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Projects

SBA Research has established itself as an innovative and reliable scientific partner. We are active in numerous international and national research projects – funded through e.g. H2020, FWF, and FFG – and work closely with renowned research institutions from all over the world.

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.

Current projects

International

dAIbetes

Federated virtual twins for privacy-preserving personalised outcome prediction of type 2 diabetes treatment

Horizon Europe | European Commission | January 2024 - December 2028
Almost one in ten adults worldwide suffers from type 2 diabetes, making the development of… Read More

CoGNETs

Continuums Of Game NETs: swarm intelligence as information processing

HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01-04) | European Commission | June 2024 - May 2027
IoTs devices currently lack the ability to self-organizate and learn collaboratively  i.e., they cannot autonomously… Read More

SYNTHEMA

Synthetic generation of haematological data over federated computing frameworks

H2020 | EU | December 2022 - November 2026
Under a global lens, the impact of haematological diseases is staggering.Unfortunately, as is common… Read More

Screen4Care

Shortening the path to rare disease diagnosis by using newborn genetic screening and digital technologies

EU H2020 | Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) | October 2021 - September 2026
New EU Research Project “Screen4Care”: Accelerating Diagnosis for Rare Disease Patients Through Genetic Newborn Screening… Read More

AI5production

EDIH AI5production

Horizon Europe EDIH | EU & FFG | November 2022 - October 2025
Overview “AI5production” is the largest of four Austrian EDIHs. It offers the highest professional expertise… Read More

EDIH innovATE

EDIH innovATE – The European Digital Innovation Hub for Agrifood, Timber and Energy

Horizon | EU | October 2022 - September 2025
Overview The European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) EDIH innovATE aims to support a sustainable and… Read More

QCI-CAT

Deploying advanced national QCI systems and networks

EU secure quantum communication and infrastructure call, The European Quantum Communication Infrastructure | EU | January 2023 - June 2025
QCI-CAT forms the Austrian subproject of the European Commissions EuroQCI initiative. With this, the… Read More

ARMify

Auto-Identification of MCU Models to Simplify ARM Bare-Metal Reverse Engineering

NGI0 Entrust | NGI Initiative | April 2024 - March 2025
ARMify aims to become a plugin for the open-source reverse engineering tool Ghidra, with its… Read More

ReOxide

ReOxide - Improving Rust Decompilation

NGI0 Entrust | NGI Initiative | April 2024 - March 2025
ReOxide is an initiative for improving the Rust decompilation support in current software engineering frameworks. Read More

National

ACOSec

Automatisierung von Security Tests mit kombinatorischen Methoden

Innovationscamps 2022 | FFG | March 2024 - February 2026
The quality assurance of modern software is carried out manually or incompletely in the area… Read More

TestCat

Automated Testbeds for the Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Capabilities

KIRAS | FFG | February 2024 - January 2026
Critical infrastructures have become main targets in geopolitical cyberwarfare as intrusions and other attacks against… Read More

ASOC

Academic Security Operations Center

KIRAS | FFG | January 2024 - January 2026
The Kiras project ASOC aims to investigate a rapid and automated information exchange of security… Read More

NurZu!

Nationale und regionale Modelle, Gefährdungs- und Zukunftsszenarien für das österreichische Stromnetz

Bridge 1 | FFG | January 2023 - December 2025
Das Stromnetz steht momentan vor großen Herausforderungen wie Die konkrete Gefährdung durch Stromausfälle als Konsequenz… Read More

SecKey

SecKey: New approaches for secure key management

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | July 2023 - December 2025
The SecKey project is a joint research initiative between SBA Research, the… Read More

Q-Crit Austria

Quantum-Safe Critical Infrastructure for Austria

Breitband Austria 2030: GigaApp 2. Ausschreibung | FFG | November 2024 - October 2025
The flagship project “Quantum-Safe Critical Infrastructure for Austria” (Q-Crit Austria) contributes to the establishment of… Read More

