This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2024, held in Montréal, QC, Canada, during December 09–11, 2024. The 28 full and 11 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Critical issues of protecting systems against digital threats,considering financial, technological, and operational implications; Automating and enhancing security mechanisms in software systems and data management; Cybersecurity and AI when applied to emerging technologies; Cybersecurity and Ethics; Cybersecurity and privacy in connected and autonomous systems for IoT, smart environments, and critical infrastructure; New trends in advanced cryptographic protocols.   Part II: Preserving privacy and maintaining trust for end users in a complex and numeric cyberspace; Intersecting security, privacy, and machine learning techniques to detect, mitigate, and prevent threats; New trends of machine leaning and AI applied to cybersecurity.