Data and Application Security covering issues related to security and privacy of information in various applications, including: + Electronic Commerce, XML and Web Security; + Workflow Security and Role-based Access Control; + Distributed Objects and Components Security; + Inference Problem, Data Mining and Intrusion Detection; + Language and SQL Security; + Security Architecture and Framework; + Federation and Distribution of Security Systems; + Policy Encryption, Authentication and Security. This book contains papers and panel discussion of the Fourteenth Annual Working Conference on Database Security, which is part of Database Security: Status and Prospects conference series sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).