EDRP iLabs at $99: The Certification Nobody Wants Until They Need It

EC-Council lists EDRP iLabs at $199. We sell the same official labs for $99.

Six months. Half price.

The least glamorous certification in security, and the one that saves companies

Nobody grows up wanting to write a business continuity plan.

But look at what actually kills organisations after a serious incident. It isn't usually the breach — it's the four days afterwards where nothing works, nobody knows who decides what, the backups turn out to be untested, and the recovery order was never written down. The intrusion is an event. The outage is what does the damage.

EDRP is the discipline that turns that four days into four hours. And it's the reason ransomware negotiations end differently for different companies: the ones who restore don't pay.

What you'll practise

The labs run across the EDRP curriculum:

Introduction to disaster recovery and business continuity — the vocabulary and the frameworks.

Business Continuity Management (BCM) — building the programme rather than the document.

Risk assessment — identifying vulnerabilities and the countermeasures that mitigate failure risk.

Business Impact Analysis (BIA) — the analytical core. What does an hour of downtime cost, per system? Which processes cannot stop? This is where RTO and RPO stop being acronyms and start being numbers you can defend to a CFO.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP).

Data backup strategies and data recovery strategies — two distinct modules, because they are two distinct problems. Everyone has backups. Far fewer have restores that work under pressure.

Virtualisation-based disaster recovery.

System recovery, plus centralised and decentralised system recovery — the architectural difference that determines how fast you come back.

Disaster recovery planning process — preparation, roles, relationships, and the responsibilities of each member of the organisation.

BCP testing, maintenance, and training. The module that matters most and gets skipped most. An untested plan isn't a plan; it's a document.

What's included

• Official EC-Council iLabs, 6 months from activation
• Step-by-step hands-on guide for every lab
• Browser-based — nothing to install, works from anywhere

Who this is for

• Business continuity and disaster recovery planners
• IT managers who own recovery and have never rehearsed it
• Network professionals who need a DR foundation
• Risk and compliance staff
• Anyone preparing for the EDRP exam (312-76)
• Organisations that discovered during their last incident that nobody knew what to do

Why this one is worth a look even though it isn't fashionable

EDRP courseware has been certified by the NSA and CNSS against the 4012, 4013A, 4014, 4015 and 4016 federal training standards — a recognition that most certifications never obtain and that opens doors in government and regulated environments.

There's also a supply argument. Everyone chases pen testing. Very few people can walk into a boardroom and explain, with numbers, what an outage costs per hour and how long recovery will take. That skill is scarce, it's non-technical enough to survive automation, and it's the one executives fund without arguing.

The exam

Common questions

Is this the genuine EC-Council platform? Yes. Same iLabs EC-Council sells directly.

How long is access? Six months from activation.

Is EDRP technical? Partly. It sits between IT and management, which is precisely why so few people cover both sides of it well.

Does this include the exam? No. Lab access only.

Get EDRP iLabs — $99