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MLSC 6350

Cybersecurity: Incident Planning, Response & Business Continuity · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

90BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

79thMore challenging than 79% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

95BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

78thMore work than 78% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

60BC — “Workload”2 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

In this course you will learn and develop the skills to: 1) draft an effective, proactive incident response plan, focusing on mitigation, recovery, risk management, communications, and liability, coordination with law enforcement and other government agencies, and protecting corporate brand reputation; 2) oversee and conduct a "table-top" cyber attack incident response training exercise; and 3) manage a cybersecurity incident response program. This course also provides an understanding of how to design and develop a cybersecurity program to align with private industry and government best practices and regulatory requirements (e.g., NIST, ISO, COBIT, CIS, SEC, FTC). Topics covered in the course include identifying cyber security incident response capabilities and incident handling, including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI); creating cyber security incident response policies, plans, and procedures and ; building a cyber security incident response team (CSIRT) and the roles and responsibilities of the CSIRT's members; implementing effective threat handling procedures; learning from incident response postmortems and implementing improvements within the organization; aligning the cybersecurity incident response plan to the overall business continuity plan; and presenting to senior management and the Board of Directors.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Thomas SholaAdvancing Studies Provisional	1002 records	78th	79th

There is no ranking to read here: Thomas Shola is the only instructor with evaluation records for MLSC 6350, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Thomas Shola

1 other class

Class	Instructors	Course score
ADCY 6350Incident Response and Management	419 records	89

Other MLSC classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
MLSC 6050Intersection of Cybersecurity Law, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Privacy	39 records	93
MLSC 6000Cyber Ecosystem & Security	44 records	75
MLSC 6100Foundations of U.S. Law for Non-Attorneys: Legal Principles & Ethical Obligations	24 records	91
MLSC 6640National Security: Law, Policy & Government Investigations	24 records	85
MLSC 6500Organizational Effectiveness: Cybersecurity & AI Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance	13 records	74
MLSC 6300Network Management & Infrastructure Security	12 records	77

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

100100th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

100100th pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

100100th pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

100100th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

100100th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

100100th pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

9885th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9889th pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

100100th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

100100th pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.

6078th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9579th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

9571st pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Thomas Shola	Spring 2026	01	100	90	60
Thomas Shola	Spring 2026	02	—	—	—

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.