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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:

SBA becomes associated partner of the project “SENTER”

The “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime” project is funded by the European Commission under Internal Security Fund-Police 2014-2020 (ISFP). The main goal of the project is to create a single point of Reference for EU national Cybercrime Centres of Excellence and develop further the… Read More

SBA joins European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)

The general objective of the Association is to support all types of initiatives or projects that aim to develop, promote, encourage European cybersecurity. Yesterday, July 5th 2016, the cybersecurity contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) has been signed at the European Parliament of Strasbourg, in presence of the VP… Read More

Paper accepted @ ESORICS 2016

The paper “The Beauty or The Beast? Attacking Rate Limits of the Xen Hypervisor” by Johanna Ullrich and Edgar Weippl has been accepted for publication at the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) which takes place from September, 26th-30th, 2016 in… Read More

First (ISC)2 SecureAustria with 120 delegates

Today, the one-day conference (ISC)2 SecureAustria, focused on “Securing the virtual organization”, co-organized by the (ISC)2 Austria Chapter and co-hosted by T-Systems Austria & SBA Research was held for the very first time in Vienna. 120 delegates participated in the event, the day provided a diverse and broad range of topics ranging from… Read More

SBA-K1 has been granted – new research endeavor ahead

We are happy to report that SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line, with an intermediary evaluation in 2021. This funding will allow us to continue our successful joint… Read More

Press conference with Minister of Interior Wolfgang Sobotka, KSÖ and SBA: Security Rockstars

Er hoffe auf “frische und unkonventionelle Herangehensweisen an Cybersicherheitsthemen, sagte Innenminister Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) am Mittwoch bei einem Pressegespräch in Wien zu dem vom Innenministerium gemeinsam mit dem  Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich (KSÖ) und SBA Research veranstalteten Start-up-Wettbewerb Security Rockstars: “Start-ups stellen andere Überlegungen an, als etablierte Betriebe.” Noch rund zwei… Read More

How Bitcoin-users tick

Edgar Weippl and Aljosha Judmayr are talking about our study “The Other Side of the Coin: User Experiences with Bitcoin Security and Privacy”, which was published at Financial Crypto 2016. Read several articles about the topic here: futurezone.at, DerStandard.at, Wirtschaftsblatt, Krone.at, Wiener Zeitung,… Read More

Markus Klemen moderates the first LSZ Cyber Crime Forum

The first LSZ Cyber Crime Forum will take place on June 14, 2016 at Novomatic Forum, Vienna and deals with the question: “Cyber Crime – a CEO-topic!?!” Markus Klemen leads through the event. More details and the agenda can be found here.