SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
A whole delegation of SBA Research folks participated in the IT-SECX 2019 conference on Friday, November 9, 2019 at the FH St. Pölten. Johanna Ullrich spoke about Monocultures and Diversity in IT, while Reinhard Kugler and Andreas Bernauer gave a talk on Vertrauen ist gut, Pentests sind besser: Sicherheitsprobleme in Active… Read More
SBA supports the organization of the Mozilla Security Research Summit on November 8, 2019. The event will be hosted as part of Mozilla’s Security Engineering University Relationship Framework (SURF) initiative. In addition to Mozilla engineers discussing current research problems, the day will also include some high-caliber talks from security… Read More
Martina Lindorfer has been awarded the Hedy Lamarr price for her research in the field of automatic malware detection. As a professor at TU Wien she hopes to inspire girls to pursue a career in the field of IT Security. The city of Vienna awards women in the area of… Read More
Rudolf Mayer is representing the EU H2020 project FeatureCloud and SBA Research at the Security Research Event 2019 in Helsinki, Finland, co-organized by the European Commission and the Ministry of the Interior in Finland as a side event of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union (https://www.sre2019.eu). Read More
New Technologies, new companies and new challenges in the digital world. At the DiDays SBA Research highlights the importance of a holistic security approach and the imminent role of security in a world of digitalization. Explaining interested children and visitors the role of IT, logical thinking and the necessity of… Read More
Edgar Weippl was invited as a guest at the Barbara Karlich Show, talking about security & privacy! https://buff.ly/2orx8H9 (Talk Edgar Weippl ~30 minutes)… Read More
Andreas Boll and Tobias Fink (WE_OWN_YOU) secured the third place (local) and 15th place (overall) at the hack.lu.CTF. Many thanks to the CTF team and most importantly the CTF LVA students from TU Wien. Hack.lu is an open convention/conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology… Read More
Research Data Alliance 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and from all disciplines under the theme Data Makes the Difference. Tomasz Miksa chaired a session of the DMP Common Standards working group. He… Read More
Stefan Jakoubi gives a talk at the annual IT-LAW.AT symposium on November 28, 2019. This year´s event will circle around trade secrets vs. transparency, security, espionage and GDPR. Read more
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