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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:

SBA @ ISACA TrendTalks
08.05.2025
Training: Application Security Essentials (Bundle)
02.06.2025 - 04.06.2025
SBA @ IDSF 2025
04.06.2025 - 06.06.2025

Recent News:

#12th Place at RuCTF Finals in Yekaterinburg for We_0wn_Y0u

Last Sunday, students and faculty of SBA Research and TU Wien participated in the 2017 RuCTF Finals competition held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as members of the team We_0wn_Y0u. Students are primarily recruited from our “(Advanced) Internet Security” lecture series which is taught together with the Secure Systems Lab of TU… Read More

Martin Schmiedecker becomes expert witness

Martin Schmiedecker passed the exam to become a certified expert witness for the judicial system, for the areas of digital forensics (68.62) and computer security (68.60). Congratulations!

ERCIM News 109 published

The ERCIM News No. 109 has just been published at with a special theme on “Autonomous Vehicles“. SBA Research contributes two articles in the “Research and Innovation” section of the issue. The first article is by Peter Kieseberg, Peter Frühwirt, and Sebastian Schrittwieser on “Security Testing for Mobile… Read More

SBA Research at the Security Forum

Members of SBA Research are at the Hagenberg IT Security Forum 2017. Peter Kieseberg will present about Security in Industry 4.0 and IoT. The description of his talk can be found here. See also the full agenda. Read More

Visit at ETH

Last Thursday, Katharina Krombholz visited Srdjan Capkun’s group at ETH Zurich and gave a talk on her research in usable security and privacy in the course of the ZISC lunch time seminar series. The abstract of her talk can be found here. Read More

SBA Research at Troopers’17

Numerous members of SBA Research are at TROOPERS17, happening this week in Heidelberg. You can find the agenda here. If you spot one of us, chat us up!

Project SESC started

The project “Secure Execution of Smart Contracts” (SESC) started on January 1, 2017. SESC is an R&D project supported by the BRIDGE 1 Programme of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The first project consortium meeting was hosted by SBA Research on March 21, 2017. SESC focuses on research… Read More