This two-volume set LNICST 398 and 399 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 17^th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2021, held in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.

The 56 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. The papers focus on the latest scientific research results in security and privacy in wired, mobile, hybrid and ad hoc networks, in IoT technologies, in cyber-physical systems, in next-generation communication systems in web and systems security and in pervasive and ubiquitous computing.