
Smart, Secure, and Sustainable Digital Futures
AI, Cybersecurity, and Governance in Emerging Digital Systems
CRC Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 4. November 2026
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-041-38436-6 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive volume provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the design, governance, and sustainability of emerging digital systems by integrating theoretical foundations with empirical studies. The text takes a closer look at trust, security, and responsible innovation, across four thematic pillars: conceptual foundations, cybersecurity resilience, AI governance, and human-centered applications.
By bridging the gap between technical depth and conceptual clarity, the book offers a holistic perspective on how digital transformation can be aligned with global sustainability goals. Collectively, it serves as an authoritative roadmap for navigating the complexities of the modern socio-technical landscape, ensuring that technological progress stays safe and resilient. The reader learns insights from computer science, governance, and social sciences into a unified socio-technical framework. The authors address the bedrock requirements of "smart" systems, transparency, explainability, and ethical oversight, as seen in its detailed examinations of Explainable AI (XAI) and user-centered e-voting. A significant strength lies in its balance of global and emerging-economy perspectives, such as AI-driven energy forecasting in Malaysia and CRM governance in Indonesia, which provide practitioners with scalable insights often missing from Western-centric literature. By transitioning from rigorous academic theory to practical applications like IoT-enabled fire detection and SME ransomware resilience, the volume remains equally relevant to corporate boardrooms and research laboratories. Furthermore, the focus on future-proof concepts like "digital resilience" ensures the content remains applicable long after specific software versions or hardware trends have evolved. This combination of strategic, data-driven, and systems-oriented perspectives ensures that readers gain a 360-degree view of the digital economy. The chapters balance technical rigor with accessibility, making complex topics like Snort IDS enhancements and malicious URL detection understandable to a broad professional audience while maintaining the integrity of the underlying research.
The book targets industry practitioners, SME leaders, and sustainability officers who require practical, data-driven frameworks for building resilience. The other readership group includes researchers, postgraduate students, and policymakers seeking an authoritative reference on the design and governance of trustworthy digital systems. This book is part of the book series, Technology for Smart Environments and Sustainable Futures
By bridging the gap between technical depth and conceptual clarity, the book offers a holistic perspective on how digital transformation can be aligned with global sustainability goals. Collectively, it serves as an authoritative roadmap for navigating the complexities of the modern socio-technical landscape, ensuring that technological progress stays safe and resilient. The reader learns insights from computer science, governance, and social sciences into a unified socio-technical framework. The authors address the bedrock requirements of "smart" systems, transparency, explainability, and ethical oversight, as seen in its detailed examinations of Explainable AI (XAI) and user-centered e-voting. A significant strength lies in its balance of global and emerging-economy perspectives, such as AI-driven energy forecasting in Malaysia and CRM governance in Indonesia, which provide practitioners with scalable insights often missing from Western-centric literature. By transitioning from rigorous academic theory to practical applications like IoT-enabled fire detection and SME ransomware resilience, the volume remains equally relevant to corporate boardrooms and research laboratories. Furthermore, the focus on future-proof concepts like "digital resilience" ensures the content remains applicable long after specific software versions or hardware trends have evolved. This combination of strategic, data-driven, and systems-oriented perspectives ensures that readers gain a 360-degree view of the digital economy. The chapters balance technical rigor with accessibility, making complex topics like Snort IDS enhancements and malicious URL detection understandable to a broad professional audience while maintaining the integrity of the underlying research.
