Pathways

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning

Assess existing disaster recovery strategies, identify gaps, and update contingency plans to ensure business continuity under adverse conditions.

6 Weeks
Gurmeet

Instructor

Gurmeet

What you'll learn

Conduct business impact analyses (BIA) to identify critical functions
Define and validate recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs)
Audit and identify gaps in existing DR and contingency plans
Update plans to reflect changes in infrastructure, personnel, and threat landscape
Design and run DR tests: tabletop, simulation, and full failover exercises
Align DR planning with ISO 22301 and NIST SP 800-34 standards

Requirements

  • Familiarity with IT infrastructure and cloud environments
  • Some experience in IT operations, security, or risk management
  • No prior DR planning experience required

About this course

Disaster recovery isn't a one-time exercise — it's a living programme that must evolve as your organisation and threat environment change. This course teaches you how to systematically review, stress-test, and update DR and contingency plans, drawing on business impact analysis (BIA), recovery time objectives (RTOs), and real-world failure scenarios. You'll leave with a structured methodology for keeping your organisation resilient.

Course curriculum

24 lessons
  • Disaster recovery vs. business continuity: key distinctions
  • Regulatory landscape: ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, DORA
  • RTO, RPO, MTPD: defining recovery parameters
  • Common DR failure modes and why plans go stale

Your instructors

Gurmeet

Gurmeet

Former MD, Johnson Controls

4.7 instructor rating

Gurmeet led one of Johnson Controls' largest business units across APAC, driving business transformation, operational resilience, and continuity at scale. He has built and tested business continuity and disaster recovery programmes aligned with ISO 22301 across complex regulated environments, and now mentors leaders on building organisations that keep running when the unexpected hits.

Vinit Sinha

Vinit Sinha

Director — Cybersecurity (APAC), Mastercard

4.7 instructor rating

Vinit Sinha leads cybersecurity for Mastercard's APAC region and has built ISO 22301-aligned business continuity and resilience programmes across Pine Labs, Wipro and EXL. He brings the cyber-resilience and crisis-simulation lens that pairs with Gurmeet's operational transformation experience.