Overview

Creating Secure and Scalable Software aims to introduce students to contemporary frameworks for developing software, and strategies, patterns, and frameworks to help address security and scalability issues.

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Build and deploy secure and scalable application using contemporary frameworks
  • Explain and apply strategies, patterns and frameworks to address a range of scalability issues
  • Explain and apply strategies, patterns and frameworks to address a range of security issues
  • Use contemporary tools to evaluate the scalability of applications
  • Use contemporary approaches to evaluate the security considerations of applications

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture		2.00 12 weeks 24
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial Labs		2.00 12 weeks 24
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		8.50 12 weeks 102
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 100% 1,2,3,4 
TestIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4,5 

Content

  • Architecture for scaling up and out
  • Patterns and structures for scalability
  • Security with authentication and authorisation
  • Encryption and signing
  • Contemporary technology frameworks

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.