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DORA

DORA asks financial entities to manage ICT risk, including ICT third-party risk, through an integrated framework of controls, testing, registers and evidence. The opportunity is to connect those requirements to the functions, processes, systems and suppliers that regulated services depend on, so the register is a living view and not a standalone artefact.

Jurisdiction
EU
Regulator / Authority
European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA); national competent authorities
Status
In force
Relevant instrument / framework
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (Digital Operational Resilience Act)
Effective / key date
17 January 2025
Last reviewed
September 2026

9 ways to get ahead on DORA

See who owns a process, what it depends on and what a change will affect

  • Process architecture
  • Operating model visibility
  • Change impact analysis
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “We cannot quickly see who owns a process, what it depends on or what a change will affect”

When processes, roles, systems, risks and controls sit in one connected model, basic questions take minutes instead of analyst-days. Ownership, dependencies and impact can be seen together.

Prove your compliance with evidence

  • Continuous compliance
  • Control assurance
  • Audit readiness
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “We think we are compliant but cannot prove it”

Traceability from obligation through process, owner, system, control and retained evidence lets you show how a duty is met, whenever you are asked.

Map where operational failure would spread

  • Operational resilience
  • Critical service mapping
  • Dependency analysis
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “We do not know where operational failure will spread”

An end-to-end view of critical outcomes, dependencies, concentration, substitution, controls and recovery assumptions shows where resilience is strong and where to strengthen it.

Connect risks, controls, processes and obligations

  • Risk-control traceability
  • Obligation mapping
  • Connected assurance
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Risks, controls, processes and obligations are disconnected”

A connected process-centric risk model shows which processes create each risk, which controls operate within them and where coverage can be strengthened.

Turn regulatory change into process change

  • Regulatory change impact
  • Obligation-to-process mapping
  • Compliance agility
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “When regulations change, we cannot quickly identify every process, control, system and role affected”

Connected impact analysis identifies affected processes, systems, controls, roles and suppliers consistently, so implementation starts from a complete list.

Bring your DORA evidence together

  • DORA
  • Operational resilience evidence
  • ICT third-party traceability

In your words: “DORA evidence is fragmented across ICT, risk and operations”

Representing critical functions, ICT assets, third parties, risks, controls, incidents and testing evidence end to end gives one chain that supervisors and boards can follow.

Make governance shape what people do

  • Governance execution
  • Policy-to-practice
  • Control observability
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Our governance says what should happen, but does not reliably control what people actually do”

Governance that changes tasks, decision thresholds, approvals, escalation and evidence capture is governance you can rely on in operation.

Connect critical-infrastructure cyber duties to business services

  • NIS/NIS2
  • Essential service mapping
  • Cyber-to-service traceability
  • Cross-regulatory

In your words: “Critical-infrastructure cyber duties are separated from business services”

Connecting cyber risks, systems, suppliers, incidents and controls to the processes that deliver each essential service shows how duties support continuity.

IGX360 Insights supports mapping, evidence and assurance. Regulatory interpretation and accountability remain with the organisation.