With the advent of revolutionary and disruptive technologies such as cloud computing, big data and internet of things, secure knowledge management continues to be an important research area that deals with methodologies for systematically gathering, organizing, and disseminating information in a secure manner. SKM 2017 will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to share recent advances in this area. Following the biennial tradition of the Secure Knowledge Management Workshop (SKM) that began in 2004, SKM 2017…