This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 20
th
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses, RAID 2017, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in September 2017.
The 21 revised full papers were selected from 105 submissions. They are organized in the following topics: software security, intrusion detection, systems security, android security, cybercrime, cloud security, network security.