GRC Oversight

DORA

The Digital Operational Resilience Act sets EU requirements for the financial sector to manage ICT risk and remain resilient to operational disruptions.

Governed by European Union (Regulation 2022/2554)
What it is

What DORA is, in plain terms

The Digital Operational Resilience Act is an EU regulation that creates a unified framework for how the financial sector manages information and communication technology (ICT) risk and stays resilient to operational disruption. It covers ICT risk management, incident reporting, digital resilience testing, and, distinctively, oversight of critical third-party ICT providers, with contractual safeguards for outsourced services.

Typical effort & timeline

As a regulation it applies directly across the EU. Programs typically focus on maturing ICT risk management, building resilience-testing capability, and tightening third-party contracts and oversight.

Who needs it

Is this framework for you?

  • Banks, insurers, investment firms, and other EU financial entities.
  • ICT service providers serving the financial sector, including critical third parties.
  • Fintechs and platforms whose financial clients are subject to DORA.
About the framework

Key facts about DORA

  • Covers ICT risk management, incident reporting, and resilience testing.
  • Introduces oversight of critical third-party ICT service providers.
  • Applies to a wide range of financial entities across the EU.
  • Requires management of ICT third-party risk and contractual safeguards.

Public information about the framework itself. We don't claim certifications, assessment status, or authorizations for our own product.

With this platform

How we help with DORA

  • Map ICT risk-management requirements to tests and evidence.
  • Track third-party ICT risk and contractual controls.
  • Document resilience-testing and incident-reporting processes.
  • Reuse overlapping evidence from other security frameworks.
Step by step

Get and stay compliant

How the platform supports your DORA program, from first scope to ongoing monitoring.

Strengthen ICT risk management

Map ICT risk-management requirements to tests and evidence.

Manage third-party ICT risk

Track critical providers, contractual safeguards, and concentration risk.

Build resilience testing

Document digital operational resilience testing activities and results.

Report incidents

Operationalize and document ICT incident classification and reporting.

Representative areas

What DORA covers

Public, high-level control or requirement areas, for orientation, not a complete control list.

ICT risk management
ICT incident reporting
Digital resilience testing
Third-party ICT risk
Information sharing
Do it once

Reuse evidence across frameworks

DORA shares controls with frameworks you may already run. A passing test can satisfy requirements in more than one place, so adding the next framework means reusing work, not repeating it.

FAQ

Common questions about DORA

A broad range of EU financial entities, plus the ICT service providers that support them, including designated critical third parties.

Its direct oversight regime for critical third-party ICT providers and its emphasis on digital operational resilience testing.

Yes, on ICT risk and incident handling; DORA is the sector-specific regime for finance.

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