Future data and security engineering : 8th International Conference FDSE 2021 virtual event November 24 26 2021 : proceedings This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering FDSE 2021 which was supposed to be held in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam in November 2021 but the conference was held virtually due to the COVID 19 pandemic. The 24 full papers presented together with 2 invited keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The selected papers are organized into the following topical headings: Big Data Analytics and Distributed Systems; Advances in Machine Learning for Big Data Analytics; Industry 4.0 and Smart City: Data Analytics and Security; Blockchain and IoT Applications; Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Security and Privacy; Emerging Data Management Systems and Applications