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ARES & CD-MAKE 2021 held successfully

The second virtual ARES & CD-MAKE conference was held from August 17 to August 20, 2021. We were proud to welcome over 340 participants from 39+ countries to this second all-digital ARES & CD-MAKE conference! The four conference days were filled with internationally renowned keynote speakers,… Read More
ARES Conference 2021

eAwared 2021: Cyber Security Quiz nominated

The Cyber Security Quiz, a learning and gaming app for learning security and privacy, is nominated in the category “Education and human resources development” of this year eAward. We are all online almost every day. But few know the footprint we leave on the internet and the dangers… Read More
eAwared 2021: Cyber Security Quiz nominated

KIRAS project G-Star granted

SBA Research is happy to announce that the KIRAS project “G-Star: Gesamtstaatliche Erfassung der Resilienz im Kontext komplexer Krisenszenarien“ was granted. Kevin Mallinger and Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research) will be working on the project in cooperation with the BKA (Federal Chancellery Republic Austria), BMI… Read More

FFG Success Story: Our Blockchain Research Group

DECSYS, SBA’s Decentralized Systems Group, and their BRIDGE project SESC – Secure Execution of Smart Contracts have recently been featured as an FFG Success Story. DECSYS conducts research beyond hype topics like cryptocurrencies in order to achieve a better understanding of DLT requirements, identify… Read More
FFG Success Story: Our Blockchain Research Group

LION 2021 Conference Start

The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION15), hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. Panos Pardalos (General Chair), Dimitris E. Simos (TPC Chair) and Ilias Kotsireas (Local Organizing Chair) are welcoming contributors from 29 countries and are happy… Read More
Lion15 Conference

sec4dev 2021 Recap – Women in IT: We are no Aliens!

In the pioneering days of information technology, women played an essential role – well-known examples are Ada Lovelace, who developed an algorithm and is considered the first female programmer ever, or Dorothy Vaughan, whose work contributed significantly to… Read More
sec4dev Women session

SBA confirmed as Qualified Body (QuaSte)

Energy providers, banks or even healthcare organizations, if identified as operators of essential services, must ensure that their network and information systems are as resilient as possible in crisis situations. They are therefore required by the EU Directive on security of network and information systems (the NIS Directive), implemented… Read More
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SBA-K1 – 2nd research period started

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. The first four years of our current COMET period (2017 – 2021) have been tremendously successful. We were able to… Read More
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