Overview
- Provides a roadmap for CS, information systems and cybersecurity grappling with framing research topics
- Presents path for embarking on research projects by reducing complexities to understanding the topics’ relevant needs
- Distinguishes CS information systems and cybersecurity research while highlighting their intersection in a practical way
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Uche M. Mbanaso (PhD) is a leading Cybersecurity subject matter expert (SME), and currently the Executive Director, Centre for Cyberspace Studies, an Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Computing at Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria, a visiting academic at the LINK Centre, Wits University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He lectures computing and cybersecurity and has extensive experience in conducting research, having secured several grants for research studies. He remains a key player in the development of Cybersecurity, having played important roles in the development of Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy, Data and Privacy Protection, and many other Cybersecurity initiatives in Africa.
Luci Abrahams (PhD) is Director of the LINK Centre at Wits University, building research on digital innovation and how digital technologies and processes influence change. Studies include case studies in digital governance; digital skills gap analysis; digital strategy; scaling up innovation in tech hubs; open access in scholarly publishing (Open AIR research partnership); and health e-services improvement (Egypt-South Africa research partnership). Luci convenes the MA and PhD programmes in Interdisciplinary Digital Knowledge Economy Studies and supervises postgraduate research; lectures on short courses in disruptive technologies, digital operations, and leadership; and lectures on research methods for cybersecurity professional practice.
Kennedy Chinedu Okafor is a Senior Member, IEEE, USA; Chair of IEEE Consultants Network AG-Nigeria, and a Senior teaching researcher with the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Owerri-Nigeria. Kennedy is a World bank Faculty at the AFRICA Center of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACESPED), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Nigeria. In 2017, Kennedy received the prestigious Vice-Chancellor Award as the overall best graduating Ph. D candidate from the Faculty of Engineering, UNN. He is a Senior research associate with the University of Johannesburg and a visiting Fellow at Imperial College London. Kennedy is an expert in Smart Cyberphysical systems, and Network Security within Mechatronics sub-specialty.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research Techniques for Computer Science, Information Systems and Cybersecurity
Authors: Uche M. Mbanaso, Lucienne Abrahams, Kennedy Chinedu Okafor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30031-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30030-1Published: 25 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30033-2Due: 25 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30031-8Published: 24 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 161
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Design, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Research Skills, Business and Management, general