Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th IFIP WG 11.3 International Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2014. The 22 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on access control, privacy, networked and mobile environments, data access, cloud databases, and private retrieval.