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Lead Disaster Recovery Manager: DRP Development, Testing, and Activation
This Lead Disaster Recovery Manager course is available eLearning and can be started at any time. Available in EN. Learn at your own pace with no fixed schedule.
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Exam Included · Certification Available
ICT Continuity Manager
Produce DORA-compliant DRP documentation and test evidence
IT Infrastructure Manager
Convert technical runbooks into a governance-grade recovery plan
GRC Consultant
Add DR planning credentials to BIA and risk assessment service offerings
Train with practitioners. Pass with confidence.
Abilene Academy is the only PECB Titanium Partner in Switzerland — the highest accreditation tier in the industry — delivering certified training in information security, data protection, AI governance, and GRC compliance. 99% exam pass rate. 2,500+ professionals trained across 120+ countries and trusted by 600+ organizations. Multilingual programmes available.
ISO 22301 Lead Implementer · ISO 22301 Lead Auditor · ISO 27001 Lead Implementer · ISO 27005 Risk Manager · EBIOS Risk Manager
Expert in Business Continuity, Risk Management and Information Security Governance Consulting for large multinational corporations, government organization and internal organizations Certified international trainer and Lecturer at Sorbonne University Paris 1
ISO 22301 Lead Implementer · ISO 22301 Lead Auditor · ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager · ISO 37301 Lead Implementer · Lead Crisis Manager
Corporate business continuity management and risk management expert with over 20 years’ experience in FMCG companies. Leading BCM implementation diverse geopolitical environments. Managed call centres around the world for almost 10 year.
Regulatory frameworks across Europe increasingly require organizations to demonstrate operational resilience, not just policy documentation. DORA, effective from January 2025, mandates ICT continuity testing and documented recovery capabilities for financial entities. NIS2 extends similar obligations to essential and important entities across eleven sectors. In this context, having a DRP on paper is no longer sufficient: regulators and auditors expect evidence of tested recovery strategies, defined RTOs and RPOs, and accountable recovery teams. Professionals who cannot produce that evidence expose their organizations to supervisory sanctions and reputational risk.
During the five-day training, participants do not study theory in isolation. They work through the full lifecycle of a DRP project: defining scope and objectives, building an asset inventory, conducting a business impact analysis, completing a risk assessment, and selecting recovery strategies matched to business criticality. On Day 3, participants draft and structure DRP documentation and design communication and coordination protocols for their supporting infrastructure. Day 4 shifts to execution: participants run disaster recovery tests and exercises, practice DRP activation under simulated incident conditions, and apply damage assessment and containment procedures before conducting a post-recovery review.
Most DR training stops at strategy design and hands participants a template. This training addresses the gaps that matter operationally: how to document accountability chains when multiple teams share recovery ownership, how to structure test evidence that satisfies both internal audit and external regulators, and how to conduct a post-incident review that produces actionable improvement tasks rather than a narrative report. Participants also work through communication and coordination challenges that cut across IT, operations, and senior management, the dimension most DR plans handle poorly.
Participants leave able to lead a DRP project from initiation through post-recovery review, defend their documentation to auditors and senior stakeholders, and manage a recovery team during activation. The PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager credential, which requires 5 years of professional experience including 2 in ICT disaster recovery and 300 hours of DR project experience, signals to employers and clients that the holder operates at program leadership level, not just technical execution.
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