 , 2022, at the distinguished Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. The Dagstuhl Seminar 22171 aimed to provide insights into the opportunities… Read More
Bernhard Schachenhofer received the annualy-presented “Diplomarbeitspreis der Stadt Wien” (Diploma award of the city of Vienna) for his diploma thesis On the Security of Proof-of-Stake Directed Acyclic Graph Protocols – A Simulation-Based Approach. His thesis was supervised by Dr. Edgar Weippl, Aljosha Judmayer and Philipp Schindler. The… Read More
On April 1, 2022, Tanja Šarčević held a talk at the Social Artificial Intelligence Night (SAINT) organized by FH St. Pölten. Title Ownership protection of data and machine learning models – Watermarking and Fingerprinting Abstract Outsourcing and shifting data storage and complex Machine Learning (ML)… Read More
From November 7 – 12, 2021, Simon Dejung, Mingyan Liu, Arndt Lüder and Edgar Weippl organized the Dagstuhl Seminar 21451 „Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks for Cyber Insurance“. The full report, edited by the organizers, is now available online. Title „Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks… Read More
Our hiking days are already a cherished tradition that started some years ago. Every few months we choose another Vienna hiking trail and every employee is warmly invited to join the event. Read More
Manuel Leithner, Michael Wagner, and Dimitris E. Simos from SBA’s MATRIS Research Group joined the 11th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2022) held in conjunction with ICST 2022, on Monday,… Read More
On April 4, 2022, a combinatorial testing (CT) tool competition was held for the first time at the premier workshop on CT, IWCT 2022, that evaluated the performance of tools capable of generating covering arrays (CAs), the principal mathematical structure used in CT. The… Read More
In February, SBA Research Professional Services went trough an Audit process for our Information Security Management System (ISMS) according to ISO/IEC 27001:2013. The audit was conducted by the OCG. 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. ∞