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
28.01.2026
Kubernetes Attack and Defense Wizardry with Stormcenter
03.03.2026 - 06.03.2026
OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
31.03.2026

Recent News:

Today is Safer Internet Day!

Today is Safer Internet Day! To support our partners and customers, we have compiled our Home Office top tips for employees and for organizations for keeping their IT infrastructure secure and available. Stay secure during Home Office! Security Tips for Home Office SBA Live Academy on YouTube:… Read More
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SBA Academy Blogpost – Introducing: The Security Champion

From Bad-Cop Culture to Sustainable Security Integration Since our entire working life runs on software, security is essential for almost every business operation; what is more, customer trust largely depends on whether security incidents happen and if so, how they are handled. To strongly root security in your company culture,… Read More
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USENIX 2021 – paper accepted

SBA’s paper “On the Usability of Authenticity Checks for Hardware Security Tokens” by Katharina Pfeffer, Alexandra Mai, Adrian Dabrowski, Matthias Gusenbauer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl, Michael… Read More
USENIX 2021 – paper accepted

Digital Twins for CPS Security – new Dagstuhl Seminar granted

Edgar Weippl (SBA Research) co-organizes a new Dagstuhl seminar Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Systems Security at the distinguished Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. This Dagstuhl seminar aims to provide insights into the opportunities and limitations of the digital-twin concept for CPS… Read More
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Smart-lock systems – how secure are they?

Christian Kudera (SBA Research) recently gave an interview on smart-lock systems to Kurier, in which he focuses on their functionality and security. Smart-lock systems use digital code as a key. They are locked and unlocked with the smartphone via app. Read… Read More
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The Anthropocene Review – new journal article published

Congratulation to Kevin Mallinger (SBA Research) for having his journal paper published at the Anthropocene Review! As part of his interdisciplinary resilience research, Kevin is looking into social-ecological and technological systems and their links to anthropogenic activities. The global iron industry… Read More
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MobileAtlas – A Scalable Way to Measure Cellular Networks

Wilfried Mayer & Gabriel Gegenhuber, both SBA Research, just started their new research project MobileAtlas – an international measurement platform for cellular networks that takes roaming measurements to the next level. Find out more about the project!
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NDSS 2021 – paper accepted

Philipp Schindler (SBA Research) will present our new paper at NDSS 2021 this year! RandRunner: Distributed Randomness from Trapdoor VDFs with Strong Uniqueness. Philipp Schindler, Aljosha Judmayer, and Markus Hittmeir (SBA Research); Nicholas Stifter (SBA Research, TU Wien); Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Universität Wien) Abstract: Generating randomness collectively has been… Read More
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