This work presents a review of perspectives in information security, focusing on technical as well as functional issues. It contains the selected proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Working Conference on Information Security (SEC2000), sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Beijing, China in August 2000. Topics in this volume include the developments in: information security management issues + Network security and protocols; information security aspects of E-commerce; distributed computing and access control; new information security technologies; ethics/privacy and copyright protection. It should be useful reading for researchers in computer science, information technology, and business informatics, as well as to information security consultants, system analysts and engineers, and IT managers.