This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security, ML4CS 2023, held in Yanuca Island, Fiji, during December 4–6, 2023.

The 11 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They cover a variety of topics, including cybersecurity, AI security, machine learning security, encryption, authentication, data security and privacy, cybersecurity forensic analysis, vulnerability analysis, malware analysis, anomaly and intrusion detection.