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

Upcoming Events:

First SHECURITY Masterclass is out!
04.07.2026
Security Afterworks
09.07.2026
OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
23.07.2026

Recent News:

Joint NIST SBA Combinatorial Testing Research Achievements featured in Security Now Podcast

Episode 712 @ 41:53 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_FoFZot50&t=2513) of “Security Now” podcast by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte featured the recent joint research achievements of NIST and SBA Research on Combinatorial Testing (CT), which have been officially been announced at https://www.sba-research.org/2019/05/02/combinatorial-testing-methods-can-increase-confidence-in-high-risk-software/ Steve highlights the recently achieved results not only as… Read More

Twitter: Emotion Exchange Motifs

Mark Strembeck, key researcher at SBA Research, and his team analyzed data of over 1.3 million anonymized twitter users. They found that social bots cannot be detected in Twitter communication. Full paper here.
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Ludwig Kampel @ LION13

Ludwig Kampel joined the 13th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION13), a conference aiming to explore the intersections and unknown territories between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. On the first day of the conference Ludwig presented the paper “How to use Boltzmann Machines… Read More

Johanna Ullrich in ORF interview on power grid attacks

Senior researcher Johanna Ullrich has been interviewed by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF). In the TV show Eco, she explained how smart devices like fridges, heating and air condition have the potential to cause power grid blackouts in a concerted fashion. The show can be watched in ORF’s TVthek by Thursday. Read More

IMPACT 2019

Artificial Intelligence – certainly one of the most hyped topics of our time– will be at the heart of this year´s event. In this connection we are proud to announce a keynote of writer Karl Olsberg on “Artificial Intelligence and Human Stupidity”. The subsequent plenary discussion will pick up on… Read More

SBA gives Awareness Talks @ TGM

Smart & Secure “How does the internet work, which potential risks am I facing and how can I avert threats?”SBA was invited to point out the most common security issues in the course of the security awareness initiative at TGM. The permanent accessibility of internet via smartphones comes with… Read More

SBA is Partner of the Austria Cyber Security Challenge 2019

The Austrian Cyber Security chapter and the Counter Intelligence Office are inviting young IT talents to apply for this year´s challenge. The competition strives to spot talents at an early stage, to point out perspectives and support careers in the field of IT security. Last year over 600 participants showed… Read More