[2][3] Frincke began her career as a professor of computer science at the University of Idaho.

In these roles, she led a worldwide multiservice military and civilian, corporate-level learning organization while also providing executive steering of four Service schools and 20 satellite campuses across the global enterprise.

[5] Frincke is the first female head of the research directorate at the agency,[6] and has spoken out about the importance of diverse perspectives in computer security.

[7][8] In 2017 Frincke won the Founders Award of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education.

[9] She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions in education, the practice of research, and the leadership of cybersecurity".