Mariia Shabatura graduated from the Institute of Computer Technologies, Automation, and Metrology at Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine in 2010, with a degree specializing in the "protection of information with restricted access and automation of its processing". In 2015 she presented her Ph.D. dissertation on the specialty “information protection systems” at Lviv Polytechnic National University. Since 2010, she has been working as an assistant professor at the Department of Information Technology Security in Lviv Polytechnic National University. Her research interests include cybersecurity, protection of computer networks, pseudorandom number and bit sequence generators, cybersecurity standards ISO, NIST.