LLM4CTI

Large Language Models for Cyber Threat Intelligence

Digitale Technologien 2023 - Kooperationsprojekte und Sondierungen | FFG | October 2024 - September 2025
In current Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) environments, it is difficult and time-consuming for a security… Read More

Fem4CyberSec

FemTech Karriere | FFG | July 2024 - July 2025
Diverse perspectives are valuable in any field, but this is especially true for IT Security. Read More

CTI

Cyber Threat Intelligence - Qualifizierungsnetzwerk

Digitale Technologien 2023 Qualifizierungsnetzwerke | FFG | August 2024 - July 2025
With the rapid digital transformation and a massive increase in cyber attacks, it is essential… Read More

Monitaur

MONITAUR: Monitoring system for copy protection through malicious client detection

Netidee | Internet Stiftung | January 2024 - May 2025
Monitaur is an open-source solution for protecting intellectual property of service providers. It is primarily… Read More

SBA-K1 (FP2)

SBA Research - K1 (FP2)

COMET K1 | FFG | April 2021 - March 2025
For our second research period from 2021 – 2025, we have devised an ambitious work… Read More

FiBack

Semiautomatic Methods for finding hidden Backdoors

FORTE | FFG | January 2022 - December 2024
FiBack focuses on the (partially) automated detection of (un)intended built-in backdoors in IT components (third-party… Read More

Past projects

International

Dynamo

Combinatorial Interaction Matching with Applications to Security and Data Analysis

Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Program | NIST | October 2021 - September 2024
This project will devise new combinatorial methods from discrete mathematics and apply the resulting novel… Read More

IPv6 Scanning

Handling Data from IPv6 Scanning

NGI Initiative | NGI | January 2020 - March 2024
In this project, we will develop a data storage and analysis solution for high-speed IPv6… Read More

MobileAtlas 5G

MobileAtlas: A Scalable Way to Measure Cellular Networks

NGI Initiative | NGI | March 2023 - March 2024
MobileAtlas is an international measurement platform for cellular networks that takes… Read More

FeatureCloud

Privacy Preserving Federated Machine Learning and Blockchaining for Reduced Cyber Risks in a World of Distributed Healthcare

H2020-RIA | EU | January 2019 - December 2023
The FeatureCloud project develops privacy preserving federated machine learning mechanisms, especially for health-care related settings. Read More

ArchitectECA2030

ArchitectECA2030

H2020-ECSEL-RIA | EU/ FFG | July 2020 - December 2023
Automation is seen as one of the key technologies that considerably will shape our society… Read More

LivestockSense

Enhancing environmental sustainability of livestock farms by removing barriers for adoption of ICT technologies

ERA-NET | EU | April 2021 - March 2023
The development of sustainable animal husbandry requires the removal of socio-economic and cultural barriers preventing… Read More

CONCORDIA

Cyber Security Competence for Research and Innovation

H2020 | EU | January 2019 - December 2022
CONCORDIA is a four-year multi-disciplinary research and innovation project (H2020), and will play a leadership… Read More

MobileAtlas

MobileAtlas

Internet Hardening Fund | NLNet | January 2021 - October 2022
MobileAtlas is an international measurement platform for cellular networks… Read More

DigForASP

Digital forensics: evidence analysis via intelligent systems and practices

COST Action | EU | September 2018 - September 2022
The Challenge of the proposed COST Action consists in creating a Network for exploring the… Read More

Digital Twins for CPS Security

Dagstuhl Seminar: Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Systems Security

Dagstuhl Seminar | Dagstuhl | February 2021 - April 2022
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) must be adequately protected against adversaries throughout their entire lifecycle. However, designing… Read More

SENTINEL

Security Interaction Testing for IoT Systems and Blockchains

NIST MSE FY17 | NIST MSE | October 2018 - September 2021
The SENTINEL project aims to expand the horizons of combinatorial security testing by developing new… Read More

