Sustainable Development through Renewable Resources

Abstract

In today’s digital era, cyber threats are increasingly complex and frequent, challenging traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) that rely on static rules and signatures. To overcome these challenges, integrating machine learning (ML) techniques into cybersecurity offers a more adaptive and accurate approach for detecting and classifying threats. This paper proposes a two-stage ML-based system that uses structured network traffic features to first detect whether activity is malicious (binary classification) and then identify the specific type of attack (multiclass classification) such as DDoS, PortScan, or Ransomware. Several ML algorithms—Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and XGBoost—are implemented and evaluated using standard metrics. A user-friendly web interface built with Streamlit allows easy dataset upload, preprocessing, prediction, and visualization, making the system accessible for both researchers and cybersecurity professionals. The study shows that ensemble models like Random Forest and XGBoost perform best in classifying cyber threats. The system addresses the limitations of traditional IDS by offering adaptability, detailed threat categorization, and modularity for future upgrades, such as real-time monitoring and integration with automated response tools. It is implemented in Python using widely adopted libraries, emphasizing usability, scalability, and practical deployment in real-world cyber defense scenarios.

Introduction

India, as a rapidly developing nation, faces a huge energy demand to fuel its economy while striving for sustainable development. Committed to clean energy and climate change mitigation, India is transitioning from fossil fuels—major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and health risks—towards renewable energy sources. Currently, India consumes vast amounts of energy primarily from coal, oil, and natural gas, but it is increasing its focus on renewables like solar, wind, hydro, biofuels, and emerging technologies such as green hydrogen.

India is the world’s third-largest renewable energy producer, with renewables making up about 42% of its electricity capacity and significant potential still untapped, especially in solar and wind. States like Gujarat have successfully increased renewable energy shares, while government schemes like PM-KUSUM promote solar energy use among farmers, enhancing income and energy access.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, along with specialized institutes, supports renewable energy development through financial and policy measures. Key initiatives include the National Solar Mission and the National Hydrogen Mission. The future direction emphasizes education, research, international cooperation, and policy incentives to further strengthen renewable energy deployment and address climate change sustainably.

Conclusion

As a developing nation India has a massive demand for energy to fuel its rapidly growing economy and developmental needs. However, the country has always been committed to looking for more alternative energy sources for sustainable development. Therefore, it has been promoting clean energy resources and making efforts to deal with climate change. Sustainable Development, as defined by the United Nations, is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The scale, spread and pace of development has posed an inevitable challenge of balancing the spirit of human endeavour to conquer new heights without compromising the fundamental principles of sustainable development.The ever?increasing need for energy for both human and economic growth has coincided with an increase in the variety of sources that may be used to generate energy. The generation and use of these energy resources are the primary contributors to the release of greenhouse gases all around the planet. Since, emissions of greenhouse gases are one of the primary causes of climate change, nations all over the globe are making concerted efforts to transition to cleaner forms of energy by altering the processes by which energy is generated.The shift towards renewable energy has the potential to make countries self?sufficient in terms of energy security. Considering its possibility to de-carbonise the energy system and ensure self-sufficiency,recent years have seen a rise in interest in clean energy as various economies and nations seek to reduce their reliance on highly polluting fossil fuels.

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Copyright © 2025 Dr. Prakash Kumar Singh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.