Spring 2025 Th 7:00pm - 9:40pm Karthikeyan Chandrashekar
Software engineering concepts, methods, and practices important to both the theorist and the practitioner will be covered. The entire range of responsibilities expected of a software engineer are presented. The fundamental areas of requirements ... development, software design, programming languages, and testing are covered extensively. Sessions on supporting areas such as systems engineering, project management, and software estimation are also included.
Prerequisite: Competency in one programming language and must have completed an undergraduate software engineering course or permission of course instructor.

Covers the software design process, from understanding the need or problem, to creating suitable architecture and detailed design solutions, to preserving and evolving the design during implementation and maintenance. The main study topics ... include: requirements analysis models; user centered design; architecture design through decomposition and composition; architecture styles and architecture tactics for supporting various quality attributes such as security and usability; design for reuse and with reuse; detailed design object-oriented principles (such as SOLID) and design patterns; approaches for evaluating, comparing, and selecting design solutions; standard notations for documenting architecture views, detailed design, and analysis models; and industry standards for creating design deliverables. Students will acquire not only technical knowledge, but also soft skills such as communication, collaborations, critical thinking, leadership, negotiation, and time management.
Prerequisite: ENPM611.

Exploration of how such a variety of devices can use a big range of technologies to connect seamlessly to each other. In the second half of the course we translate the basic knowledge of the protocols to more hands-on exercises in containerization ... (Docker) and at the end we give an introduction to Kubernetes, that is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications.
Prerequisite: ENPM602

Formerly ENPM809A. The goal of this course is to provide students with a foundational understanding of cryptography as used in the real world. Students will learn about private-key encryption, message authentication codes, key-exchange protocols, ... public-key encryption, and digital signatures, in addition to learning about underlying primitives such as pseudorandom number generators, block ciphers, and hash functions. In addition, the course will cover the “cryptographic mindset,” including formal threat modeling and proofs of security. The course will emphasize real-world usage of cryptography by discussing standards and best practices, and through programming assignments meant to reinforce the concepts covered in class. No prior background in cryptography will be assumed; however, students will be expected to have mathematical maturity and knowledge of C programming. Learning outcomes: Understanding of basic cryptographic primitives and schemes, and when they are appropriate. Ability to carry out basic security analysis of new constructions. Knowledge of current best practices and standards for the use of cryptography. Ability to implement basic cryptographic functionality.

Spring 2025 M 4:00pm - 6:40pm Edward Condon
The first half of lectures provides an overview of cybersecurity. One third of these lectures focuses on the fundamentals of cybersecurity like authentication, access control, and security models. The second third focuses on the practice of ... cybersecurity using Unix and Windows NT as case studies. The last third is dedicated to security in distributed systems including network security, and World Wide Web security. The second half of the lectures focuses on the information assurance process. First, information assets are enumerated and classified. Second, the main vulnerabilities and threats are identified. Third, a risk assessment is conducted by considering the probability and impact of the undesired events. Finally, a risk management plan is developed that includes countermeasures involving mitigating, eliminating, accepting, or transferring the risks, and considers prevention, detection, and response.
Previously offered as ENPM808E.

Spring 2025 W 4:00pm - 6:40pm Majid Raissi-Dehkordi
This course is an introduction to the diverse field of cryptography and network security. We start by an introduction to the principles of cryptography and review common encryption standards as the basis for many security protocols. We review ... current standards for cryptography, hash functions, message authentication, digital signatures, as well as certificates and key management. The second part of the course reviews some of the well-known security protocols at different network layers (Application, Transport, IP, and MAC) as examples of how fundamental concepts are utilized for providing the corresponding security requirements. The course combines theoretical discussions and hands-on assignments to provide the students with a longer lasting understanding of the concepts.
Prerequisite: An operating systems and/or network protocol course or equivalent. Formerly: ENPM808N.

This class will introduce fundamentals of machine learning techniques and deep dive in cutting edge concepts that enabled neural networks to achieve state of the art performance in many visual, textual, and biomedical problems. Fundamental ... concepts like feed forward networks, convolution networks, recurrent neural networks, back propagation, loss functions, batch gradient descent, and stochastic optimization will be studied. Students will have hands-on experience with state-of-the-art deep learning frameworks like Keras/TensorFlow/PyTorch to build, evaluate, use, and debug these networks for real life applications.

Communication & Signal Processing
This course covers the fundamental aspects of Internet of Things (IoT) including IoT architecture, network protocols, data management and access technologies, IoT security threats and technologies

Computer Engineering
The course will teach the algorithms, heuristics, and code development skills in solving numerous sorting, graph theory, string processing, and job scheduling problems. It provides both a broad coverage of basic algorithms and data structures ... and in-depth coverage on selected topics. Moderate to heavy programming in C is expected. Through this study the students will improve their problem solving skills via various algorithm development examples and exercises.

The course focuses on tools and techniques to remotely and programmatically configure and manage network devices. Topics will include: structured data formats and data models, JSON, XML, YAML, YANG. Machine to machine communication: remote ... procedure calls, RESTful APIs and device configuration protocols such as NETCONF and RESTCONF. Configuring and managing Juniper network devices with Python using the pyEZ library. Ansible architecture, configuration, playbook creation and special modules. The students will work on a group project to design, build and test a network configuration and monitoring system in Python.
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