This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fifth VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management, SDM 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand, on August 24, 2008, in conjunction with VLDB 2008.
The 11 full papers were selected for publication in the book from 32 submissions. In addition, 3 position papers and a keynote paper are included. The papers are organized in topical sections on database security, trust management, privacy protection, and security and privacy in healthcare.
