DORA obligations span ICT risk, incident management, testing, third parties and business operations. The mandate becomes urgent when an audit, regulatory change, incident or assurance request requires the organisation to prove how an obligation operates in practice.
Critical functions and their supporting dependencies cannot be traced in one evidence-backed model. The structural gap is the absence of traceability from obligation through process, owner, system, control, execution and retained evidence.
DORA requires financial entities to withstand, respond to and recover from ICT disruption, including governance of ICT third-party dependencies. Across the enterprise, assurance remains periodic and manual while operational change creates new gaps faster than review cycles can find them.
Connect critical functions, ICT assets, third parties, controls, incidents and testing. This enables a leadership team to act because change and assurance can be managed as connected operational work, with accountable remediation and evidence available by design.
- More complete registers, clearer resilience gaps and faster supervisory evidence assembly
- Faster regulatory impact assessment
- Earlier detection of control and evidence gaps
- Reduced audit and inspection preparation
- Defensible traceability from duty to execution
The EBA states that in-scope financial entities must maintain comprehensive registers of ICT third-party contractual arrangements.
European Banking Authority: DORA Registers of Information
DORA requires financial entities to maintain a sound, comprehensive and documented ICT risk-management framework and addresses incident management, testing and ICT third-party risk.
EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2022/2554