What Skills You’ll Learn
After completing the EDRP course, the student will be able to:
- ✓ Define and differentiate between Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) concepts in enterprise environments.
- ✓ Explain organizational resilience principles and their role in continuity planning.
- ✓ Identify key BC/DR standards, regulations, and legal requirements impacting organizations.
- ✓ Analyze strategic approaches for aligning BC and DR programs with business objectives.
- ✓ Apply best practices for designing and maintaining effective BC and DR frameworks.
- ✓ Assess emerging technologies and their impact on operational resilience strategies.
- ✓ Describe the Business Continuity Management (BCM) lifecycle and PDCA model.
- ✓ Conduct business impact analysis (BIA) and interpret its outputs for decision-making.
- ✓ Identify critical business functions, dependencies, and recovery priorities.
- ✓ Perform risk assessments and classify threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts.
- ✓ Develop risk treatment strategies aligned with organizational risk appetite.
- ✓ Map dependencies and analyze cascading risks across business and IT environments.
- ✓ Establish recovery objectives such as RTO, RPO, and MTD based on business needs.
- ✓ Develop and maintain a Business Continuity Plan aligned with organizational requirements.
- ✓ Design crisis management and communication strategies during disruptions.
- ✓ Construct disaster recovery plans covering IT systems, applications, and data recovery.
- ✓ Evaluate disaster recovery strategies, including cloud, hybrid, and automated recovery models.
- ✓ Implement data backup and restoration strategies using modern technologies.
- ✓ Differentiate between backup models such as full, incremental, differential, and CDP.
- ✓ Assess and select appropriate recovery tools, platforms, and architectures.
- ✓ Understand cloud-based, virtualization, and container-based recovery approaches.
- ✓ Apply best practices for secure, reliable, and efficient data recovery operations.
- ✓ Determine conditions for activating BC/DR plans based on risk and impact thresholds.
- ✓ Execute plan activation procedures, including escalation, coordination, and communication.
- ✓ Coordinate incident response activities using structured command and control frameworks.
- ✓ Conduct BCDR testing, training, and exercises to validate readiness and effectiveness.
- ✓ Measure and improve organizational resilience using KPIs, audits, and continuous improvement models.
AI Integrated Skills:
- ✓ Integrate AI-based tools to support risk analysis and decision-making in continuity planning.
- ✓ Utilize AI-enabled monitoring and early warning systems for disruption detection.
- ✓ Understand how AI, automation, and analytics enhance modern operational resilience.
- ✓ Evaluate the role of AI, ML, and AIOps in modern business continuity and disaster recovery operations.






