This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Big Data and Security, ICBDS 2021, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2021The 46 revised full papers and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected out of 221 submissions. The papers included in this volume are organized according to the topical sections on cybersecurity and privacy, big data, blockchain and internet of things, and artificial intelligence/ machine learning security.