SoS-Agile

Science of Security for Agile Software Development

IKTPLUSS | RCN | December 2015 - November 2020
The overall research problem to be addressed by the project is the general lack of… Read More

SCOTT

Secure Connected Trustable Things

ECSEL JU | FFG/ EU | May 2017 - October 2020
The project SCOTT focused on “trustable things that communicate securely” – including vehicles, control systems… Read More

DRIVER+

Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience

FP7 | EU | May 2014 - April 2020
DRIVER+ is an ambitious pan-European project tasked with supporting the capability development of Crisis Management… Read More

EUTYPES

The European Research Network on Types for Programming and Verification

COST Action | EU | March 2016 - March 2020
Types are pervasive in programming and information technology. A type defines a formal interface between… Read More

RECODIS

Resilient Communication Services Protecting End-user Applications from Disaster-based Failures

COST Action | EU | March 2016 - February 2020
Disaster-based disruptions seriously degrading the performance of any communication network (following from natural disasters, technology-related… Read More

MHMD

My Health – My Data

H2020-RIA | EU | November 2016 - December 2019
MyHealthMyData (MHMD) was a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action which aimed at fundamentally changing… Read More

SENTER

Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime

Internal Security Fund-Police | EU | January 2016 - December 2018
The main goal of the project was to create a single point of Reference for EU… Read More

CRYPTACUS

Cryptanalysis of ubiquitous computing systems

COST Action | EU | March 2016 - December 2018
The COST Action CRYPTACUS established a network of complementary skills in cryptography, information security, privacy,… Read More

MPM4CPS

Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems

COST Action | EU | March 2015 - November 2018
The main objective of the Action was to enhance the quality, visibility and impact of… Read More

CyberROAD

Development of the CYBER crime and CYBER terrorism research ROADmap

FP7-SEC | EU | June 2014 - May 2016
The main objective of CyberROAD is “developing the Cybercrime and Cyber-terrorism research roadmap”. This roadmap was… Read More

National

PICUS

Integrative concept for data fusion and optimisation of forest fire monitoring processes

Waldfonds | Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Regionen und Wasserwirtschaft (BML) | July 2022 - August 2024
Overview Forest fire monitoring has undergone a major technological shift in recent years through the… Read More

DynAISEC

Adaptive AI/ML for Dynamic Cybersecurity Systems

ICT of the Future | FFG | January 2022 - July 2024
The application of AI/ML to cybersecurity (AI4SEC) is increasingly becoming a paramount need to protect… Read More

SmartDLP

Systematic Analysis and Assessment of Distributed Ledger Protocols and their Consensus Mechanisms

Industrial PhD | FFG | September 2020 - May 2024
This project will focus on existing DLT protocol (DLP) designs and their respective consensus mechanisms,… Read More

gAia

Predicting landslides - Entwicklung von Gefahrenhinweiskarten für Hangrutschungen aus konsolidierten Inventardaten

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | October 2021 - March 2024
The goal of the gAia project is to generate hazard-warning maps for landslides. The project… Read More

SecurityTwin

Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Threat Detection & Response

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | January 2021 - December 2023
The aim of the SecurityTwin project is to develop the fundamental methods for employing the… Read More

AIM@IoT

Automated Identification of Security Threats and Malicious Activities in the Internet of Things

Industrial PhD | FFG | December 2020 - November 2023
With regard to the Internet-of-Things (IoT), current research highlights the absence of methods for the… Read More

ABC

Austrian Blockchain Center

COMET K1 | FFG | October 2019 - September 2023
The Center’s mission is to be the one-stop-shop Austrian Research Center for Blockchain (and related)… Read More

PRIMAL

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning for Industrial Applications

ICT of the Future | FFG | January 2020 - September 2023
PRIMAL will enable industrial deep learning applications by increasing the amount of… Read More

