Computer Application Security (Optional Co-op)

• Hours: 1
• Credits: 0
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $210.15

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

An important component of application and organizational security is the understanding of the rights and obligations of both the individual and the organization with respect to privacy and intellectual property. In this course students will explore ethics and law, including both Canadian law and the law of other jurisdictions, for the ways ethics and law inform the best practices of security professionals and organizations. Students will learn to assess the implications of new application development as well as the choice of supporting technologies, such as cloud computing, with respect to both vulnerabilities and liabilities of an organization. Students in this course will discuss topics such as Big Data, organized hacking, government surveillance, and industrial espionage.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 14
• Credits: 1
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Modern business organizations require the synthesis of many levels of security measures, including physical and network security, as well as the management of security practices. In this course, students explore management techniques as they are applied to corporate and organizational security. In addition to the basic techniques of IT management that include motivation, controlling and planning, students also study tools and skills for securing organizations, including risk and asset management, threat modeling, the development of security policies and procedures, auditing and employee training.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

In this capstone course, students will use skills acquired throughout the program in order to develop an applied project or prepare a research paper that will be based on the fields of software development, networking or management from a security perspective. The project will synthesize knowledge, apply knowledge in a new way, or bring new knowledge to its field. Students will have the opportunity to research a topic or develop a project for a business client, or they can pursue a topic of their own choice.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
• Pre-Requisites: INFO8570 OR INFO8571 AND PROG8270 OR PROG8271
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: PROG8270 OR PROG8271
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: PROG8270 OR PROG8271
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: PROG8270 OR PROG8271
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.