This course requires the development of a real world project that responds to an IT organizational need. The project is undertaken by a team of students. An iterative approach is used to incrementally address the project requirements while constructing a prototype of the IT solution to the original problem.

Student learning in this course focuses on the development and application of professional computing competencies. To achieve this goal, students will engage in project management activities, collaborate with peers and participate in teamwork, give presentations and receive feedback, make effective use of appropriate tools and platforms, and gain practice with test-driven iterative development and version control.

Topics include general security principles and practices, network and system security, access control methodology, and cryptography. Students develop a basic cryptographic system based on sound mathematical principles, elaborate on its features and refine it, and experiment with various ways to attack it. Some programming required.

In this course students gain practical experience developing data-oriented applications in modern infrastructure frameworks, also known as cloud data solutions. Guided by what a data scientist profile is, students become familiar with the use cases of data oriented applications. They will apply key data modeling and data design concepts to meet business requirements. Students will also apply modern software development to iteratively construct solutions using established reference architectures. Project work will be based in Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.