Beyond Coding

Software-Entwicklung der Zukunft

Qualification Networks | FFG | March 2021 - August 2023
Beyond Coding – Software-Entwicklung der Zukunft – focuses on two key competencies of software developers of… Read More

IPP4ML

Intellectual Property Protection of Machine Learning Processes

Industrial PhD | FFG | March 2020 - July 2023
IPP4ML will advance the research in the area of intellectual property (IP) protection, with the… Read More

CyberMonoLog

Cyber Security MONITORING and LOGGING Best Practice Guidance

KIRAS | FFG | January 2022 - June 2023
CyberMonoLog develops best practices for cyber security monitoring and logging based on the known attack… Read More

G-STAR

Gesamtstaatliche Erfassung der Resilienz im Kontext komplexer Krisenszenarien

KIRAS | FFG | October 2021 - March 2023
The G-Star study aims to record the cooperative structures of Austrian crisis management and to… Read More

GASTRIC

Gene Anonymisation and Synthetisation for Privacy

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | April 2020 - February 2023
GASTRIC will investigate three aspects of microbiome sharing and analysis. Read More

AfPoWB

Alternatives for Proof-of-Work based Blockchains

Industrial PhD | FFG | March 2020 - February 2023
The objective of this project is to investigate existing alternatives for Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain protocols… Read More

Identity Marketplace

Decentralised Marketplace for Digital Identity

Small Scale Project | FFG | January 2021 - December 2022
The goal of this project is to build a Decentralized Identity Marketplace – based on… Read More

AutoCyberSec – Training

Techniken aus dem Security Testing für die Bedrohungsmodellierung im Bereich Automotive

Innovation Camp | FFG | June 2022 - December 2022
Project overview Modern Security Testing and threat modelling meets the Automotive domain. The participants learn… Read More

ISaFe

Injecting Security Features into Constrained Embedded Firmware

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | September 2019 - November 2022
The project aims to provide automated approaches to implant security features into connected embedded system… Read More

Joint Seminar Austria/Japan

Security and Resilience for P2P Energy Trading

Joint Seminar | FWF | September 2022 - September 2022
Wider research context: Power grids are critical infrastructures which are currently undergoing radical changes: from… Read More

2big2fail

Identification and Disintegration of Single Points of Failure on the Internet

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | February 2020 - July 2022
In this project, we investigate the Internet’s diversity and identify technologies that are too big… Read More

DIdentity & DApps

Distributed Identity & Distributed Applications

ICT of the Future | FFG | August 2019 - July 2022
The DIdentity & DApps project addresses some of the most pressing questions in the area… Read More

AutoHoney(I)IoT

Automated Device Independent Honeypot Generation of IoT and Industrial IoT Devices

BRIDGE 1 Young Scientists | FFG | July 2019 - June 2022
The project goal is the development of a generic honeypot framework that automatically generates tailored… Read More

IKKRITI

Integral Consequence Analysis for Critical Infrastructures

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | November 2020 - April 2022
The project IKKRITI aims to assess emerging digital risks pertaining to critical infrastructures; thereby, supporting… Read More

WellFort

WellFort

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | April 2019 - March 2022
The WellFort project aims to research the basic mechanisms to provide secure storage for… Read More

KnoP-2D

Evolving and Securing of Knowledge, Tasks and Processes in Distributed Dynamic Environments via a 2D-Knowledge/Process Graph

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | March 2019 - February 2022
Within this project, we develop mechanisms for process mining in a distributed setting, i.e. where… Read More

Digital Pro Bootcamp

Cyber-Resilience in Medical Applications

DIGITAL PRO BOOTCAMPS | FFG | January 2021 - January 2022
Background Modern IT-systems are increasingly complex and interconnected, posing greater risks of faults and breakdowns. Read More

DLE & AD

Distributed Ledger Engineering and Application Development

Qualification Seminars | FFG | November 2020 - October 2021
Participants of this Qualification Seminar will acquire basic and advanced knowledge in the field of… Read More

