Alexandra Mikityuk has received her Diploma in Radio-, TV- and Multimedia Engineering from the State University of Telecommunications Saint Petersburg and her Diploma in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. Since 2007 she was involved in several EU funded projects, where she mainly dealt with AAA-architectures being also involved in ETSI standardization on Identity and access management for Networks and Services. In 2013 she joined the Security in Telecommunication research group in TU Berlin, where she currently works for Telekom Innovation Laboratories on cloud-based service execution, security and content protection issues for media processing.