This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Annual
Conference on Cyber Security CNCERT 2020 held in Beijing China in August 2020. The 17
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are
organized according to the following topical sections: access control cryptography
denial-of-service attacks hardware security implementation intrusion anomaly detection and
malware mitigation social network security and privacy systems security.