Forthcoming
Public Policy
The study and practice of public governance, regulatory design, and the institutions that shape collective life. To convene in a future term.
Convening date to be announced
Section II
Areas
of Study.
The School begins in three disciplines, with further schools convening in later terms. All are governed by the same method and held to the same standard.
Plate. Cybersecurity
Of Defence
Certified in Cybersecurity
Practised in the manner of those who define the field.
The principles, practice, and operational discipline of defending information systems. Graduates sit for industry certification and enter the working profession of security.
After the Manner of
IBM Security · Cisco · Palo Alto Networks · Fortinet · CrowdStrike · Mandiant · Cloudflare.
Of the Curriculum
- 01.The principles of security, confidentiality, integrity, availability
- 02.Business continuity, disaster recovery, and the response to incident
- 03.Access control, identity, and the management of privilege
- 04.Network security, segmentation, and defence in depth
- 05.Security operations, the watch, the alert, the response
- 06.Risk, governance, and the ethics of the profession
- 07.Preparation for industry certification, taken upon completion
Plate. Projects
Of Applied Practice
Cyber Projects
Practised in the manner of those who define the field.
Hands-on engagement with real defensive and offensive scenarios, labs, capture-the-flag, incident response simulations, and a capstone done in cohort.
After the Manner of
CTFtime · DEF CON CTF tradition · MITRE ATT&CK · the open-source security toolchain.
Of the Curriculum
- 01.Capture-the-flag exercises and adversary simulation
- 02.Defensive lab work, building, breaking, hardening
- 03.Incident response from first alert through post-mortem
- 04.Penetration testing methodology and the ethics thereof
- 05.Tool-building in the small, scripts, automation, monitoring
- 06.A cohort capstone, presented in colloquium
Plate. IT Management
Of the Profession
Information Technology Management
Practised in the manner of those who define the field.
The foundations of the computing profession systems, networks, operations paired with the management discipline that turns technicians into leaders.
After the Manner of
IBM · Microsoft · Apple · Cisco · Oracle · Hewlett-Packard · AWS · Google · Dell.
Of the Curriculum
- 01.The architecture and operation of the modern computer
- 02.Operating systems, Windows, Linux, and the Unix tradition
- 03.Networking, the Internet, and the protocols by which they function
- 04.Databases and the structured representation of data
- 05.The discipline of running an IT function, people, budget, vendors
- 06.Information security as a property of every system
- 07.The professions of information technology, and the paths into them
Forthcoming
§ III.
Further disciplines are in preparation, to convene in later terms under the same method and the same standard. A preview of the next two appears below; others are in design and will be announced as they near convening.
Forthcoming
Business & Finance
The disciplines of enterprise, accounting, finance, strategy, and the operating practice of building and stewarding a business. To convene in a future term.
Convening date to be announced
… and further schools, as the institution matures. Each will be announced when ready, never before.
On Tuition
§ IV.
Tuition is disclosed in the application for admission.
We prefer a real conversation about cost, about scholarship, about deferred payment, about the family circumstances that may bear upon it. Need-based aid is available for every discipline. No student admitted to the School should be unable to attend by reason of money alone.