The world’s most comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery certification program.
As IT environments grow more complex, IT professionals are facing unprecedented pressure to secure business-critical data. The State of Backup and Recovery Report 2025 indicates that:
- Only 40% of IT teams feel confident in their backup systems.
- About 25% of workloads lack policies that limit unauthorized access to backups, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks.
- more than 10% of businesses don’t even know how long it would take to recover their business-critical SaaS data.
EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP) is a comprehensive professional course that teaches students how to develop enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery plans. It provides the professionals with a strong understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery principles, including conducting business impact analysis, assessing of risks, developing policies and procedures, and implementing a plan.
Overview
The EDRP certification is aimed at educating and validating a candidate’s ability to plan, strategize, implement, and maintain a business continuity and disaster recovery plan.
The EDRP course identifies vulnerabilities and takes appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure risks for an organization.
It also provides the networking professional a foundation in disaster recovery course principles, including preparation of a disaster recovery plan, assessment of risks in the enterprise, development of policies and procedures, an understanding of the roles and relationships of various members of an organization, implementation of a plan, and recovering from a disaster.
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Skills Covered
- This version has a completely updated and redesigned curriculum which approaches the BC/DR domain covering the latest industry gaps, concepts, best practices, trends and technologies.
- EDRPV3 combines BC and DR into a single fluent approach which allows enterprises to gain a holistic view of their requirements.
- It provides focus to BC/DR in an IT environment, as compared to the previous version of EDRP which dealt with generic disaster recovery.
- A completely new set of labs are developed to enable attendees to gain critical experience and skills in BC/DR.
- The program is designed to provide much needed step-by-step guidance to attendees and then tests their knowledge through case studies.
- EDRPv3 addresses gaps in other BC/DR programs by providing helpful templates that are applied to BC/DR efforts in an enterprise.
- The courseware comes complete with reports and white papers sourced from some of the top practitioners of the BC/DR industry.
- Compliant to the United States National Initiative for Cyber Education
- Program framework and instructional approach is carefully architecture to follow a four-stage BCDR methodology, as practiced by the industry
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites required to attend this course.
Target Audience
- IT Professionals in the BC/DR or System Administration domain
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Consultants
- Individuals wanting to establish themselves in the field of IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- IT Risk Managers and Consultants
- CISOs and IT Directors
Module 01: Introduction to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- An Introduction to Business Continuity
- An Introduction to Disaster Recovery
- Basic Terminologies of Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
- Disaster Recovery Vs. Business Continuity
- Purpose of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Trends in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Best Practices in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Module 02: Business Continuity Management (BCM)
- What is Business Continuity
- What is BCM?
- Ownership of BCM
- Scope of BCM
- Benefits of BCM
- Business Continuity Management Framework
- Best Practices of BCM
- Business Continuity Standards
Module 03: Risk Assessment
- Terminologies Related to Risk in BCP
- What is a Risk?
- Risk Models
- Risk Assessment
- Goals of Risk Assessment
- Assessment Approaches
- Communicating and Sharing Risk Assessment Information and Results
- Maintaining the Risk Assessment
- Steps in Risk Assessment Process
- Risk Assessment Report
- Best Practices in Risk Assessment
- Risk Management Standards
- Case Study
Module 04: Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- What is Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)?
- What is Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?
- Scope and Objectives of Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- BIA Terminology
- Components of BIA
- Performing BIA
- ISO/TS 22317:2015 (Societal Security—Business Continuity Management
Systems-Guidelines for BIA) - Case Study
Module 05: Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
- Business Continuity Planning
- Characteristics of Business Continuity Plan
- Key Elements of Business Continuity Policy
- Key Elements of Business Continuity Plan as Part of its Policy
- Business Continuity Strategy Design
- Case Study for Business Continuity Strategy Design
Module 06: Data Backup Strategies
- Backup
- Need for Backup
- Types of Backup
- 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
- Hot Backup
- Cold Backup
- Types of Backup/ Recovery Sites
- Bare Metal Recovery
- Disk Backups
- Deduplication
- Cloud Data Recovery
- Cloud Disaster Recovery Blueprint
- Best Practices in Backup
Module 07: Data Recovery Strategies
- Introduction to Data Recovery
- Recovery Management
- Recovery Management Model Layers
- Types of Data Recovery
- Steps in Data Recovery
- Disk-to-Disk-to-Disaster Recovery (3DR)
- Infrastructure Technologies
- Data Protection Continuum
- Data Loss
- Best Practices in Data Recovery
Module 08: Virtualization-Based Disaster Recovery
- What is Virtualization?
- Virtualization and Disaster Recovery
- Backup of Virtual Systems
- Challenges in Virtualization Deployment
- Best Practices in Virtualization
- Virtualization Standards
- Case Study
Module 09: System Recovery
- What is System Recovery?
- System Restore in Windows 10
- Linux System Recovery
- Mac System Recovery
- Restoration of Windows Server 2012
- Recovering from a Boot issue in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Active Directory Recovery
- Verifying Active Directory Restoration
- Sysvol Recovery
- Recovery of Global Catalog Servers
- Recovery of Domain Controller
- Database Integrity Testing
- Restoring IIS Configurations
- Restoring Microsoft IIS Metabase Backup
- Restoring Exchange Server 2016
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Recovery
- Recovering from Domino Server Crashes
- Restoring MySQL Server
Module 10: Centralized and Decentralized System Recovery
- Introduction
- Centralized Computing
- Centralized Computing Architecture
- Decentralized Computing
- Decentralized Computing Architecture
- Differences between Centralized Computing and Decentralized Computing
- Survivable Storage Systems
Module 11: Disaster Recovery Planning Process
- Introduction to Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Need for Disaster Recovery Planning
- Factors Affecting the Disaster Recovery (DR) Strategy
- Components of a Disaster Recovery Plan Strategy
- Disaster Recovery Planning Process
- DR Planning Methodology
- Disaster Recovery Lifecycle
- Tiers of Disaster Recovery
- Data Protection and Recovery Strategy
- Establishing a Disaster Recovery Plan
- Develop a Disaster Recovery Team Structure
- Disaster Recovery Plan Testing
- DR Plan Implementation
Module 12: BCP Testing, Maintenance, and Training
- Business Continuity Plan Testing
- Elements of the BCP Test Plan
- Maintaining the Business Continuity Plan
- Auditing the Business Continuity Plan
- BCP Training
- Implementing Business Continuity Training Program
- Establishing a BC Training Program
- Value of BC Training
- BC Training Evaluation
Dates & Locations
June 29, 2026 - July 3, 2026
June 29, 2026 - July 3, 2026
September 7, 2026 - September 11, 2026
September 7, 2026 - September 11, 2026
December 7, 2026 - December 11, 2026
December 7, 2026 - December 11, 2026
Exam & Certification
EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professionals Certified.
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