Elena got her Ms Degree from the Information Security Systems Department from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in June 2008. During 2008 she was a trainee in the Nokia Research Center (Helsinki), where she was mainly involved into the projects about Linux Platform Security. Since January 2009 Elena has been working in Maemo Security team and participating in the development of the Harmattan Security FW. Currently she is a doctoral student at Helsinki University of Technology.