InduSec

Industrial Security (IT/OT convergence)-Qualifizierungsnetz zur gezielten Förderung eines gemeinsamen Sicherheitsverständnisses von IT- und OT-Expert*innen

Qualification Networks | FFG | March 2019 - August 2021
InduSec focuses on information security in IT/OT environments and considers technical and organizational aspects of… Read More

USSC

Usable Security of Smart Contract Development and Verification

Industrial PhD | FFG | April 2020 - August 2021
This project will apply state-of-the-art scientific methods from usable security research in order to adapt… Read More

SecUCP

Applied Methods for Secure and Usable Cryptographic Protocols

Industrial PhD | FFG | April 2020 - August 2021
This project examines the lack of usable systems for developers and administrators that need to… Read More

PR4DLT

Privacy-Preserving Regulatory Technologies for Distributed Ledger Technologies

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | February 2018 - June 2021
PR4DLT aims to address the question of how regulators can efficiently cope with distributed-ledger-based assets… Read More

FuOnA

Future of Online Anonymity

Stand-alone Project netidee SCIENCE | FWF | March 2018 - April 2021
Core of the project on the Future of Online Anonymity (FuOnA) is to advance the technical means… Read More

SBA-K1 (FP1)

SBA Research - K1 (FP1)

COMET K1 | FFG | April 2017 - March 2021
In our increasingly connected world – where almost all aspects of daily life depend on… Read More

IoT4CPS

Trustworthy IoT for Cyber-Physical-Systems

ICT of the Future | FFG | December 2017 - December 2020
The project focuses on the development, production and operation of safe components and applications for… Read More

SDAH

Smart Data Analytics for the Hotel Industry

Qualification Networks | FFG | July 2019 - December 2020
The qualification network aims to teach the employees of tourism enterprises – especially accommodation providers… Read More

ACCSA

Austrian Cyber Crisis Support Activities

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | November 2017 - October 2020
ACCSA aimed to enable comprehensive and innovative training, exercise and evaluation concepts for all actors… Read More

SecWIT

Securing Web Technologies with Combinatorial Interaction Testing

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | October 2017 - September 2020
The SecWIT project aims to advance the state of the art of Combinatorial Security Testing… Read More

DAÖ2.0

Digital Atlas of Austria 2.0

KIRAS R&D Support Actions | FFG | February 2019 - July 2020
The aim of this study was to identify and analyze internet-based digital services vital… Read More

SESC

Secure Execution of Smart Contracts

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | January 2017 - June 2020
This project focuses on research addressing the emerging requirements for supporting the whole lifecycle of… Read More

SmartIdentification

Confident Identification by Using Mobile Remote Devices

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | December 2017 - June 2020
SmartIdentification is a bilateral KIRAS project (Austria/ Germany) on the use of existing data on… Read More

TARGET

Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks

Josef Ressel Centres | CDG | April 2017 - March 2020
The center explored novel techniques for threat intelligence on targeted attacks on different layers. Together… Read More

CRISCROSS

Crisismanagment/Riskanalysis – Crossover System

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | October 2017 - March 2019
The CRISCROSS project has shown that an innovative approach can effectively capture, understand and evaluate… Read More

TRUC

Trusted Code

Qualification Networks | FFG | October 2016 - March 2019
The Trusted Code (TRUC) project provided participants with in-depth security knowledge for software development. Read More

CBmed

Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine

COMET K1 | FFG | May 2015 - December 2018
CBmed, an Austrian funded competence center, links excellent research infrastructure, scientific expertise, medical knowledge, national… Read More

DARKNET

Darknet Analysis

KIRAS R&D Support Actions | FFG | October 2016 - September 2018
In the broader sense, the term “darknet” is understood to mean so-called overlay networks, which… Read More

SPLIT

Security Protocol Interaction Testing in Practice

BRIDGE Early Stage | FFG | February 2016 - July 2018
The SPLIT project applied methods from the field of combinatorial (interaction) testing and model-based testing… Read More

