Applicable since January 2025, DORA imposes a complete digital operational resilience framework on financial entities, and by ripple effect on their ICT providers. I run your compliance, from the register of information to resilience testing.
Inventory of ICT contracts, provider criticality, supported functions, mandatory clauses: the regulation's most structuring pillar, and the best starting point.
A documented risk management framework approved by the management body, critical asset mapping, risk analysis aligned with your essential functions.
Incident classification, regulator notification process within the deadlines, articulated with crisis management.
A testing program proportionate to your profile, from regular reviews to preparation for threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) for the entities concerned.
If your customers are financial entities, DORA reaches you through the contract: audit clauses, security requirements, exit and reversibility, data location. Anticipating these requirements turns an imposed constraint into a commercial argument against your competitors. And in an M&A deal touching the financial sector, the DORA framework is part of the due diligence scope.
Financial entities in the broad sense: banks, insurers, asset managers, payment institutions, investment firms, notably. And by contractual ripple effect, their ICT service providers, onto whom the requirements are passed through mandatory clauses.
The structured inventory of all contractual arrangements with ICT providers, with their criticality, the functions they support and the applicable clauses. It is the regulation's most structuring pillar in daily practice, producible on demand to the regulator.
With the register of information and the provider map: that is the exercise that reveals the real gap. Then a gap analysis across the regulation's five pillars, leading to a prioritized action plan run as a program.
5 pillars, 32 questions, 7 minutes. Walk away with a snapshot of your exposure and your priorities.
→Start the self-assessmentOne 30-minute call and you know where you stand against DORA and under what conditions to move forward.
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