This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on
Information and Communications Security ICISC 2016 held in Singapore Singapore in November
December 2016. The 20 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented were carefully selected
from 60 submissions. The papers cover topics such as IoT security cloud security applied
cryptography attack behaviour analytics authentication and authorization engineering issues
of cryptographic and security systems privacy protection risk evaluation and security key
management and language-based security and network security.