A2Bit

Alternative Applications for Bitcoin

BRIDGE Early Stage | FFG | January 2015 - June 2018
The A2Bit project substantially improved the knowledge on how to apply approaches from the domain… Read More

DEXHELPP

Decision Support for Health Policy and Planning: Methods, Models and Technologies based on Existing Health Care Data

COMET Project | FFG | July 2014 - June 2018
The aim of DEXHELPP is the development of new methods, models and technologies to support… Read More

CISA

Cyber Incident Situational Awareness

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | November 2015 - April 2018
The project shows how companies cooperate with these NIS authorities with the common goal of… Read More

Latido

Web-based medical practice software for physicians

Basisprogramm | FFG | April 2016 - April 2018
Latido is a web-based software that helps physicians treat patients and manage their medical… Read More

BanqPro2

BanqPro2

Basisprogramm | FFG | February 2015 - March 2018
Banqpro is a modern and proven core banking solution for European financial service providers in… Read More

Big Data, Innovation and Privacy

Big Data, Innovation and Privacy

BMVIT Study | BMVIT | January 2016 - December 2017
The study focused on analysing the General Data Protection Directive (GDPR) from a legal, technical,… Read More

CERT-Komm II

CERT-Kommunikationsmodell II

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | January 2016 - December 2017
The objectives of the CERT Communication II project are closely related to the rapidly increasing… Read More

RASSA

Reference Architecture for Secure Smart Grids in Austria

Energy Research | FFG | June 2015 - November 2017
The RASSA architecture project has developed a uniform reference architecture for secure Smart Grids in… Read More

U’SMILE

User-friendly Secure Mobile Environments

Josef Ressel Centres | CDG | October 2012 - September 2017
The mission of this Josef Ressel Center for User-friendly Secure Mobile Environments (u’smile) was the… Read More

CyPhySec

Framework to Cyber-Physical System Security

BRIDGE Early Stage | FFG | January 2014 - June 2017
The project “Framework to Cyber-Physical System Security (CyPhySec)” aims to increase the security of cyber-physical… Read More

SBA2

Secure Business Austria 2

COMET K1 | FFG | April 2010 - March 2017
SBA2 focused on solid and fundamental research in the information security sector with a clear… Read More

SpeedFor

Speed Forensics

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | October 2014 - March 2017
This project aimed to fundamentally increase the performance of current state of-the-art forensic methods and… Read More

TLSiP

Transport Layer Security in Practice

BRIDGE 1 | FFG | October 2014 - March 2017
The project “Transport Layer Security in Practice (TLSiP)” dealt with methods to recognize unsafe cryptographic… Read More

DCloud

Decision Framework Model for Cloud Based System Migration

Stand-alone Project | FWF | October 2013 - January 2017
The increasing distribution of cloud services comes with significant benefits but also substantial risks to… Read More

DAÖ

Digital Atlas of Austria

KIRAS R&D Support Actions | FFG | October 2015 - December 2016
The internet study “Digital Atlas of Austria” addresses the security-related and economic importance of the… Read More

BITCRIME

Prosecution and prevention of organized financial crime with virtual currencies

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | October 2014 - September 2016
BITCRIME was a bilateral German-Austrian research project. The aim of the joint project was the… Read More

DIANGO

Digitale Informationsvisualisierung aus automatisierter Analyse

KIRAS Cooperative R&I Projects | FFG | October 2013 - March 2016
The present project dealt with questions that have arisen in the course of the last… Read More

MAPO

Malware Analysis, Privacy & Obfuscation

Tertiary Level Courses | FFG | September 2013 - March 2016
Information technology and modern end devices almost completely permeate the modern working world. New services… Read More

SAGE

Predictive maintenance and software ageing analysis

| | November 2024 - November 2024
Overview SAGE (Software Aging and Governance Explorer) is an innovative project aimed at the early… Read More