Prof. Antonio Maña received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Malaga in 1994 and 2003, respectively. In 1995 he joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Malaga where he is currently Professor in the Computer Science Department. His current research activities include security and software engineering, advanced multi-layered monitoring, information and network security, application of smart cards to digital contents commerce, and software protection. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has participated in several EU funded projects. He is the Principal Investigator of the PROTEUS team in FP7 OKKAM, PASSIVE, SECFUTUR, ASSERT4SOA, CUMULUS and PARIS projects, and has previously been involved in the FP6 Serenity, and GST projects, and FP5 CASENET project. Dr. Maña is member of the editorial board and reviewer for several international journals.