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.
