This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2016, held in Can Tho City, Vietnam, in November 2016.

The 28 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The accepted papers were grouped into the following sessions:

• Advances in query processing and optimization
  
• Big data analytics and applications
  
• Blockchains and emerging authentication techniques
  
• Data engineering tools in software development
  
• Data protection, data hiding, and access control
  
• Internet of Things and applications
  
• Security and privacy engineering
  
• Social network data analytics and recommendation systems