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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.

Recent News:

Secure Connected Trustable Things (SCOTT) project kick-off

SBA Research joins the kick-off meeting of the SCOTT project in Graz, Austria on May 22-23, 2017. “Secure Connected Trustable Things” (SCOTT) brings together 57 partners from 12 countries (EU and Brazil) and from academia and industry alike. The SCOTT consortium will work in the next three years to… Read More

Dimitris Simos @ University of Bergamo

Dimitris Simos is invited to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo, Italy from May 22 to June 5 as visiting scholar. The host is Prof. Angelo Gargantini.

Christoph Kerschbaumer: Enforcing Security in Firefox

Web browsers were initially designed to retrieve resources on the world wide web in a static manner such that adding security checks in select locations throughout the codebase sufficiently provided the necessary security and privacy guarantees of the web. Instead of opting into security checks wherever resource loads are initiated… Read More

Paper accepted at USENIX Security 2017

Our paper ‘“I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” – On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS’ has been accepted for publication at the USENIX Security Symposium 2017, to take place in Vancouver this August. 85 out of 522 submissions (acceptance rate 16%) have been accepted. Kudos to Katharina and Willi!… Read More

Edgar Weippl gives a keynote at RCIS 2017

On May 11, Edgar Weippl talks about research challenges and research methods in applied information security at the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2017) in Brighton, UK. Read More

Modern Incident Response at CERT.at Stammtisch

CERT.at veranstaltet einmal pro Monat, jeden zweiten Mittwoch im Monat, einen “IT-Security Stammtisch” (Vortrag und anschliessendes Networken bei Speis und Trank im alten AKH). Im Mai haben wir Dr. Martin Schmiedecker (SBA) als Vortragenden gewinnen können. Titel: Moderne Incident Response Datum: 10.5.2017, 18:30 Ort: im Seminarraum des ZID, 1.Stock, Neues… Read More

Edgar Weippl on software security

Edgar Weippl presents insights on software security research at a workshop held today in Feldkirch, organized by Bachmann electronic GmbH. More information here… Read More