SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The “Blockchain” hype of recent years increasingly attracts attention due to the financial aspects of Cryptocurrencies and raises interest in the opportunities offered by the underlying protocols. These technologies, commonly referred to as distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), cover several application areas. The increasing use of DLTs in both large enterprises… Read More
Thomas Konrad, Principal Security Consultant at SBA Research, was part of the 3rd edition of the WeAreDevelopers Live Week 2020. For 5 days, 30+ sessions consisting of hyper-focused coding sessions, hands-on workshops and live Q&A sessions were presented to the community… Read More
SBA Research and the Austrian Institute of Technology hosted the workshop “Cyber Resilience of Critical Infrastructures” during the CODE annual conference 2020 with around 60 participants. Resilience was specifically discussed in the context of hyperconnected software systems and what challenges and opportunities we face… Read More
Christian Kudera (PhD candidate at SBA Research) started his Industrial PhD research project beginning of December. AIM@IoT – Automated Identification of Security Threats and Malicious Activities in the Internet of Things – aims to collect IoT-relevant malicious empirical data, IoT-centric attack signatures, and IoT-specific technical threat intelligence. Through… Read More
Nicholas Stifter, SBA Research, wrote a great introductory article (in German) on Trust and Blockchains for the OCG magazine (Ausgabe 01-02, 2020). Read the full article here!
Austrian Flagship project IoT4CPS comes to an end after 3 yearsOver the last three years, the IoT4CPS project has addressed the challenges arising from the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in real industrial environments. Since in this context, in addition to cybersecurity issues, aspects of availability… Read More
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Gerald Sendera, data protection supervisor & legal counsel at SBA Research, moderated a Round Table at PriSec 2020 – Jahresforum für Privacy & Security – on the topic of Corona Prevention & Data Protection Limits. In the run-up to the event,… Read More
The European research project SCOTT – Secure Connected Trustable Things – with 59 key partners from 12 countries (incl. Brazil) focused on “trustable things that communicate securely”. The project provided comprehensive, cost-efficient solutions for wireless, end-to-end secure, trustable connectivity. The focus has been on vehicles, control systems and other things,… Read More
SBA and AIT are hosting the workshop “Cyber Resilience of Critical Infrastuctures” at the annual CODE conference of the Bundeswehr University Munich. Workshop – Details Keynote will be held by Victor Galaz (Deputy Director – Stockholm Resilience Center). All participants are… Read More
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ... ∞
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