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MSc Midwest SME Cyber Operations (On campus)

Frontier Innovation University

Frontier Innovation University

Master's

MSc Midwest SME Cyber Operations (On campus)

Frontier Innovation University

Austin, US

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Tuition

$3,200/year (on campus)

Degree

M.Sc.

Delivery

Full-time · On-campus

Duration

2 years (18 mo)

Language & requirements

Taught in: English

Tuition fees

  • INTERNATIONAL$3,200/year (on campus)

About Frontier Innovation University

Affordable US innovation university in Austin, Texas.

Overview

This MSc is for IT leads and operations managers in Upper Midwest small and mid-size firms—job shops, clinics, credit unions, and campuses—who must run cyber as operations, not as a conference badge. Frontier Innovation University will not award CISSP, will not teach exploit development as a product, and will not put vendor or agency seals on the page. You will design patch and backup cadence, vendor-access rules, and incident comms a plant manager can follow. Tuition-free online and Austin campus share identity-checked assessment. Capstones use SME-scale constraints, not a fictional Fortune-50 SOC.

Delivered on campus in Austin with in-person seminars, library access, and student services.

**Award:** Frontier Innovation University **Credits:** 36 | **Typical duration:** 2 years (18 months)

Course structure

4 terms · 16 modules · 36 credits

Module 1: SME reality

  • MLT1301·Asset Inventories that a 40-Person Firm Can Maintain
    3 credits
  • MLT1302·Ransomware as an Operations and Cash Problem
    3 credits
  • MLT1303·Identity, Email, and Backup as the Actual Perimeter
    3 credits
  • MLT1304·Ethics and Law Literacy (Not a Hacking Licence)
    3 credits

Module 2: Cadence

  • MLT1305·Patch, Change, and Maintenance Windows on a Plant Calendar
    3 credits
  • MLT1306·Logging that Someone Will Actually Read
    3 credits
  • MLT1307·Tabletop Exercises without Hollywood Scripts
    3 credits
  • MLT1308·Winter Staffing and Single-Admin Failure
    3 credits

Module 3: Others on your network

  • MLT1309·MSP Contracts, Access, and Exit
    3 credits
  • MLT1310·OT-Adjacent Caution without PE Pretence
    3 credits
  • MLT1311·Vendors, Clinics, and Credit-Union Constraints
    3 credits
  • MLT1312·Insurance Questionnaires as Management Data
    3 credits

Module 4: Capstone

  • MLT1313·Board and Owner Briefings in Plain Language
    3 credits
  • MLT1314·Incident Comms and Regulator-Adjacent Honesty
    3 credits
  • MLT1315·Public Claims: No Fake Agency Seals
    3 credits
  • MLT1316·Capstone: Midwest SME Cyber Operations Playbook
    3 credits

Learning outcomes

  • Apply discipline-specific theory to complex professional problems
  • Design and execute research or applied projects to postgraduate standard
  • Communicate findings clearly to academic and industry audiences
  • Demonstrate ethical, inclusive practice in global workplaces
Apply at Frontier Innovation University →University website

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