The book targets industry practitioners, SME leaders, and sustainability officers who require practical, data-driven frameworks for building resilience. The other readership group includes researchers, postgraduate students, and policymakers seeking an authoritative reference on the design and governance of trustworthy digital systems. This book is part of the book series, Technology for Smart Environments and Sustainable Futures
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference
Illustrations
70 s/w Zeichnungen, 46 s/w Tabellen, 70 s/w Abbildungen
46 Tables, black and white; 70 Line drawings, black and white; 70 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-38436-6 (9781041384366)
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Additional editions
Norliza Katuk | Roberto Vergallo | Noradila Nordin
Smart, Secure, and Sustainable Digital Futures
AI, Cybersecurity, and Governance in Emerging Digital Systems
E-Book
approx. 11/2026
CRC Press
€68.49
Not yet available
Norliza Katuk | Roberto Vergallo | Noradila Nordin
Smart, Secure, and Sustainable Digital Futures
AI, Cybersecurity, and Governance in Emerging Digital Systems
E-Book
approx. 11/2026
CRC Press
€68.49
Not yet available
Persons
Norliza Katuk, the primary editor, is an associate professor of cybersecurity at the School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Her research interests include information security and privacy, and cybersecurity awareness, and she has published widely in international journals and serves as a reviewer for several esteemed publications.
Roberto Vergallo is a tenured assistant professor of Software Engineering and Green Computing at Pegaso University (Italy). His research interests include fintech, sustainable software engineering, green AI, and digital ethics. He is co-founder of Vidyasoft srl, a spin-off company of Salento University (Italy).
Noradila Nordin is a lecturer in Computer Programming at the School of Games & Creative Technology at University for the Creative Arts in the United Kingdom. Her research interests include augmented reality, artificial intelligence applications, and wireless sensor networks.
Roberto Vergallo is a tenured assistant professor of Software Engineering and Green Computing at Pegaso University (Italy). His research interests include fintech, sustainable software engineering, green AI, and digital ethics. He is co-founder of Vidyasoft srl, a spin-off company of Salento University (Italy).
Noradila Nordin is a lecturer in Computer Programming at the School of Games & Creative Technology at University for the Creative Arts in the United Kingdom. Her research interests include augmented reality, artificial intelligence applications, and wireless sensor networks.
Editor
School of Computing Universiti Utara, Malaysia
University of Salento, Italy
Content
Section I: Foundations of Smart, Secure, and Sustainable Digital Systems. 1 Smart, Secure and Sustainable Digital Futures 2. Big Data for Smart and Sustainable Cities: A Global Bibliometric Perspective 3. AI-Driven Forecasting for Sustainable Energy Futures: Sectoral Insights from Malaysia 4. Real-Time Data Visualisation for Smart and Sustainable Futures: A Bibliometric Analysis. Section II: Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience for Sustainable Futures 5. Building Cybersecurity Readiness for Small and Medium Enterprises: A Protection Motivation Theory Approach to Ransomware Resilience 6. Smart Intrusion Detection for Sustainable Cybersecurity: Enhancing Snort with Fast Pattern and Perl Compatible Regular Expressions 7. Cybersecurity Readiness for Small and Medium Enterprises: Building Ransomware Resilience in the Digital Economy 8. Smart Machine Learning Approaches for Malicious Unified Resource Locator Detection: Towards Sustainable Cybersecurity Systems. Section III: AI, Governance, and Trust in Sustainable Digital Economies 9. AI-Driven IT Governance and Predictive Maintenance: Building Smart and Sustainable Customer Relationship Management Systems 10. Explainable AI for Fraud Prevention: Building Trust and Sustainability in Digital Economies 11. Smart Credit Scoring with AI and Alternative Data: Enhancing Financial Inclusion through Sustainable FinTech Systems 12. Blockchain-Enabled Smart Supply Chains: Optimising EOQ for Cost Efficiency and Sustainability 13. User-Centred Development of a Trustworthy E-Voting Application Section IV: Human-Centred Smart Applications for Resilience and Well-Being 14. IoT-Enabled Smart Fire Detection Systems: Enhancing Safety and Sustainability through Real-Time Monitoring 15. Smart Human Activity Recognition: Towards Sustainable Health and AI Systems 16. Smart and Sustainable Flood Disaster Management: Challenges, Lessons, and Future Directions 17. AI and Machine Learning for Early Mental Health Detection: Towards Smart and Sustainable Well-Being in Higher Education18. Imagining Companion Robots: A Hybrid Artistic Study of Loneliness and Design in Higher Education