In-depth analysis of security and privacy issues. Secure network design, risks and vulnerabilities, responding to security breaches, host/server and physical security, and encryption technologies. Prerequisites: ITC 520.

Study the architecture and algorithms of state-of-art cloud computing and related services such as distributed computing, virtualization, storage, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, data handling, and cloud software tools. Prerequisites: ITC 510.

Foundation of big data and data analytics lifecycle, structured and unstructured data, analytic methods, MapReduce programming model, big data analytics technologies and tools. Prerequisites: ITC 510.

A project-based implementation of a non-trivial information technology system solution based on best practices for analysis, design, development, testing, and documentation. Prerequisites: 6 graduate credit hours in CPS/ITC or 3 graduate credit hours and admission into an ITC graduate certificate program.