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 services such as distributed computing, virtualization, storage, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, MapReduce 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.

Current topics in information technology. Development, demonstration, and presentation of research and application projects. Prerequisites: 12 hours of graduate courses in ITC.