This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Intelligent Mechanisms for Network Configuration and Security, AIMS 2015, held in Ghent, Belgium, in June 2015. The 7 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The volume also includes 9 papers presented at the AIMS Ph.D. workshop. They were reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The full papers are organized in topical sections on autonomic and decentralized management and security, privacy, and measurements. The workshop papers are organized in topical sections on management of future networking and security management.