Floragasse 7 – 5th floor, 1040 Vienna

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

Upcoming Events:

securepizza.club
05.11.2026
SBA @ heise CLC 26
10.11.2026
SBA @ KubeCon & CloudNativeCon
09.11.2026 - 12.11.2026

Recent News:

Ludwig Kampel successfully defended his Master Thesis

Ludwig successfully defended his Master Thesis “Combinatorial and Algorithmic Constructions of Covering Arrays” advised by Dimitris E. Simos,at the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation of TU Vienna. Ludwig gave an excellent presentation and graduated with distinction. Read More

Johanna Ullrich received promotional award by Dr. Maria Schaumayer foundation

Johanna Ullrich has received the promotional award by the Dr. Maria Schaumayer foundation for her promotion on “Secret Communication in the Internet” (finished in 2016). The foundation has been founded by the first female governor of a national bank Dr. Maria Schaumayer and supports women following their career path.

Cooperation between Trade Association and Austrian Blockchain Center

The ACB intends to function as the Austrian one stop shop for Blockchain related research and development projects. Together with TU Wien, WU, Universität Wien and RIAT, SBA Research is going to approach interdisciplinary research issues. Read more: Horizont.at Cash.at

A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! @ FC´18 Bitcoin Workshop

The paper “A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice” by Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl and William J. Knottenbelt, in cooperation with the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE), was presented at the 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain… Read More

Visit from Colleagues from Bergamo

On Friday, February 23, 2018, professor Angelo Gargantini and his student Marco Radavelli from Università di Bergamo visited SBA’s MATRIS group to discuss common interests in combinatorial testing and discrete mathematics.    … Read More
Visit from Colleagues from Bergamo

Security Considerations in ICOs

Edgar Weippl presents the technical perspective of security in ICOs at IRIS 2018 in Salzburg on Stefan Eder’s panel (E-Commerce – Währungen & Token Panel)… Read More

SBA supports ABC – Austrian Blockchain Center

true to our vision statement, being the crystallization point of security research in Austria, we support the proposal for a new K1 research center. SBA Research (Edgar Weippl) coordinates jointly with the University of Vienna (Stefanie Rinderle-Ma) the fundamental research activities in Area 2 “Cryptography, Technology & Security”. (ABC,… Read More

SBA @ Cyber Security Cluster Austria

National and international companies presented their cyber security related portfolios and discussed potential safety-solutions for energy infrastructure and smart cities. Among 21 other exhibitors, SBA Research introduced current projects and research. Quelle: APA ots. Read more: Cyber Security Cluster Austria präsentiert Sicherheitslösungen Cyber Security Cluster… Read More

IoT4CPS Public Kick-off

The public kick-off of the Austrian flagship project IoT4CPS took place at TU Vienna on February 1, 2018. After some welcome notes from Johannes Fröhlich (Vice Rector, TU Vienna), Helmut Leopold (Head of Center for Digital Safety and Security, AIT) and Andreas Eckel (Team Lead Grants, TTTech) we looked into… Read More