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Advanced Professional Certificate in IT Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience (ISO 27031 and NIST)
The Advanced Professional Certificate in IT Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience (ISO 27031 and
NIST) equips technology and resilience leaders to design, implement, and assure recovery
capabilities that withstand disruption and cyberattacks.
Course Overview
The Advanced Professional Certificate in IT Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience (ISO 27031 and
NIST) equips technology and resilience leaders to design, implement, and assure recovery
capabilities that withstand disruption and cyberattacks. Grounded in ISO 27031 (ICT readiness for
business continuity) and complementary NIST guidance, the programme develops defensible
RTO/RPO targets, endtoend recovery architectures, runbooks, and exercising regimes—so
organisations restore critical services safely, quickly, and audibly after incidents.
Why This Course is Important?
- Ransomware era: Traditional backups are not enough; you need immutability, isolation, and rehearsed recovery.
- Board assurance: Clear, tested recovery capabilities reduce operational, regulatory, and reputational risk.
- Cloud complexity: Hybrid estates require coherent patterns across IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and onprem.
- Auditready evidence: Demonstrable testing, metrics, and documentation stand up to clients and regulators.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:
- Translate business criticality and RTO/RPO/MTPD into recovery tiers and service recovery plans.
- Design layered backup and recovery strategies (321, immutability, airgap) and validate restorability.
- Architect resilient platforms across data centre and cloud (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) with failover, replication, and DR orchestration.
- Integrate cyber resilience controls: segmentation/zerotrust, privileged access controls, malware containment, and secure restore.
- Produce executable DR runbooks for applications, data, networks, and identity; define roles, sequences, and decision points.
- Plan and conduct exercises (tabletop, technical, full failover), capture evidence, and manage corrective actions.
- Align IT DR with ISO 22301 BCMS, incident response, and crisis communications; establish governance, metrics, and reporting.
Target Audience
- IT/Cloud/Platform/Infrastructure leaders and architects
- DR/BCM managers, Security/Incident Response and SOC leaders
- Application owners, DBAs, Network/Identity engineers
- Internal Audit, Compliance, and Service Assurance professionals
Entry Requirements
- Prior exposure to IT operations, security, or business continuity recommended.
- Proficiency in English (IELTS 5.5 or equivalent suggested).
- Comfortable working with architecture diagrams, CMDBs, and change processes.
Programme Structure & Modules
- ISO 27031 purpose and link to ISO 22301/27001
- NIST perspectives (e.g., SP 80034 rev.1 contingency planning; SP 80053 control families)
- Policy, ownership, service tiers, and assurance model
- From BIA to RTO/RPO/MTPD and recovery tiers
- Dependency mapping: apps, data, identity, networks, suppliers
- 321 patterns, immutability, airgap/vaulting, snapshots
- Database/log strategies; SaaS data protection; key management
- Onprem to cloud DR; activeactive/activepassive; runbooks
- DNS/GSLB, network failover, identity (IdP) recovery, and order of operations
- Zerotrust/segmentation, PAM breakglass, eDiscovery of compromise
- Cleanroom rebuilds; malwaresafe restore; evidence preservation
- Tabletops, technical restores, full failover; success criteria
- Automation, chaos engineering concepts, test data handling, and artefact capture
- Change control, configuration drift, CMDB accuracy
- KRIs/KPIs (restore success rate, time to recover, coverage), reporting to risk/audit
- Assessing vendor DR commitments (SLAs, RPO/RTO) and shared responsibility
- Contracts, due diligence, and monitoring of MSPs/SaaS
Awarding Body
Whitestone International College of Innovation
United Kingdom
Qualification Type
Advanced Professional Certificate
(Industry-aligned, regulated qualification issued by Whitestone International College of Innovation, UK)
Delivery Mode
Classroom – London (UK) / Dubai (UAE) campuses
Live Online – Instructor-led virtual sessions
Blended Learning –Pre-study resources + workshops + capstone project
Duration
4 days (intensive) or 2 weeks (parttime)
CPD Hours: 28–32 hours
- Assessment: Practical exercises + recovery drill design + capstone runbook and presentation
- Certification: Successful participants receive the Advanced Professional Certificate in IT Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience (ISO 27031 and NIST) from Whitestone International College ofInnovation (UK).
- Readytouse runbook templates, dependency maps, test scripts, and evidence registers
- Faster, safer, and auditable recovery from cyber and operational incidents
- UKissued advanced certificate supporting senior resilience and platform roles
- Clear progression to Professional Diplomas and Certification
Aligned with ISO 27031 (ICT Readiness for Business Continuity) and complementary NIST guidance (e.g., SP 80034 Rev.1 Contingency Planning, SP 80053 control families) at an advanced practitioner level, and integrated with ISO 22301, ISO 27001/27002, and incident response good practice.
Programme Fees
Clear Fee Structure With No Hidden Costs
£
675
Per Course
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Industry-focused programmes with global standards.
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Practical skills for real-world success.
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Academic excellence with career-ready outcomes.
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