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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 Research – securepizza.club – 2025
10.04.2025
SBA @ ISACA TrendTalks
08.05.2025
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
02.06.2025 - 04.06.2025

Recent News:

Bernhard Garn @Athens for NERO COST Action (CA22164) Assembly

At the beginning of April, the NERO COST Action members came together for the Working Group Assembly (April 3rd and 4th) and Management Committee meeting (April 5th) at the Impact Hub in Athens, Greece. DEFSYS Team lead Bernhard Garn participated as a Working Group and Management Committee… Read More
Bernhard Garn @Athens for NERO COST Action (CA22164) Assembly

Irene Hiess Receives Highest Grade for Master’s Thesis Defense

We are happy to share the outstanding news that Irene Hiess, part of the MATRIS Research Group, has successfully defended her master’s thesis on the fascinating topic “Exact Methods of Generation of Covering Arrays”. On March 13th, Irene Hiess showcased her expertise, dedication, and unwavering commitment… Read More
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Poster @HotSoS 2024

This year’s Hot Topics in the Science of Security Symposium (HotSoS 2024) was hosted by the NSA and took place virtually between April 2-4. Representing the CST team of MATRIS Research Group, Dominik Schreiber presented a poster titled “A Combinatorial Perspective towards Security Testing of Anonymity Networks”. Read More
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MATRIS @IIASA for ECE Seminar

On April 8, 2024, the MATRIS Research Group and the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) research program members of IIASA convened for the ECE Seminar at the headquarters of IIASA at Schloss Laxenburg, while approximately 25 members from both parties participated remotely. Read More
MATRIS @IIASA for ECE Seminar

New Directions in Attack/Defense Modeling

SBA Research, University of Vienna, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Joanneum Research held a joint workshop on new directions in attack/defense modeling using AI on April 12th,… Read More

Dimitris Simos @ PH-US-UNCTAD Workshop on DRR

🔍 Exploring Global Solutions:The PH-US-UNCTAD Harnessing STI for DRR Workshop convened in Manila, Philippines from February 29 to March 1, 2024. With delegates from 44 UNCSTD member states, Dr. Dimitris Simos,... Read More
All UN Workshop 2024 Participants in Meeting Room

ACM MobiSys 2024 – Paper Accepted

Gabriel Gegenhuber’s new paper “Why E.T. Can’t Phone Home: A Global View on IP-based Geoblocking at VoWiFi” was recently accepted to the MobiSys conference happening in Tokyo in June 2024. The paper exposes existing blocking practices within worldwide mobile network operators that prevent customers from using Wi-Fi calling during roaming. Read More

Talk: Turning Machine-actionable DMPs into FAIR Digital Objects

Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave an interesting talk on “Turning Machine-actionable DMPs into FAIR Digital Objects” at the International FAIR Digital Objects Implementation Summit in Berlin. Transition to FDOs requires significant changes in the design of existing tools and… Read More

Getting physical | The Options of Reading and Sending CAN

In early March, the MATRIS Applied Research Consulting Team organized the second meetup of the Automotive Security Meetup series for the automotive community at SBA Research. The meeting format of the Automotive Security Research Group (ASRG Vienna) aims to foster discussion about ideas, methods,… Read More