EC-Council EDRP case studies

EC-Council EDRP · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional (E DRP) is a vendor certification positioned in EC-Council's catalog under the heading "BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY." On EC-Council's own certification roadmap the credential is listed at the specialisation tier, alongside role-focused certifications such as C PENT, C SA, ICS SCADA and E CDE, and is labelled "Disaster Recovery" with the note "Disaster Recovery Professional (E DRP)." That placement tells you the intended audience: practitioners who already hold core cybersecurity knowledge and want depth in continuity and recovery planning rather than an entry-level first certificate. EC-Council describes its certification model as combining content development, hands-on lab skill-building and a proctored exam, so candidates should expect study material plus practical exercises rather than reading alone. The EC-Council EDRP case studies are 5 cases and about 5,065 words.

Ransomware at a 310-Bed Hospital: Declared Versus Achieved RPO

Northgate Regional Health operates a 310-bed hospital with a 24x7 emergency department and a declared RTO of 4 hours for its electronic health record (EHR) and 1 hour for the laboratory information system (LIS). The DR plan states an RPO of 15 minutes for clinical systems.

1,018 words, about 5 min 2

When the BIA and the Infrastructure Team Disagree on RTO

Vantage Precision Components runs three plants on a single ERP instance (42 TB, 1,100 named users). The business owner signed a BIA declaring an RTO of 2 hours and an RPO of zero for ERP because "orders stop." Infrastructure's tested reality is 11 hours to restore from backup, 4 hours with the existing warm standby, and an estimated 2.4M in capital plus 380k per year to reach a genuine 2-hour capability.

973 words, about 5 min 3

Classifying a Failed Failover Test at a Credit Union

Fintrust Credit Union (core banking, 240,000 members, $3.1B assets) runs an annual full failover to a warm site 40 km from its primary data center. In this year's test, 78 of 86 Tier-1 services started.

1,013 words, about 5 min 4

SaaS Transport System: When the Vendor's DR Is Not Your DR

Halcyon Logistics moved its transportation management system (TMS) to a SaaS vendor 18 months ago. The contract states an RTO of 24 hours, an RPO of 1 hour, and that the vendor tests DR annually; there is no continuous data export right, only a CSV extract "on request within 30 days." The vendor runs in a single cloud region.

981 words, about 5 min 5

Hot Site 400 Metres Away as a Hurricane Approaches

Meridian Water Authority runs SCADA telemetry, billing, and customer service from a primary data center in an industrial park. Its contracted "hot site" is a second suite in the same industrial park, 400 metres away on the same electrical substation and fed by the same fiber entrance duct.

1,080 words, about 5 min