Course Description

The EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP) course provides the skills and knowledge required to plan, implement, and manage effective disaster recovery and business continuity strategies. This program trains learners to protect organizational data, maintain operations during disruptions, and recover critical systems after cyberattacks, natural disasters, system failures, or human-related incidents.

EDRP teaches industry best practices, global standards, and practical methodologies used worldwide to build resilient infrastructures. Learners understand how to analyze risks, assess business impact, develop contingency plans, and execute recovery procedures efficiently.
This course is ideal for IT managers, cybersecurity professionals, system administrators, network engineers, and anyone responsible for continuity and recovery planning.

 Key Highlights / Key Points  End-to-End Disaster Recovery Lifecycle

• Learn the full DR cycle: risk assessment, preparation, response, recovery, and restoration.

• Understand threats like cyberattacks, hardware failure, natural disasters, and operational disruption.

 Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

• Develop business continuity strategies aligned with international frameworks.

• Learn how to ensure uninterrupted operations during crises.

 Disaster Recovery Planning

• Create DR plans for data centers, servers, cloud platforms, networks, and enterprise systems.

• Understand RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) planning.

 Data Backup & Restoration

• Explore backup types: full, incremental, differential, cloud-based, and offsite backups.

• Hands-on practice with data restoration and continuity tests.

 High Availability & Redundancy

• Understand failover systems, clustering, replication, and load balancing.

• Learn how to design fault-tolerant infrastructure.

 Crisis Management & Incident Response

• Build communication procedures, emergency response steps, and crisis leadership strategies.

• Coordinate recovery teams and maintain stakeholder communication.

Global Standards & Compliance

• Learn DR/BCP guidelines such as ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, and industry best practices.

• Develop audit-ready documentation and compliance reports.