DR Hardening Workshop
RCCE students will learn disaster recovery planning, implementation, and testing including recovery strategy development, recovery site design (hot/warm/cold), data replication, failover/failback procedures, and recovery testing. RCCE students will learn to conduct business impact analysis to determine recovery time and recovery point objectives, design disaster recovery architectures that meet organizational requirements, implement data replication and backup strategies, develop and document disaster recovery procedures, conduct disaster recovery tests and exercises, evaluate test results and update plans accordingly, and integrate disaster recovery with business continuity and crisis management programs. This hands-on hardening course focuses on reducing attack surface through practical configuration changes and security guardrails. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn to apply hardening baselines, validate configurations, and measure the security improvement achieved. Students walk away with actionable hardening checklists and the skills to maintain hardened configurations as environments evolve.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing DR Hardening Workshop
- Execute hands-on tasks for disaster recovery planning, implementation & hardening
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Explain Executive Overview fundamentals — covering DR ensures rapid restoration after disruptive events.
- Execute hands-on tasks for business continuity — covering Protect revenue streams.
- Execute hands-on tasks for regulatory compliance — covering NIST 800-34 / 800-53.
- Execute hands-on tasks for operational resilience — covering Minimize downtime exposure.
- Measure attack surface reduction and program effectiveness — covering Quantify recovery costs.
- Execute hands-on tasks for identify critical
- Execute hands-on tasks for → assess impact
- Execute hands-on tasks for over time
- Execute hands-on tasks for rto & rpo objectives deep dive — covering Maximum acceptable downtime.
- Execute hands-on tasks for rpo - recovery point objective — covering Maximum acceptable downtime.
| Module 01 | Disaster Recovery Planning, Implementation & Hardening |
| Module 02 | Advanced Cyber Defense Mastery |
| Module 03 | Executive Overview |
| Module 04 | Business Continuity |
| Module 05 | Regulatory Compliance |
| Module 06 | Operational Resilience |
| Module 07 | Risk Reduction |
| Module 08 | Identify Critical |
| Module 09 | → Assess Impact |
| Module 10 | Over Time |
| Module 11 | RTO & RPO Objectives Deep Dive |
| Module 12 | RPO - Recovery Point Objective |
| Module 13 | Recovery Strategy Development |
| Module 14 | 1. Assess Requirements |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice dr hardening workshop by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for disaster recovery planning, implementation & hardening
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Lab 3: Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for business continuity
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for regulatory compliance
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for DR Hardening Workshop, verifiable through the Rocheston certification portal.
- Full access to all course materials and slide decks
- Hands-on lab access on Rocheston Rose X OS environment
- Access to Rocheston CyberNotes
- Access to Rocheston Zelfire — EDR/XDR SIEM platform
- Access to Rocheston Raven — online cyber range exercise platform
- Access to Rocheston Vulnerability Vines AI