Antonio Maña received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Málaga in 1994 and 2003, respectively. In 1995 he joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Málaga where he is currently Professor in the Computer Science Department. His current research activities include security and software engineering, information and network security, application of smart cards to digital contents commerce, software protection and DRM. He has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. He has participated in several EU funded projects and is currently the Scientific Director of th FP6 SERENITY project and the UMAs principal investigator of FP6 GST, GREDIA and OKKAM projects. Prof. Maña is member of the Editorial Board of the Intl. Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF) and reviewer for several other international journals. He is member of different professional and scientific societies and workgroups and is actively involved in the organisation of research and educational activities.Specialties: Security and software engineering; information and network security;TPMs, smart cards and other security hardware devices;digital contents commerce;software protection; and DRM.